One solution, everything under control: Batch management in the cloud with evident ingredients

Uncomplicated. Future-proof. Flexible. If you ask Shami Kaur Bola, Supply Chain Manager at evident ingredients, about the biggest benefits of an ERP solution in the cloud, these are exactly the terms that come to mind. However, many people are still worried and anxious about the cloud. So the question arises: how did evident ingredients deal with this?

If you take a look at the back of your shampoo, you might come across a product from evident ingredients among the ingredients: evident ingredients GmbH was founded in 2020 and is a manufacturer and supplier of cosmetic raw materials. What makes the company special is its endeavor to develop modern, natural and sustainable products. A dedicated research and development department supports the product team and advises on topics such as active ingredient concentration and effect.

The young company wanted its own processes to be just as professional as its own products. Instead of Excel chaos, the work was to be automated from the very first second using an ERP system with a suitable industry solution.

Choosing Yaveon as an ERP partner was easy for Shami Kaur Bola: she had already successfully completed an ERP project with Yaveon in the past. "Even in my first ERP project, Yaveon was the best partner I could have imagined," she recalls. "The collaboration was always good, professional and friendly. So when I chose Yaveon, I knew exactly what to expect from the new project."

The new ERP solution should fulfill the following requirements:

• Flexible access: All employees should be able to access the latest company data from anywhere
• Simple, intuitive operation and a self-explanatory user interface
• A coherent system without isolated solutions

"It is extremely important for us to be able to work from anywhere. That's why it was immediately clear that a public cloud solution was the only option for us. All we need is a good WLAN and we're ready to go," reports Ms. Bola. In order to be able to handle the desired processes automatically and clearly, evident ingredients opted for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP system and the industry solution from Yaveon.
It is fully integrated into the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP system and expands it with industry-relevant functions. With a focus on small and medium-sized companies, the solution includes numerous modules that can be purchased individually and expanded at any time.

evident ingredients relies on the following modules:

• Base
• Lot Management
• Manufacturing
• Sales and Purchase
• Scanning

Because evident ingredients wanted to be able to handle as much as possible itself, instead of a traditional project duration, a budget was agreed that evident ingredients could use for Yaveon services. "We were actually able to handle most of it ourselves. However, our contacts were always there for us in case of questions, change requests and adjustments," reports Ms. Bola. Of course, in the case of individual developments, evident ingredients always weighed up whether the costs and benefits were in the right proportion. If there were any doubts, a suitable compromise was always found. evident ingredients particularly remembers the advice: "The Yaveon advice was and is always very detailed. Our matters are dealt with quickly, which is particularly important to us."

The industry-specific ERP solution from Yaveon has now been in use at evident ingredients for some time. Have the initial requirements been met? Yes, says Shami Kaur Bola.

• Uncomplicated access to all data is completely flexible
• System is self-explanatory to use after brief training and a little practice
• The required content can be found immediately, the system functions as a seamless interaction.

Back to the topic of the cloud. Ms. Bola, how did you deal with the concerns about the cloud solution? "We had no concerns at all. We knew that Yaveon would give us the right advice and everything went well."

Today, evident ingredients is not only capable of acting and up-to-date, but also feels future-proof thanks to the cloud solution: Other modules that have not yet been connected will follow. And what could be better than a solution that can be easily adapted to your needs?