The food and beverage sector in Penang, Malaysia, struggles with specific problems which don’t usually occur in other places. This situation requires creativity, especially through the combination of ERP systems run by artificial intelligence to achieve a better performance and compliance.
What Are the Specific Challenges Encountered by the Food & Beverage Sector?
Food safety regulations, shifting consumer trends, and the disruption of the supply chain are some of the remarkable challenges. Besides, labor shortage and increasing operational costs are hot issues which also affect other industries. Moreover, the constant adjustments in local rules have made things even more difficult.
What Is an ERP System to Do About These Issues?
An ERP system gives one comprehensive control over everything and real data is available. It helps to be in line with the local food safety rules, and also it makes supply chain management better. As a fact, it helps with cost control and also resolves labor efficiency through automation and AI integration.
With artificial intelligence, ERP systems can automatically alter to market changes or new regulations. That makes these systems necessary for Malaysian food and beverage businesses. The AI agent in the ERP boost forecasting for practical decision-making.
Guidelines for the successful ERP integration
For the successful run of an ERP system, firms need to plan in detail their customization needs, and allocate resources. Because of the intricacies involved, the incorporation of employee training, and change management to ensure smooth transition, thus limiting disruptions and maximizing benefits.
Why is Multiable’s ERP System Perfect for the Food & Beverage Sector?
- Custom Algorithm for Regulations: Keeps businesses compliant with ever-changing laws.
- AI-powered MRP: Streamlines materials planning for efficient production.
- Unlimited Warehouses: Offers storage flexibility to manage inventory fluctuations.
- Mobile Stock Take: Provides real-time inventory data, enhancing accuracy.
- User-defined Fields: Allows personalization to meet unique business needs.
What Benefits Does Multiable Provide in E-Invoicing?
Multiable supports e-invoicing by IRBM and offers free API calls for users subscribed to their system, unlike other vendors in Malaysia. This facilitates payment processing and improves transaction transparency, essential for enterprise resources planning initiatives.

What is Multiable ERP?
Multiable ERP is a cloud-native ERP widely adopted by business in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. With over 6,000 customers in the region, Multiable ERP gains positive feedbacks from customer across different sectors, from manufacturers, distributors, retailers, service providers to NGOs. The renowned no-code approach saves customer a big sum of customization costs and countless hours of implementation man-days.
What is LAIDFU (Let AI Do for You)?
LAIDFU is an AI tool for enterprise to build their own AI agents to perform various business AI tasks.
Proprietary EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Partitioning) technology eases CEO’s concern about trade secret leakage which often occurs in most AI agents / chatbots in the market.
EKP removes the hurdle of business AI adoption by most companies in using sensitive corporate data.
Powered by no-code approach, deployment of LAIDFU incurs far less developers (and development costs) in comparison with other AI tools.
LAIDFU empowers business, with or without an ERP system in place.
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