Industries / Food & beverage
Food is the vertical the system gets tested on during one bad day. The rest of it is ordinary distribution or ordinary manufacturing; what makes it food is that a lot has a date, a weight that changes between making and selling, and a customer list you may have to reconstruct inside an hour.
Sub-models
Four shapes, and what each one actually changes.
Short shelf life makes date the primary sort order rather than a field on a card. Rotation is not a preference; it is the difference between selling stock and writing it off.
One input becomes several outputs of different value. That is a yield problem, and it is the sub-vertical where standard costing usually needs the most rethinking.
Recipe-driven production with allergen segregation, and packaging that changes the unit of measure between what you make and what you sell.
Batch production against tank and vessel constraints, deposits and returnable containers, and often excise reporting sitting on top of ordinary tax.
The processes, by name
If your QA manager uses the word, we implement the thing.
Every receipt, movement and shipment carries the lot, so a trace runs forward from a raw material to the customers who received it and backward from a complaint to the supplier batch. It holds because tracking lives on Business Central’s tracking layer and never on a text field somebody types.
Expiry captured at receipt, and picking that takes the earliest expiring stock rather than the nearest. Business Central supports this natively; the work is in the item tracking codes and the warehouse setup that make it happen on the floor.
Stock received but not sellable until it passes. Held stock has to be invisible to availability and to picking, or it gets promised to a customer while it sits in quarantine.
What went in, what came out, and what the difference was worth. Breaking one input into several outputs of different value is where a generic bill of materials stops describing the business.
Sold by weight, counted by piece. Business Central has no native catch-weight concept, so this is either a modelled workaround with unit-of-measure conversions or an extension. We establish which one your operation needs before quoting, and we do not present it as a setting.
Running the trace before anyone asks for it. If it takes a day in rehearsal, it takes longer than the regulator allows on the day it matters.
The part that gets tested
Food compliance is not a feature list. It is whether the records exist, and whether they can be produced on demand.
Critical control points recorded against the batch that produced the goods, so a check is tied to product rather than to a date on a clipboard.
The Canadian and US traceability regimes come down to the same question: one up, one down, and how fast. The system either answers it from posted records or it does not.
Which line ran what, in what order, and what was cleaned between. A sequencing question as much as a recording one.
Our apps that earn their keep here
Software we already ship for this work.
Receiving, put-away, picking and counting
A mobile barcode WMS that runs inside Business Central. Scanner-driven receiving, put-away, picks, moves and counts — posting through BC’s own codeunits, so the ledger is the only source of truth.
On Microsoft AppSource (opens the marketplace listing in a new tab)
License plating and container handling
License-plate management for pallets and containers: build, split, merge and move whole plates instead of line-by-line quantities.
On Microsoft AppSource
Disassembly and by-product yield
Disassembly BOM management and warehouse picking — break a finished item back into its components and post the yield correctly.
On Microsoft AppSource (opens the marketplace listing in a new tab)
Demand forecasting and replenishment
Per-location demand forecasts and service-level-driven reorder points, written into Business Central’s own planning fields and ranked by dollar exposure. Classical statistics, back-tested against a baseline they have to beat — deliberately no AI in the arithmetic.
On Microsoft AppSource (opens the marketplace listing in a new tab)
Every app above is implemented by the team that built it — one contract, one accountable engineering group.
How we deliver
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Most requirements are configuration, not code.
Build like it ships
Custom work held to our marketplace bar.
Run it with you
We stay through your first month-end close.
Straight answers
Including the ones where the honest answer is that we are not the right firm.
Not natively — there is no catch-weight field in the standard product. It is either modelled with unit-of-measure conversions, which works when the variance is modest and the pricing is simple, or it is an extension. Which one applies is established before quoting rather than during testing.
As fast as the tracking data is complete, which is a discipline question rather than a performance one. Where lot numbers are captured at every posting the answer is immediate; where they are captured on receipt and then lost during production, no amount of software recovers them.
Yes, and it is worth designing carefully. Breaking one input into several outputs of different value is a by-product and yield question, and the cost model you choose determines whether your margins by product are meaningful or merely arithmetic.
There is no such thing as a validated ERP for food, and anyone saying otherwise is selling. The regulations govern your records and your processes; the software either supports keeping those records properly or it does not. We implement it so it does, and your auditor still audits you.
The other three
Next step
Thirty minutes, not a deck. We’ll tell you whether standard Business Central covers it, whether one of our apps does, or what a build would honestly take.
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