Meat Processing ERP for Australian plants

Most Australian mid-market meat processors run Dynamics 365 Business Central with meat-specific extensions. Equerra implements Business Central with two extensions: Yaveon 365 for lot management, catch weight, quality assurance, FEFO, traceability, and manufacturing specifications, plus EQMeat for carcase tracking, kill sheet integration, cool store management, yield analysis, DAFF Export Control Act 2020 risk management compliance, and export documentation. Larger processors sometimes use CSB-System, Infor, or SAP. Fixed-price implementations start from AUD $80,000.

Yaveon 365 ties HACCP Critical Control Points directly to production steps across the kill floor, boning room, and packaging lines. Every CCP decision is logged with electronic signatures and a full audit trail. Hold and release procedures are enforced at the lot level, so nothing ships without passing the required checks. When DAFF or AUS-MEAT auditors ask for records, the system generates them in minutes rather than days of manual assembly.

Yes. Yaveon 365 provides extended two-way tracing that links every retail pack back to the animal, farm, kill date, and grade. Lot attributes carry animal ID, supplier, kill date, and grading data through every split and merge as a carcase breaks down into primals, sub-primals, and retail cuts. EQMeat adds carcase-level tracking from receival through breakdown. In a recall scenario, you identify every affected lot, customer, and shipment within minutes.

Yaveon 365 handles catch weight natively in both purchase and sales documents. You buy whole carcases at actual weight and sell variable weight cuts at carton level. Scale Connect integrates weighing equipment on boning lines so actual weights are captured as each piece comes off the line. Those weights flow through to invoicing, inventory valuation, and yield reporting without manual data entry.

EQMeat integrates with the NLIS (National Livestock Identification System) system. Animal IDs are captured at receival and carried through kill, grading, and breakdown as lot attributes in Yaveon 365. This gives you a complete chain from the farm NLIS (National Livestock Identification System) tag through to the finished product lot number, which is exactly what DAFF and export market auditors require.

Yaveon 365 Joint Production handles the reality that one carcase produces multiple products: primals, offal, fat, bone, and renderable material. Each co-product and by-product gets its own lot with inherited traceability. Cost apportionment follows configurable rules based on market value, weight, or fixed allocation. Yield tracking compares actual output against expected yields by supplier, grade, and season.

EQMeat covers DAFF Export Control Act 2020 risk management compliance workflows, including inspection integration and AUS-MEAT audit readiness. Export documentation is generated automatically based on destination market rules, covering China (GACC), US (USDA/FSIS), EU, UK, Japan, Korea, and Middle East protocols. Every lot carries a full audit trail with electronic signatures from livestock intake through slaughter, cutting, packaging, and shipment. Halal and Kosher certification tracking is built in.

Equerra fixed-price meat processing implementations start from AUD $80,000 for smaller single-site operations. Mid-sized plants with kill floor integration, boning room tracking, multiple species, cold chain management, and export workflows typically fall in the AUD $150,000 to AUD $300,000 range. That includes Business Central licensing, Yaveon 365, EQMeat, data migration, training, and go-live support. We publish indicative pricing on our pricing page rather than asking you to get in touch.

Most Australian meat processing implementations run four to eight months depending on the complexity of your operations and the number of sites. We phase the rollout to minimise disruption, starting with core financials and inventory before adding kill floor integration, boning room tracking, and export documentation. Peak season is never the cutover window. Your team trains on real data before go-live.

EQMeat manages cool store operations including chiller and freezer allocation, aging schedules, and temperature zone tracking. Yaveon 365 Warehouse Management adds FEFO picking rules so the oldest stock ships first, cold chain zone management, and load carrier tracking. Mobile scanning on the floor means your cool store team works from handheld devices rather than paper.

Yes. Yaveon 365 Manufacturing Specifications support species-specific boning and cutting patterns with their own BOMs, routings, and yield targets. Each species carries its own grading rules, cut patterns, and cost models. You can run beef, lamb, venison, and goat through the same plant with full separation in the system. Species is tracked at lot, carton, and pallet level through to export.

Grower payments are calculated based on configurable settlement models including grade, weight, schedule price, and pool arrangements. Settlements run automatically on your payment cycle, with full transparency for growers through reporting and optional portal access. No more manual spreadsheets or end-of-week reconciliation. Every settlement links back to the specific animals, kill data, and grading records.