Food and Beverage ERP for New Zealand producers

Define recipes with exact ingredient quantities, processing steps, and expected yields. Track every formula change with full version history. Create substitutions for ingredient shortages and scale recipes up or down for different batch sizes. For beverage producers, manage concentrate ratios, blending specifications, and carbonation parameters.

Nutritional values roll up automatically from ingredient data as you build recipes. Change an ingredient or adjust a quantity and the nutritional profile updates immediately. No separate spreadsheets, no manual recalculation. Supports energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, sugars, sodium, and additional declared nutrients.

Every raw material carries allergen declarations covering all FSANZ Standard 1.2.3 categories. Allergens roll up automatically through recipes to finished products. Production scheduling considers allergen wash requirements between runs to prevent cross-contamination. Supplier allergen status changes immediately flag every affected recipe.

Trace any finished product back to every ingredient lot, supplier, and receival date. Trace forward from any ingredient to every product it went into and every customer it shipped to. In a recall scenario, identify every affected batch, customer, and shipment within minutes rather than days.

First Expired First Out picking enforced automatically across warehouse operations. Every lot carries production date, best before, and use by dates. Configure customer-specific minimum remaining shelf life rules. The system warns before stock expires and blocks shipment of expired product.

Track active ingredient concentrations for beverages, supplements, and functional foods. Manage potency variations between ingredient batches and adjust formulas to maintain consistent finished product specifications. Essential for kombucha producers, supplement manufacturers, and functional beverage brands.

Define inspection plans at receival, in-process, and finished product stages with acceptable ranges and tolerance limits. Certificates of analysis generated automatically. Hold and release procedures prevent non-conforming product from shipping. Electronic signatures and full audit trail for every quality decision.

Manage bottling, canning, and filling operations where bulk product fills into individual consumer units. Lot attributes, quality data, and traceability inherit from the bulk product to every filled unit automatically. Scale Connect integrates weighing and counting equipment on the line.

Schedule production runs to minimise changeover time and contamination risk. Run light flavours before dark, non-allergen before allergen, and organic before conventional. The system considers wash requirements, flavour carryover, and allergen separation rules when building the production sequence.

Plan production against demand forecasts, existing orders, and safety stock levels. Dispatcher worksheets give your production planner a clear view of what to produce, when, and in what quantity. Factor in ingredient lead times, shelf life constraints, and seasonal demand patterns.

Generate nutritional information panels in the format required by Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Panels update automatically when recipes change. No manual recalculation, no risk of a label that does not match the product. Covers all mandatory FSANZ declarations.

Validate that product labels include all required information: ingredients list in correct order, allergen declarations, nutritional panel, storage instructions, and mandatory warnings. Catch compliance issues before labels go to print rather than during an audit or customer complaint.

Manage production for multiple brand owners with separate recipes, packaging specs, and pricing. Track customer-supplied materials, toll processing billing, and brand-specific documentation. Production scheduling handles changeovers between brands and products on shared lines.

Produce the same base product under different brand names with different labels, packaging, and pricing. Each brand maintains its own recipes, nutritional panels, and compliance documentation. Reporting and billing stay separated while production planning and inventory are shared.

Plan production around seasonal ingredient availability and demand peaks. Map harvest windows for fruit, dairy seasonality, and holiday demand surges into your production schedule. Build and manage buffer stock ahead of peak periods without overproducing.

Track actual versus expected yields for every production run. Identify where waste occurs: ingredient preparation, mixing, filling, or packaging. Compare yields across shifts, lines, and recipes to spot improvement opportunities. Power BI dashboards show trends over time.

Inventory, sales, purchasing, general ledger, and cost accounting all connected in one Microsoft platform. Power BI dashboards for real-time margin analysis by product, customer, brand, and channel. Excel, Teams, and Outlook natively integrated.