Follow ingredient usage
Connect supplier lots to the batches in which they were consumed.
Food processing
Connect the ingredient record to the finished batch.
Food manufacturers need to coordinate ingredients, production, packaging, and dispatch. Start with how you identify materials and batches, then define the records needed to review stock, shelf life, and production costs.
Built around your business
Turn daily activity into a clearer business view.
Food production connects ingredients, recipes, batches, packaging, and delivery dates. A consistent batch record helps the team see which materials were consumed, what was produced, which stock is awaiting release, and where finished goods were dispatched.
Plan around shelf life
Review dated stock when allocating orders and investigating ageing inventory.
Understand batch cost
Compare ingredient and packaging usage with saleable output and rejects.
Solution capabilities to scope
What your food processing solution should connect.
Build the scope around the records your team uses, the decisions it makes, and the exceptions it needs to manage.
01 / SOLUTION AREA
Ingredients and recipes
Discuss ingredient records, production recipes or bills of materials, quantities, and substitutions your process requires.
02 / SOLUTION AREA
Batch and shelf-life information
Define batch references, date records, stock rotation, and traceability needs across receipts, production, and dispatch.
03 / SOLUTION AREA
Production and packaging
Map ingredient consumption, finished output, packing materials, rejects, and other production losses.
04 / SOLUTION AREA
Quality and customer dispatch
Review quality-check records, release decisions, customer orders, and the documents that accompany deliveries.
Recommended starting point
SAP Business One
Review the workflow with LITPL before choosing the software. Core finance, purchasing, inventory, and sales can form the ERP foundation; sector-specific processing, quality, costing, and equipment connections may need configuration, add-ons, or custom development.
Explore the solution approach ↗An example operational workflow
How the work moves from start to finish.
Follow a typical transaction through the business. We adapt the sequence, approvals, and handovers to your operation during discovery.
- 01
Receive ingredients
Capture supplier lots, receipt quantities, date information, and inspection status before making ingredients available for production.
Key record
Ingredient lot record
- 02
Plan the recipe and batch
Select the recipe or bill of materials, batch quantity, and approved ingredients; record authorized substitutions where required.
Key record
Batch plan and ingredient issue
- 03
Produce and check output
Record consumption, finished output, rejects, and quality-check results against the batch.
Key record
Production and release record
- 04
Pack and date the stock
Connect packaging consumption, pack sizes, batch identification, and production or expiry dates to finished goods.
Key record
Dated finished-stock record
- 05
Allocate and dispatch
Select released batches using the agreed stock-rotation rules and retain the link to customer delivery documents.
Key record
Batch-to-customer dispatch trail
Reporting priorities
Know what to review.
Know which records support it.
Agree report definitions, date ranges, ownership, and source transactions before implementation. Use these industry-specific views as a starting point for your reporting scope.
- Ingredient and finished-goods batch balances
- Expiry and ageing stock review
- Recipe consumption, yield, and rejects
- Batch traceability and customer dispatch history
Implementation approach
A practical path from discovery to daily use.
Agree the scope and acceptance criteria first, then prepare the data and people who will run the process.
- 01
Discover the operation
Walk through a real transaction with your operations and accounts teams. Agree the priorities, exceptions, and reports.
- 02
Design and configure
Confirm product fit, responsibilities, approvals, and data fields. Scope any add-ons, custom workflows, and integrations.
- 03
Prepare opening data
Clean and map master records, opening stock, balances, and active transactions. Reconcile the data before migration.
- 04
Test and train
Run representative transactions and exceptions with your users. Verify calculations, reports, access, and operating procedures.
- 05
Go live and review
Agree the cutover plan and support arrangements. Review early transactions and resolve issues with the responsible team.
Before you decide
Your industry questions, answered.
Can the system support a batch traceability review?
Define the links from supplier lots through production and packing to customer deliveries, then test those links with sample transactions. Traceability reports, quality approvals, and recall procedures need an agreed scope and validation with your team.
What determines the implementation scope and cost?
The scope depends on your users, locations, opening data, approvals, reporting, and integrations. We review a representative workflow and agree what uses standard functionality, what needs configuration, and what needs additional development before preparing the proposal.
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