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Every time we sit down with a new food company, we ask the same question: What’s driving you up the wall right now? And without fail, someone says “spreadsheets.”
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Dry January isn’t just a trend anymore; it’s a lifestyle shift. In 2025, 15.5 million Brits pledged to go alcohol-free for the month (Alcohol Change). Big brands are jumping on board: Lucky Saint is now the official beer of the Dry January challenge, and Majestic Wine saw a 600% spike in no- and low-alcohol sales since 2022 (The Drinks Business).
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Inflation isn’t just a buzzword; it's a harsh reality for UK food and drink manufacturers and distributors. In June 2025, food prices surged by 3.7% year-on-year—the fastest rate since March 2024, driven by climate-hit harvests, higher labour, energy, and packaging costs (The Guardian).
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Food manufacturing and distribution isn’t just about making, processing, and delivering delicious food and getting it out the door. It’s about managing inventory, ensuring compliance and food safety, optimising supply chains, and keeping consumers happy, to name a few.
Without a centralised system to handle all these complexities, food businesses can lose revenue, waste staff time and resources, and struggle to grow. As competition increases and technology evolves, many food and beverage companies turn to ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, especially systems designed for the food industry like Dynamics Food (powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central).
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Managing the switch from B2B to B2C with e-commerce won’t come naturally to most food manufacturers and distributors. So, what obstacles do you have to overcome and how can a Microsoft Dynamics 365 food ERP software help?
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Despite the pandemic causing uncertainty and chaos for some sectors, the food industry, however, has seen new records for November as consumers hope for a better end to the year.
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During these unprecedented times, COVID-19 has completely changed our daily lives. The way that consumers are shopping to get those essential food items such as milk, bread and cleaning items has changed due to lockdown and social distancing measures being put into place. Many more are turning to online deliveries to get what they need but encounter long waits for deliveries, face long queues outside the supermarket and some empty shelves due to panic buying and stockpiling.