Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

for food and beverage manufacturers and distributors

When you use Business Central for food, tracking ingredients from source to shelf is easy. Efficient lot tracking for each individual ingredient sees all goods-in given their own lot number – those ingredients are used in recipes, and the end product is given a ‘finished goods’ lot number of its own.

This gives full forwards and backwards traceability, helping you identify which supplier provided the specific ingredients and which end products each ingredient went into. Meanwhile, lot attributes give you the chance to record extra information about ingredients or products, including allergens or country of origin – key for effective lot management.

Compliance is critical in the food and beverage industry, and Dynamics Food can help manufacturers and distributors keep on top of all the various certificates and standards like BRC, as well as allergen tracking.

Automatic notifications will remind you when certificates and other compliance documents are approaching renewal – and by storing electronic copies within Business Central, all relevant team members can play a proactive role in tracking regulatory requirements and making sure your business stays audit-ready.

Investing in Dynamics Food helps you ensure the highest level of quality control comes as part and parcel of your business operations. Whether it’s carrying out vehicle checks on receipt of goods, recording micro test results or restricting lots until they’ve received the green light on a positive release, our Clever Quality app helps make sure your end products pass quality checks every time.

(And all of this without having to go digging back through paper files and separate quality systems when that BRC audit comes around!)

Workflow automation can support you in completing and documenting the right checks at the right time. The result? Happy customers, minimal waste – and reduced associated costs!

With Dynamics Food you can seamlessly connect with over 100 trading partners – including all major supermarket chains – using built-in EDI integration. Effortlessly handle orders, invoices, credit notes, ASNs and more, all electronically and without manual intervention, making transactions smooth and efficient.

Streamline your dealings with retailers and ensure every transaction is accurate and timely. Say goodbye to delivery errors and wasted hours reconciling paperwork; orders come in swiftly and deliveries go out on schedule, positioning your business as a proactive and reliable supplier.

Dynamics Food’s enhanced food inventory management gives you complete visibility of your incoming goods, raw ingredients, packaging, products in production and finished products all in one place.

Accurately track your perishables and product shelf-life, record catch weight, align your stock with your real-life sales data and view inventory across multiple locations (including 3PLs) to minimise overstocking and stockouts, reduce waste and prepare for the months ahead more effectively – all to improve operational efficiency, help you deliver on sustainability promises and, ultimately, give you a healthier bottom line.

Dynamics Food looks at recipes, ingredients, methods, machinery and people to paint a reliable picture of what you can deliver when, helping reduce waste and heighten your chance of delivering on time and in full.

Integrated visual advanced production scheduling (VAPS) lets you group products together based on allergens, ingredients, tooling and more to minimise changeovers. Meanwhile, our Clever MES app lets workers log staff shortages, scrap and by-products in real time at your machines, giving you an accurate view of your true production cost and reducing reliance on paper-dependent processes.