ERP software that was built for food manufacturers. Not adapted from something else.
Most food manufacturers end up on ERP software designed for general manufacturing, then spend years configuring it to handle recipes, lot tracking, and food safety requirements. FlexiBake was purpose-built for recipe-based food manufacturing from day one --- production planning, inventory, traceability, compliance, and delivery in a single platform that understands your industry.
Why food & beverage manufacturers need purpose-built software
Your ERP doesn't understand recipes
General ERPs work with bills of materials. Food manufacturers work with recipes --- formulations with yields, scaling factors, ingredient substitutions, and nutritional calculations. You've been forcing your recipes into a BOM structure that doesn't fit, and every workaround creates another place where data can go wrong.
Traceability was bolted on, not built in
Your current system can technically track lots. But it wasn't designed for the food industry's traceability requirements --- FSMA 204 Key Data Elements, forward and backward traces through multi-ingredient production, and the speed required for a recall. You've built custom reports and manual processes to fill the gaps. They work --- until they don't.
Compliance is a separate project, not a byproduct
HACCP logs, allergen records, temperature documentation, audit preparation --- in a generic ERP, these are all separate processes maintained outside the system or in custom fields that nobody trusts. Audit prep takes weeks instead of hours. And every new food safety requirement means another bolt-on.
You outgrew spreadsheets but your ERP feels like a bigger spreadsheet
You moved to ERP to get away from disconnected spreadsheets. But if your production planning still happens in Excel because the ERP doesn't handle food scheduling well, and your costing is still a separate spreadsheet because the ERP doesn't understand recipe-based costing, you haven't solved the problem. You've just added another system to maintain.
The Food & Beverage transformation
- Recipes forced into generic bill-of-materials structures
- Lot traceability requires manual processes and custom reports
- Food safety compliance maintained outside the ERP in separate systems
- Production planning done in spreadsheets because the ERP can't handle food scheduling
- Food costing is a separate calculation, not integrated into production data
- Native recipe management with formulation, scaling, yields, and nutritional calculations
- Lot tracking built into every production step --- forward and backward traces in minutes
- FSMA, HACCP, SQF, BRC, and allergen compliance maintained as part of daily operations
- Production scheduling driven by orders, recipes, and ingredient availability in one system
- Real-time food costing from actual recipes, actual prices, and actual production data
How FlexiBake works for food & beverage manufacturers
Recipes that scale, cost, and label themselves
Store every recipe formula in one place. Scale batch sizes automatically. Calculate ingredient requirements for any production volume. Generate nutritional labels and allergen declarations from your formulas. When you change a recipe, everything downstream updates --- labels, costing, ingredient requirements. One change, one place.
Learn moreProduction plans generated from orders, not rebuilt from scratch
FlexiBake pulls orders --- standing and one-off --- and generates a production schedule with calculated ingredient requirements. Your team sees what to produce, in what order, with what materials, before the shift starts. Real-time output tracking shows progress against plan while the line is running.
Learn moreFrom ingredient to finished product. Every lot, every step.
Lot numbers assigned automatically at receiving and tracked through every production stage to final shipment. Full forward and backward traceability --- trace any finished product back to its source ingredients, and any ingredient forward to every product it touched. Traces completed in minutes, not hours.
Learn moreKnow what you have. Know where it is. Know before you run out.
Real-time inventory for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods. Connected to your production plan so ingredient shortages are flagged before production starts, not after you've committed a batch. FIFO enforcement. Low-stock alerts. Multi-location and multi-temperature-zone support.
Learn moreAudit-ready every day. Not just the week before.
FSMA 204 traceability. HACCP documentation. SQF, BRC, and GFSI audit support. Allergen tracking. Nutritional labelling. FlexiBake maintains your compliance records as a byproduct of running your operation. When the auditor arrives, you pull the report. When a retailer requires documentation, it's already there.
Learn moreRelevant platform modules
Recipe Management
One place for every formula. Scale any batch size instantly. When a recipe changes, everything downstream updates — prod...
Learn moreProduction Management
Know exactly what to produce, how much of each ingredient you need, and where every batch stands — before your team arri...
Learn moreLot Tracking & Traceability
Trace any ingredient forward to every product it touched, or any finished product backward to every lot that went into i...
Learn moreInventory Management
See what you have, what you need, and what's about to expire — in real time, not after a physical count. FlexiBake conne...
Learn moreRegulatory Compliance
FSMA 204, HACCP, SQF, BRC, and allergen compliance maintained as a byproduct of your normal operations — not as a separa...
Learn moreFood Costing
Know your real cost per unit — today, not last month. FlexiBake calculates product costs directly from your recipes, cur...
Learn moreReady to see FlexiBake for food & beverage manufacturing?
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