Microsoft Dynamics for Food and Beverage
Ensure Quality, Traceability, and Compliance
Dynamics 365 provides food and beverage businesses with complete control over batch tracking, expiry management, and quality control. Respond faster to changing consumer demands while ensuring food safety and regulatory compliance. With tools to manage recipes, production lines, suppliers, and stock levels, you can streamline operations while maintaining consistent product standards and regulatory reporting.
In an industry where freshness, consistency, and safety are non-negotiable, Dynamics 365 provides visibility across your entire production and distribution process. Track ingredients back to their source, automate food safety protocols, and respond quickly to recalls. Integrated forecasting tools help align production with seasonal demand, and mobile access enables teams to manage operations on the go.
Key Benefits
- End-to-end traceability across the supply chain
- Batch and expiry tracking for food safety compliance
- Automated production planning and order management
- Real-time stock visibility to reduce waste and overproduction
- Integrated quality checks and compliance documentation
- Streamlined supplier and recipe management
Aptean Food & Beverage for Business Central
Industry-Specific Functionality, Built on the Business Central You Know
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central provides food and beverage businesses with a strong, scalable ERP foundation. Aptean Food & Beverage extends that foundation with deep, purpose-built functionality for food manufacturers, processors and distributors — covering bakery, dairy, beverages, meat, poultry and seafood, fresh produce, confectionery, snacks, spices and ingredients and more.
Built natively on Business Central and enhanced with built-in AI, Aptean adds the industry-specific capabilities food businesses need to manage recipe complexity, ingredient variability, allergen control, catch-weight, lot traceability and compliance. You retain a single source of truth, a familiar Microsoft user experience, and seamless integration with the wider Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
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Key Benefits
- Bi-directional ingredient and lot traceability: trace from raw material to finished product and back again, with full recall readiness and audit-ready reporting
- Allergen management and HACCP-aligned food safety controls embedded across procurement, production, warehousing and dispatch
- Batch, expiry and shelf-life management with FEFO picking, automated quarantine, and tools to balance supply and demand to reduce food waste
- Production planning, scheduling and forecasting tailored to food manufacturing, including multi-level BOMs, co-products, by-products and rework
- Built-in AI to automate repetitive tasks, surface operational insights and support faster decision-making across the business
- Recipe and formula management: version control, scaling, substitutions, yield calculations and full visibility of nutritional and allergen impact at the formula level
- Catch-weight handling: actual weights captured at goods receipt, production and dispatch, automatically calculated and tracked through to invoicing and customer pricing
- Quality control workflows including hold and release, quality testing, certificates of analysis and non-conformance tracking integrated into production and warehousing
- Supply chain connectivity: EDI integration, customer and supplier portals, and grower or producer settlement support including grade-out and pack-out pricing
- Native Business Central integration: one platform, one data model, one user experience, with full access to Power BI, Power Automate and the wider Microsoft ecosystem
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IBM for Food and Beverage
IBM watsonx empowers food and beverage organizations to ensure quality, safety, and supply chain resilience—while adapting quickly to changing consumer demands. With AI and machine learning tools, watsonx enables end-to-end visibility, smarter forecasting, and faster decision-making from sourcing to shelf.
In a sector where traceability, compliance, and freshness are critical, watsonx helps producers monitor ingredient quality, manage inventory lifecycles, and predict supply chain disruptions. By unifying data across farms, facilities, and distribution centers, food businesses can automate compliance checks, reduce waste, and ensure consistent product standards—all while enhancing sustainability and operational efficiency.
Key Benefits
- AI-powered traceability and quality assurance
- Real-time batch tracking and expiry monitoring
- Forecasting tools to align production with seasonal trends
- Automated compliance and food safety documentation
- Inventory insights to reduce waste and streamline logistics
- Scalable data integration across suppliers, recipes, and facilities