Food manufacturing software for producers who are not an enterprise

Batch costing that survives a price rise

Every ingredient carries its pack size and cost, so each formulation knows what a batch costs and what a unit costs out of it. Nested recipes mean an intermediate — a base, a filling, a dough — costs into every finished product built on it. One supplier increase reprices the whole catalogue instead of triggering a week of spreadsheet work.

• Cost per batch and per finished unit, with yield accounted for
• Nested formulations, costed all the way down
• Labour and allocated overhead for a fully loaded cost
• A target margin set once, with items flagged when they fall under it

Nutrition and ingredient labels from the same recipe

The ingredient statement is generated in descending order of predominance by weight, which is the order labelling law requires, and non-edible lines such as packaging are excluded automatically. A Nutrition Facts panel with daily values is calculated from the same formulation, so the label and the cost sheet cannot disagree — they are the same recipe.

• Ingredient statements ordered by weight, packaging excluded
• Nutrition Facts panel with daily values
• Printable labels, including shelf-life dating
• Barcodes for finished goods

Production driven by real orders

Standing wholesale orders and one-off purchase orders both feed the schedule, netted against finished stock and anything already frozen, so a run is only scheduled for what is genuinely short. Ingredient requirements scale with the run, which is also how you find out on Monday that Thursday is short of flour.

Cost of goods you can hand to an accountant

COGS, overhead allocation and per-item margin come off the same records as production, so the P&L reflects the week you are in rather than a reconstruction at quarter end. A QuickBooks connection lets your figures and your accountant’s sit side by side rather than being merged.

What it is not

It is not an ERP. There is no lot traceability, no HACCP record-keeping and no supplier-audit module, so a recall obligation or a certification audit still needs a system of its own. What this replaces is the costing spreadsheet, the production whiteboard and the order book.