11-part guide
Food and beverage manufacturers face a regulatory stack no generic ERP fully anticipates: lot traceability to the field, expiry-date enforcement, recipe scaling, catch-weight pricing, and...
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Food and beverage manufacturers face a regulatory stack no generic ERP fully anticipates: lot traceability to the field, expiry-date enforcement, recipe scaling, catch-weight pricing, and FDA recall readiness. Purpose-built vertical software often handles one of those well and the rest poorly. The eleven ways below...
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Every ingredient received gets a lot number. Every production order consumes specific lots. Every finished pallet ships with its lot attached. Odoo's Lot and Serial Number Tracking gives bidirectional traceability reports, where a lot was used and where it came from, in seconds. For a recall, you pull the affected...
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Best-before dates are not suggestions; they are inventory policy. Removal Dates and Best Before Dates in Odoo's lot configuration block expired stock from being picked for production or shipping. FEFO (First Expiry, First Out) routing is automatic: the system selects the soonest-expiring lot without warehouse staff...
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A recipe is a BOM. Odoo's Manufacturing module stores multi-level recipes with gram-level quantities, yield percentages, and allergen components. When a formulation changes, an ingredient substituted, a ratio adjusted, PLM versions the BOM with an engineering change order so production always builds from the approved...
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In food, a "batch" is a production run, a kettle of sauce, a vat of yogurt, a mixer load of dough. Odoo's batch and serial manufacturing creates one manufacturing order per production lot, assigns raw-material lots at confirmation, and records actual quantities consumed versus theoretical. Variance reporting catches...
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HACCP requires documented checks at critical control points. Odoo's Quality Control Plans attach inspections to specific BOM operations, pH check after pasteurization, weight check after filling, metal-detector pass before boxing, and gate the next operation until the check passes. Non-conformance triggers a...
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A rendering plant gets tallow and bone meal. A brewery gets spent grain. A juice press gets pulp. Odoo's By-Products configuration records every secondary output at the correct cost basis on the same manufacturing order that produced the primary good. Margin reporting reflects total value recovered; tax-grade yield...
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Food is priced by weight, invoiced by case, and stored by pallet. Odoo's Units of Measure handle layered conversions, kg to lb, lb to unit, unit to case, case to pallet, with rounding rules that prevent the accounting discrepancies a single-UOM system generates. Catch-weight items (variable-weight cuts) use...
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Refrigerated, frozen, and ambient stock cannot share a pick wave. Odoo's Inventory module supports storage categories and putaway rules that route each lot to the correct temperature zone at receipt, enforce zone segregation in pick strategies, and prevent a refrigerated item from sitting in a staging lane that is out...
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When the CFIA or FDA calls, you have hours, not days. Odoo's traceability report filters by lot across all documents, purchase receipts, manufacturing orders, internal transfers, sales deliveries, and exports a complete chain of custody in one click. Lot archiving and quarantine rules block affected stock from further...
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Shipping a pallet of frozen product requires a carrier that supports temperature-controlled lanes, pallet labels, and on-time pickup windows that do not slip. Odoo's Shipping Carriers integration, FedEx, UPS, DHL, generates temperature-class-aware labels, books carrier pickups, and tracks delivery status back into the...
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US and Canadian regulations require allergen declarations on the label and nutritional panels that match the actual formula. Odoo stores allergen attributes on raw-material products and surfaces them on the finished-good product sheet. QR/Lot codes on packaging print from the delivery order and link to the production...
Bonus
A food processor's ERP project fails for one of two reasons: wrong configuration or wrong partner. Seven checks separate a partner who has shipped food-industry go-lives from one who watched a webinar:
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