Food & Beverage Manufacturers
Recipes, allergens, batches, supplier certificates and costs kept in step across production, stock and the accounts
- 20+ years connecting business systems
- Works with the accounting, job and CRM systems you already use
- Fixed quote after a free chat
One Change, Every Record Updated
In a food or beverage business, the same facts live in many places: the recipe, the supplier’s spec, the allergen matrix, the label artwork, the batch sheet, the stock system and the accounts. When a supplier changes an ingredient or a customer asks about a batch, every one of those has to agree, and on paper and spreadsheets they often don’t.
It matters. Undeclared allergens are the main reason for food recalls in Australia: according to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), there were 197 recalls for undeclared allergens from 2021 to 2025 (FSANZ recall statistics). And if you manufacture, wholesale or import food, FSANZ says you must have a food recall system and know where your food came from and where it went (FSANZ food traceability).
We connect your production, stock and accounting systems so recipe, batch and supplier information is entered once and reaches everyone who needs it. Kenomont has 20+ years of experience building and connecting business systems, and we work with the software you already run.
Where the Week Goes
If several of these sound familiar, the problem sits between your systems, not in any one of them.
- A supplier changes an ingredient and someone has to remember to check the recipe, the allergen matrix and the label artwork
- A mock recall means pulling receiving dockets, production sheets and dispatch records out of folders and matching them by hand
- Supplier approvals and certificate expiry dates live in a spreadsheet that one person checks
- Temperature, cleaning and pre-start checks are on paper, and audit prep is a scramble
- Batch and use-by details are typed into the stock system again after they were written on the floor
- Retailer orders arrive through a portal or EDI and are re-keyed into your own system
- Production says one thing, stock says another and the accounts say a third
- Nobody can say what each product really costs since the last round of ingredient price rises
Why It Happens
Almost every one of those problems comes back to four things. Here they are in food terms, with the names you’ll hear for them.
Typed in again
Stops before it’s needed
Systems disagree
Numbers arrive too late
How We Help Food & Beverage Businesses
Start with the systems you already run; connect what they don’t do.
One recipe, one ingredient list
Batch tracing you can run in one search
Supplier approvals linked to purchasing
Food safety records that find themselves
Retailer orders without re-keying
Clean product and supplier data
Cost and margin by product
Practical AI for the paperwork
What It Looks Like When It’s Fixed
A supplier emails a changed spec. Before the next production run, the system shows every recipe that uses that ingredient, every allergen statement that needs checking and every label that has to be approved again. A person checks and signs off; nobody has to remember.
A retailer rings about a batch. Your QA manager types in the batch number and sees the supplier lots that went into it, the production date and checks, and every customer and delivery it went to, ready to send.
On Monday morning, you can see last week’s yield, waste and margin for each product and customer, from the same numbers production, the warehouse and the accounts all use. That is what a single source of truth looks like in a food business.
How We Work
One process at a time, alongside your existing systems.
Follow one batch from receiving to dispatch
We map how an ingredient lot becomes a finished batch, a label, a delivery and an invoice today, including the paper and the workarounds.
Pick the riskiest gap first
Usually recipe and label changes, or tracing and mock recalls. Fix the step where a missed update does the most harm.
Connect and automate
We build around the production, stock and accounting systems you already use, with alerts when something doesn’t match.
Test it against a mock recall
Your team runs a trace both ways, old and new, until everyone trusts the result.
Add costing and reporting
Once batch data flows, cost and margin by product and customer comes almost for free.
Not sure where to start? Our Process & Systems Audit maps how information moves through your business today and where it breaks.
Food & Beverage FAQs
The pattern is the same in every industry: information typed in again, stopping before it’s needed, systems that disagree and numbers that arrive too late. See disconnected business systems.
Related: Manufacturing · Wholesale & distribution · Process automation · Data cleansing · All industries
Where Does Your Batch Trail Go Cold?
Tell us what you make and where the paperwork piles up. We’ll tell you honestly what your current systems can already do, and what’s worth connecting. Or start with a free initial chat on our contact page.
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