Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Food and Beverage Traceability

​​Lot tracking allows you to keep track of which customers received specific groups or batches of your products, which is critical for FDA and other regulatory systems. Order Time supports complete food and beverage traceability end-to-end, from manufacturer to customer, with automatically generated lot or serial numbers that can be based on expiration dates. You can track and backtrack all transactions where a lot or serial number was used, and the “Part Of” feature provides full lot genealogy within Work Orders for deeper production visibility. With full lot tracking and lot costing capabilities, Order Time helps you achieve FDA, ISO, or CFIA compliance while minimizing the risks and costs associated with product recalls.

Production Orders

Order Time supports Production Orders, which are a series of Work Orders and/or Disassemblies that are linked together. This provides visibility across multi-stage production processes and ensures tighter control over manufacturing workflows.

Bill of Materials

An important tool for manufacturers is the Bill of Materials also known as the BoM or recipe. The bill of materials is a listing of the raw materials and quantities of each needed to manufacture a finished product. It has multiple purposes including:

• Batch Quantities: Allows listed quantities of components based on a production batch rather than individual pieces. This is ideal for the food and beverage manufacturing industry, where production commonly occurs in batches.
• Pricing: A labor and overhead element can also be included in the bill of materials. By listing each raw material and the associated labor you can derive a cost for your products. Then you can compare that to the market price to ensure you will be producing a profit!
• Production: The BoM is the basis for manufacturing the product. It is used for pick-sheets and routing. It can also be used for raw material backflushing.
• Backflushing: Process of determining the number of parts that must be subtracted from inventory records. This number is computed by referring to the number of parts withdrawn from the inventory (and delivered to the shop-floor) and the number of parts assumed (according to the bill of materials) to have been consumed in a manufacturing line at one or more deduct points. - Business Dictionary

Purchasing: The BoM is used to forecast the raw materials demand based on the quantity of finished products that needs to be produced.

Lot Numbers

A lot number is an identification number assigned to a particular quantity, batch or lot of a product from a single manufacturer. Lot numbers can typically be found on the outside of packaging.

A product will typically have an identifier often referred to as a SKU (stock keeping unit). For example, a case of tomato sauce may have a SKU of SCS-123. In addition to the SKU, the case will have a lot number which may be different on each case. For example cases purchased in December may have a different lot number than those purchased in January but the SKU will be the same. A lot number may also be a date code representing the expiration of the product.

Food and Beverage Inventory Management

Order Time’s food and beverage inventory management software will give visibility into all aspects of your business to streamline processes and increase the efficiency of your workflow. You can control all sales orders, from generating quotes to tracking statuses and controlling all necessary approval. You can also control all roles and access in your business, administering what data is available to who. We’re proud to offer the best food and beverage software for inventory management.