Food industry

ERP for the Food Industry – The Right Recipe for Your Digital Transformation

Empower your food production with end-to-end digitalization — from raw material sourcing to final delivery. BE-terna’s tailored ERP solutions ensure industry-grade compliance, maximum freshness, and seamless process integration across the entire value chain.

Solving Key Challenges in Food Production

Operating in one of the most demanding sectors, food manufacturers face tight regulations, short product lifecycles, and rising consumer expectations. At BE-terna, we deliver cloud-based ERP software tailored for the food and beverage industry — helping you boost agility, ensure compliance, and meet market demands with confidence.

Full Traceability and Compliance, Built In

Complete transparency across the supply chain: Meeting global food safety standards requires more than documentation. Our ERP systems enable batch-level tracking, integrated specification management, and automated quality controls — all embedded into your operational workflows for transparent, audit-ready processes. Whether you're handling raw ingredients or finished goods, you gain the visibility needed to meet legal requirements, pass audits, and confidently manage recalls if needed.

Planning and Production for Maximum Freshness

Precision and flexibility in every production run: With short shelf lives and fluctuating demand, precise planning is key. Our ERP tools support dynamic production scheduling, intelligent inventory rotation, and freshness-focused supply chain management — helping you deliver quality products with minimal waste. Seasonal trends, promotional peaks, and order variability can be handled with confidence, ensuring freshness and minimizing stock obsolescence.

Streamlined, Cross-Functional Process Integration

All departments connected in one system: Fragmented systems slow you down. We bring together procurement, production, logistics, and sales into a single, cloud-driven ERP landscape that improves efficiency, reduces errors, and keeps your teams aligned — from raw material to shelf. This ensures faster decision-making, real-time data availability, and fewer manual handovers, resulting in more agile and resilient operations.

Smart ERP Solutions for Food & Beverage Manufacturers

The food industry is diverse — from baked goods and ingredients to beverages and functional foods. That’s why BE-terna offers not just one, but two powerful ERP platforms: 

Each solution brings a wide range of industry-specific functionalities to the table — from batch traceability and recipe control to labeling, mobile logistics, and freshness-based planning. Together, they cover the complex and evolving needs of food production businesses.

With deep expertise in both platforms and years of experience in the food sector, our BE-terna consultants work closely with you to assess your goals, processes, and IT landscape — and help you choose the ERP solution that fits best.

Functional Highlights

BE-terna equips food producers with industry-specific functionality to boost productivity, ensure safety, and stay agile — all within one cloud-based ecosystem of your choice.

End-to-End Batch Traceability

Shelf Life & Inventory Optimization

Recipe & Label Management

Graphical Production Planning

Precise Costing & Yield Control

Mobile Processes & Smart Logistics

Innovation-Ready Architecture

Ensure complete transparency and compliance with full lot and batch management across all production stages. Capture origin, attributes, supplier data, and processing steps — all fully traceable and audit-ready to meet industry and legal requirements.

  • Full batch and lot traceability
  • Attribute and origin tracking
  • Integrated quality checks and audit support

Automate freshness-driven planning with precise shelf-life tracking, best-before date management, and intelligent stock rotation. This minimizes waste, ensures timely deliveries, and optimizes your inventory across the entire supply chain.

  • Shelf life and expiration control
  • FIFO/FEFO and freshness-driven inventory logic
  • Smart inventory planning and stock reduction

Control multi-level formulations and product specifications, including allergens, nutritional values, and palm oil content. Automatically generate compliant labels and texts with integrated label management and support for EU food regulations. Includes nutritional value tracking, ingredient-based cost calculations, and advanced text management for declarations, handling instructions, and label control.

  • Multi-level recipe/formula management
  • Nutrient, allergen, and palm oil tracking
  • Texts and labels aligned with EU food regulations

Adapt to changing demand and resource constraints with visual, drag-and-drop production planning tools. Easily reschedule and sequence processes, integrate external processing steps, and manage campaign or promotional production more efficiently.

  • Drag-and-drop planning interface
  • Real-time production sequencing
  • Support for external operations and seasonal peaks

Gain transparency over your true production costs with rule-based markups on materials, labor, and volume. Monitor yield and waste in real time, and evaluate supplier performance with embedded Lieferantenbewertung. Manufacturing instructions and production label management further support detailed cost breakdowns.

  • Granular cost structures and surcharges
  • Yield analysis and waste tracking
  • Supplier scoring and performance review

Use mobile tools to streamline warehouse and production operations, manage tour planning with automated freight cost calculation, and simplify container and packaging tracking (single-use and reusable containers, IFCO boxes, IBC containers). Integrated cloud integration connectors enable scale integration, and rules like consolidated storage rules ensure intelligent logistics flows.

  • Mobile BDE and logistics apps
  • Tour planning and freight cost automation
  • Scale integration and packaging management

Future-proof your operations with over 140 industry-specific enhancements. This includes AI-supported label comparison, simplified shop floor data collection for production data, document management with SharePoint integration, mobile checklists, and text management for declarations, EU regulations, and label control. Plus: support for EDI integration, cloud connectors for scale interfaces, and ready-made frameworks for freight planning and promotional pricing.

  • AI label comparison & checklist automation
  • Integrated SharePoint and document handling
  • EDI, cloud connectors, and pricing frameworks

Ready to start your journey with us?

In the food industry, managing perishable goods, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and maintaining full traceability are critical challenges. At BE-terna, we specialize in ERP solutions designed to address these specific needs, helping you optimize processes, enhance quality, and drive growth
Book a free consultation call today and discover how our tailored ERP solutions can transform your food manufacturing operations.

Talk to our Experts

Johannes Grall-Wiest

Inside Sales Specialist

As your first point of contact at BE-terna, I take the time to address your challenges, wishes, and goals in the digital environment. Whether it's ERP, CRM, BI, AI, Modern Workplace, Sustainability, and much more—together we'll find the right approaches and connect you with the right experts.

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Your Trusted Partner for ERP in the Food Industry

Why BE-terna?

Implementing ERP in the food sector takes deep domain knowledge and a hands-on partner. BE-terna combines technical expertise with proven methodologies to support your long-term digital growth.

  • Deep Industry Expertise: Trusted by bakeries, beverage producers, snack brands, and ingredient suppliers across Europe.
  • Dual ERP Options: Choose between Dynamics 365 and Infor M3 — guide d by our tailored consultation.
  • Scalable Cloud Platforms: Stay competitive with secure, flexible, and continuously evolving ERP systems.
  • Proven Implementation Methodology: Our EAGLE approach ensures your ERP project is efficient, transparent, and aligned with your business goals.
  • Local Support: European Reach: 10 countries, 2,100+ clients — and always a local team at your side.

As the importance of information technology continues to rise rapidly, it has become necessary to invest in this area or risk being left behind. With a wealth of experience, BE-terna is a reliable partner that actively helps to influence the future and focuses on implementation by means of professional project management

Ralph Buchholz, Owner MOGUNTIA Food Group
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Thanks to the professional cooperation, the consultants' extensive process know-how and, ultimately, the trusting way in which we dealt with each other, we were able to convert our company Bad Heilbrunner GmbH to M3, after the M3 Go-Live for our companies Hermes Arzneimittel GmbH (Germany) and Hermes Pharma Ges.m.b.H. (Austria), which had already been successfully carried out in 2014.

Anne Reinhardt, Project manager
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BE-terna’s experience in the food industry and the ERP solution from Infor M3 are the perfect combination for us – all from a single source.

Matthias Lauffer, CFO
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