Custom food and beverage ERP built around your lots, recipes and shelf life

A custom system can record the rules specific to your process: your own lot numbering, bulk and tank transfers, rework and repack links, co-product splits, and customer-specific labelling or release rules. Packaged food ERPs cover common cases well. The difference matters where your process departs from them, so test both on the same sample lots.

They capture the supplier lot at receiving, record the actual input lots used in every batch, give each output its own lot, and record finished lots on every shipment. Then they test it: run a mock recall from one lot, time it, and fix the gaps. Rework, repacking and bulk tanks are where chains usually break.

Any product where the date drives a decision: fresh and chilled items, dairy and cheese, bakery, produce, short-dated ingredients, and anything with a customer minimum remaining life. Lot-level rules let picking follow first expired, first out, block expired lots, and warn when stock cannot meet a customer's minimum shelf life.

Not always. First test whether your ERP records supplier lots, actual consumed lots, rework and shipments by lot, and whether it produces a two-way trace with quantities. If it does, you may only need configuration. If it does not, choose between an add-on, a package or a custom module around the ERP, and run the same mock recall on each.

A custom lot module can produce one without a full ERP: it links ingredient lots to finished lots and shipments, then reports affected batches, stock on hand and customers in one view. Timeline Digital builds such systems remotely from Islamabad, starting with a free pilot of 2 to 3 key modules that you test.

They assign a lot at receipt, carry it through every transformation and shipment, and store an expiry date that drives picking and blocking. The core data is similar across industries; the rules differ. Pharma and medical devices add stricter identification and validation duties, so those requirements are confirmed per project with your compliance adviser.

Buy a packaged food ERP when your process is close to standard. Add a traceability layer when your ERP is sound and only lot genealogy and recall reports are missing. Build when formulation, bulk, labelling or customer rules are what set you apart. Test each on the same sample lots. See ERP versus custom development.

Yes, when it is part of the scope. Allergens are tagged on ingredients and carried to recipes and finished products, and changeover rules can require a recorded check before the next run starts. The allergen matrix and cleaning rules come from your own food-safety plan; the system records and enforces them, it does not define them.

Timeline Digital does not publish prices for custom software, because every project is custom. The price follows the modules, sites, integrations and data migration you need, and is agreed in writing after you approve the free pilot. Any change outside the approved scope is agreed with you before extra work begins.

There is no fixed timeframe: the schedule for your food and beverage ERP is set from your requirements in the Plan step. A free pilot of 2 to 3 key modules comes first, you test it, and the full project starts only after you approve it. Long-term support under a service level agreement (SLA) follows launch.

You contact us and we agree 2 to 3 key modules, for example recipes and batches, then lot trace. We build them as working software, free of charge, and your team tests them on your own data. The full project starts only after you approve the pilot, and the final agreement is made after it.