Xentral ERP for Food & Beverage

Food start-ups, producers, and distributors use batch management, expiration date (BBD) control, recipe management, and EDI connections for grocery retail: all centrally managed within Xentral.

Yes, Xentral is well-suited for personalized products manufactured on a project basis. You can create individual bills of materials, manage custom items, and flexibly integrate them into your workflows.

Yes, Xentral enables detailed mapping of your production processes: from bills of materials and work instructions to time tracking. You can create production items with individual components, define work steps, and track in real time which production stage is currently active.

Yes, Xentral offers integrated time tracking and monitoring for every production order. Your employees can start and stop work times via tablet or MDE device, including material consumption and status updates.

In multichannel retail, the lack of centralized inventory management quickly leads to overselling, out-of-stock situations, or unnecessarily high safety stock levels. An ERP system for food retail consolidates all inventory data from POS, online shops, marketplaces, and EDI connections in real time. This ensures customers always see accurate availability, and orders can be assigned automatically.

Food retailers are legally required to provide accurate and complete information on allergens, nutritional values, and expiration dates. An ERP system with centralized product information management (PIM) allows you to maintain data correctly once and automatically distribute it to online shops, retail partners, and EDI interfaces accurately and in compliance with GS1/GDSN standards.

Many retailers lose margin due to faulty EDI messages (e.g., delivery notes, invoices). An ERP solution with integrated EDI monitoring checks all messages before transmission, automates corrections, and documents the entire process. This significantly reduces the risk of chargebacks and OTIF penalties.

EU food regulations require complete batch and expiration date traceability. With an ERP system for food retail, affected products and sales channels can be identified within seconds. Recalls, blocks, and reports are generated automatically across online shops, stores, and marketplaces.

Cold chains in food retail must be reliably maintained to ensure quality and avoid losses. An ERP system with integrated warehouse and shipping management plans temperature zones, optimizes routes, and monitors delivery times, ensuring freshness that arrives and margins that remain.

Especially in click-and-collect or delivery services, intelligent substitution rules are crucial for customer satisfaction. An ERP system can automate substitution logic and return workflows to quickly compensate for unavailable items and process complaints efficiently.