ERP for the Food and Animal Feed Industry: End-to-End Control of Batches, Recipes, and Traceability
In the food and animal feed industry, many manufacturers struggle with complex recipe management, fluctuating raw material prices, and rising requirements for quality and traceability. At the same time, processes are often digitized only in isolated areas—leading to media breaks, extensive coordination effort, and a lack of transparency.
COSMO ERP Nutrition is an ERP system for the food and animal feed industry that extends Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central specifically with manufacturers’ requirements: recipes, batches, quality assurance, production planning, costing, and documentation access a central database and are mapped end-to-end within the ERP system.
This improves visibility into costs, quality and processes, eliminates isolated solutions, and reduces manual coordination. Thanks to complete traceability, all relevant information is readily available in a critical situation—from goods receipt to shipping. The data can also be used for audits.
As a solution within the Microsoft ecosystem, COSMO ERP Nutrition supports scalable end-to-end digitization. Data is centrally managed in the ERP system, integrated using Microsoft Fabric, and analyzed with Power BI. Extensions can be implemented flexibly with the Power Platform. This creates efficient business processes, a solid foundation for IoT scenarios, and for reliable day-to-day decisions.
With ERP Software for Food & Feed, Optimize Production Sequences, Cut Changeover Times, and Ensure Quality
Efficient production planning is crucial for food and animal feed manufacturers to ensure quality, safety, and profitability simultaneously.
With COSMO ERP Nutrition’s production planning for food and feed, you can efficiently manage production orders even with limited manufacturing resources. In addition to standard planning criteria such as quantities, dates, and lead times, the food manufacturing software also specifically incorporates industry-specific planning constraints—such as kosher requirements, allergens, or specific cleaning requirements. This significantly reduces changeover times, harmonizes production workflows, and ensures compliance with regulatory and quality requirements.
COSMO ERP Nutrition’s ERP software for the food industry is complemented by integrated workforce planning: it automatically matches team members qualifications and availability to routing requirements. You benefit from flexible, demand-driven shift planning, that reduces bottlenecks, and ensures process and product safety.
How COSMO ERP Nutrition Tackles Your Challenges
Integrated Batch Manufacturing: Manage Variants, Co-Products, and Traceability End-to-End
Integrated batch manufacturing in COSMO ERP Nutrition enables structured, end-to-end control of production processes in the food and animal feed industry. Co-products are systematically included, while shelf lives and batch information are consistently tracked across the entire value chain.
Demand-oriented, batch-specific material consumption ensures quality when using raw materials. By comparing planned versus actually used ingredients, you benefit from maximum transparency and control of recipes. At the same time, you ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Complete traceability of food and animal feed provides a robust data foundation for audits and well-informed decisions.
With COSMO ERP Nutrition, you create the basis for end-to-end production planning, targeted resource usage, and ensure regulatory requirements. The result: stable processes, transparent cost structures, and food manufacturing software that turns product variety into a competitive advantage—while strengthening trust among customers and authorities through verifiable compliance.
Features and Funtionallity
Integrated recipe management with versioning and batch-size conversion
Recipes are maintained in the Food ERP, versioned, and automatically converted to any batch/lot size—including the costing basis from raw material data.
Advanced batch management for food and feed traceability
Multi-level batch origin and usage records document goods receipt, production, and shipping end-to-end. Recalls are managed data-driven—fast, targeted, and traceable.
Integrated sequencing and graphical planning board
Optimize production sequences, capacities, and resources. Benefit from graphical visualization and drag-and-drop planning and control.
Planning restrictions such as best-before date (BBD), allergen criteria, and packaging formats
COSMO ERP Nutrition considers shelf life at delivery date as well as changeover-relevant criteria (e.g., allergen change) so planning and execution work seamlessly together.
Integrated quality assurance with inspection orders and generation of certificates of analysis (CoA)
Inspection orders, approvals, retention samples, certificate management, and audit trails run directly in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central—without media breaks.
Configurable costing scenarios including post-calculation
Scenarios support current costs, contribution margins, and actual costing —especially helpful with volatile raw material prices.
Automated resource and workforce planning
Plan your team and production resources by qualification, availability, and demand—including shift models.
Co- and by-products in the manufacturing specification
Define main and by-products and ensure transparent postings of residual quantities—including cost allocation and integration into inventory management.
Open interfaces & end-to-end platform approach on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Supports REST, OData, and Dataverse for integration with WMS, MES, LIMS, or EDI; extends reporting and automation with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate).
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Fully Integrated into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
COSMO ERP Nutrition integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and uses the central ERP database to support all core processes. Data silos between commercial departments and production-related teams become a thing of the past—everything relevant comes together directly in the ERP for the food and animal feed industry: recipes, batches, inspections, approvals, and planning information. This supports digitization not only in food production, but also in purchasing, logistics, and sales. Company data is always up to date and supports efficient, aligned processes without manual coordination effort.
Your requirements grow? With COSMO ERP Nutrition embedded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can add further Microsoft products such as Power Platform, Azure services, Fabric and Power BI, or Microsoft’s leading AI capabilities via Copilot. This creates a scalable platform that not only meets today’s requirements, but also sustainably supports long-term growth, internationalization, and increasing digitization demands.
COSMO CONSULT – Your Digitization Partner for the Food and Animal Feed Industry
An ERP project in food and animal feed production is not a software update you “just install over the weekend.” The project determines how well planning, shop floor, quality, and reporting will work together in the future. COSMO CONSULT supports you as an implementation partner—from the initial definition of the target state to stable operations—with proven project methodology and a focus on the Microsoft platform.
Our industry experts know the food and animal feed industry from many projects. From process analysis to stable operations, we support you end-to-end - with one clear goal: your company’s sustainable success. Right from the start, we systematically document the capture of processes, data flows, and challenges and translate them into a clearly defined, actionable target picture that fits your organization and growth plans.
Based on this, implementation follows with tailored configuration, integration, and testing. Hands-on training for departments and key users ensures fast adoption and confident day-to-day use. And after go-live, we remain at your side: with support and continuous development, we ensure that system, reporting, and integrations grow with your requirements. COSMO CONSULT helps you not only implement your ERP software for the food industry—but also make it a long-term success.
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