Manual lot tracking
Spreadsheets and disconnected systems mean a recall triggers a fire drill instead of a trace. The FDA's 4-hour window doesn't leave room for manual reconstruction.
Food & Beverage
One recall can end your business. How ready are you?
Food and beverage manufacturers carry compliance risk that compounds every day lot tracking runs through spreadsheets. The companies that come out of a recall intact are the ones whose systems can answer the FDA's questions in minutes, not days.
$10M+: Average direct cost of a single food recall — before brand damage and customer churn.
3risks Launchpad captures
3roadmap steps
$10M+industry signal
What We Fix
Where Food & Beverage operations usually break down.
Launchpad captures the failure modes that create operating drag and places the technology response on the Roadmap: disconnected systems, weak records, manual handoffs, compliance exposure, and AI blocked by unreliable data. Metrotechs scopes and delivers the engineering work.
Compliance by exception
FSMA and HACCP requirements get managed reactively — documentation assembled before an audit rather than generated through normal operations.
Cold chain gaps
Temperature deviations go unresolved because monitoring is siloed from the ERP. Evidence of chain-of-custody is incomplete when you need it most.
What Gets Better
The outcomes Metrotechs designs around.
The goal is not software for its own sake. The goal is an operating stack where the right records, workflows, controls, and AI use cases are governed by systems your team owns.
Recalls become manageable instead of catastrophic
When lot-level traceability runs through your ERP, a forward-and-backward trace takes minutes. You know exactly which customers received which batches, which lots to hold, and what your exposure is — before the regulators ask.
Audits become evidence retrieval, not reconstruction
Compliance documentation is generated as a byproduct of normal production. Batch genealogy, allergen segregation logs, and FEFO rotation records exist automatically — not because someone prepared them for an auditor.
Inventory decisions improve with better data
Shelf-life optimization and perishable demand forecasting work when the underlying batch data is clean and structured. Spoilage drops. Overproduction drops. The system works with your production instead of around it.
Operations teams stop managing spreadsheets
When label generation, compliance documentation, and lot tracking are automated, the people who used to maintain those spreadsheets are free to work on higher-value problems. Most clients recapture 15–20 hours per week.
Manufacturing Sub-Industry
Food & Beverage manufacturers with system complexity hiding in daily work.
Metrotechs is a fit when the real problem is not one application. It is the handoff between records, approvals, production, fulfillment, finance, reporting, and customer commitments.
Food and beverage manufacturers, $10M–$150M revenue
Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.
Companies subject to FSMA, HACCP, or FDA traceability requirements
Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.
Operations with perishable inventory, cold chain requirements, or allergen management
Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.
Organizations where a recall would be brand-threatening, not just operational
Launchpad records this pressure, the evidence, owners, and risks on the Roadmap. Metrotechs scopes the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work required to address it.
How Launchpad And Metrotechs Work Together
Metrotechs and the client use Launchpad to develop the Roadmap and engineer the response.
Metrotechs and the client use Launchpad to structure the current state and record priorities, dependencies, owners, risks, and stage gates. Metrotechs then architects and delivers the AI, data, cloud, ERP, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance work the managed Roadmap identifies.
Metrotechs scopes the technology response to current state
We map your existing lot tracking, ERP data structure, cold chain monitoring, and compliance workflows. Metrotechs quantifies the gap between your current traceability capability and what a recall or audit would actually require.
- Recall readiness scoring
- Traceability gap analysis
- Compliance risk quantification
Metrotechs designs the operating model
Before configuration begins, Metrotechs defines how batch genealogy, allergen segregation, FEFO rotation, and label generation will work inside your ERP. The model is documented and agreed before implementation starts.
- ERP data model design
- Compliance workflow mapping
- Integration architecture
Metrotechs governs rollout readiness
Metrotechs governs AI-connected delivery against the agreed design. Every phase is validated against the recall readiness and compliance benchmarks defined in phase one — so the finished system actually delivers what was promised.
- Phased delivery governance
- Recall readiness validation
- Team enablement
Where We Start
The first areas Metrotechs inspects.
These readiness areas narrow the first assessment into concrete AI, data, cloud, ERP-connected, integration, workflow, reporting, and governance decisions.
Recall Readiness Assessment
Measures your ability to execute a full forward-and-backward trace within the FDA's 4-hour window. Identifies every manual step that creates exposure and translates each gap into dollar-denominated risk.
Cold Chain Gap Analysis
Reviews temperature logging, cold chain monitoring, and deviation response workflows against FSMA and HACCP requirements. Identifies where chain-of-custody evidence breaks down.
Compliance Infrastructure Review
Evaluates how your current systems generate, store, and retrieve compliance documentation. Identifies whether your records are audit-ready or assembled on demand.
From Industry Pressure To Roadmap
Start with the operating constraint, then sequence the system work.
Launchpad captures the operating constraint, practical AI opportunities, data dependencies, cloud control, ERP records, integration handoffs, workflow constraints, reporting gaps, owners, and risks. Metrotechs uses the Roadmap to scope delivery.