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
Connect traceability, labeling, inventory, and customer orders.
Food and beverage manufacturers need lot, ingredient, supplier, production, label, inventory, shipment, and customer records connected so teams can trace affected work and respond from dependable evidence.
Food & Beverage systems: connect the records, decisions, and handoffs behind the work.
Recordswith accountable ownership
Handoffswith visible exceptions
Decisionssupported by useful evidence
What We Fix
Where Food & Beverage operations usually break down.
These are the points where useful industry systems often stop supporting the work around them. We trace the record, owner, decision, and downstream consequence before recommending a technology response.
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 more software. It is clearer work, dependable records, accountable exceptions, and technology the business can operate and improve.
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
Normal production and inventory workflows can capture batch genealogy, allergen controls, rotation decisions, and related evidence so teams are not rebuilding the record only when a review begins.
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, lot tracking, and documentation share governed source records, teams can spend less time reconciling spreadsheets and more time reviewing exceptions and improving the process.
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 with complex product, lot, and customer requirements
This operating context can shape the records, controls, integrations, and change sequence the business needs.
Companies subject to FSMA, HACCP, or FDA traceability requirements
This operating context can shape the records, controls, integrations, and change sequence the business needs.
Operations with perishable inventory, cold chain requirements, or allergen management
This operating context can shape the records, controls, integrations, and change sequence the business needs.
Organizations where a recall would be brand-threatening, not just operational
This operating context can shape the records, controls, integrations, and change sequence the business needs.
How We Approach The Work
Understand the current operation before changing the systems.
We begin with operating evidence, define the result and constraints, then sequence the smallest sound response. Launchpad is available when the work needs a governed Roadmap across multiple priorities.
Assess current state
We map your existing lot tracking, ERP data structure, cold chain monitoring, and compliance workflows. We quantify 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
Design the operating model
Before any configuration begins, we define 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
Govern delivery
We manage implementation 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
What We Review First
Start with the records and decisions carrying the most risk.
These areas help determine whether the right response is process clarification, data cleanup, integration, reporting, workflow improvement, a platform change, or a broader transformation Roadmap.
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.
Services That May Fit
Services that can support food & beverage operations.
These services address the ERP records, operational data, automation opportunities, customer workflows, and system dependencies behind the operating pressures above.
Service path
ERP implementation and modernization
Connect finance, orders, inventory, purchasing, fulfillment, and reporting around an owned system of record.
Explore serviceService pathData engineering and integration
Build governed pipelines, shared definitions, and operational reporting across ERP and connected applications.
Explore serviceService pathAI automation on governed data
Apply AI to documents, exceptions, decisions, and workflows only after access, ownership, and review controls are clear.
Explore serviceChoose A Practical Starting Point
Start with the operating constraint, then sequence the system work.
Bring us the part of the operation that is slowing down, producing unreliable information, or making a customer commitment harder to keep. We will follow the issue across the business before defining the work.