Product Spotlight: How FoodPM Keeps Manufacturers in Control of Business
In food manufacturing, there's little room for error. With strict regulations and thin margins, every recall or missed order costs you time and money. Many companies juggle spreadsheets until something slips through the cracks.
But this doesn't have to be the reality. Univerus FoodPM offers a solution, combining every part of your business into one user-friendly source of truth that streamlines traceability, visibility, and financials.
Traceability: Know Where Everything Is, Always
Traceability is the movement of ingredients and products within your facility, and it's where most manual systems break down. Manual tracking means spending a lot of effort for little payoff as errors pile up.
FoodPM logs every step, so lot code management, raw and finished inventory, and shipping are all searchable in one connected system. With precise bin-level tracking, lot numbers, expiry monitoring, and automated reorders, you stay ahead of supply challenges instead of chasing them, and you manage the entire production process without sacrificing quality.
FoodPM is also hardware compatible, working with the scales, scanners, and printers already on your plant floor, so traceability data is captured at the source instead of re-keyed after the fact.
Visibility: See Every Part of Your Business
Visibility is the ability to see critical flows, reports, planning, financials, employees, compliance, and more across your operation. That starts with software built from the ground up to collect every point of data as it happens, from the plant floor to the front office.
With dashboards tailored to your business, you get real-time visibility into production, QA, inventory, and labour. Built-in inspections, checklists, and temperature logs keep your food safety program running smoothly, while automated calibration schedules and photo-backed audit trails make compliance a routine part of the day, not a scramble.
That visibility extends beyond your four walls, too. FoodPM's built-in EDI capability makes it seamless to exchange orders, invoices, and shipping data with retailers, so your outside partners see the same real-time picture your team does.
Financials: Embedded, Not Bolted On
Financials must be embedded, not a bolt-on. Companies spend countless hours reconciling, often because they don't trust the connection between their ERP and their financial suite. FoodPM has Microsoft's Business Central financial suite embedded directly within the product, so there's no separate system to reconcile against and no gap between operations and the numbers.
Just as important, financials need to be visible at the facility, product, and company level, not buried in a single company-wide total. Seamless Excel and Power BI integration puts those insights at your fingertips, so the numbers that help you manage your business are the numbers you actually see, and you can make decisions with fewer errors and greater confidence.
The FoodPM Mission: Democratizing Food Manufacturing Software
FoodPM has democratized the food manufacturing software space, making enterprise-grade software accessible to SMEs who could never justify the cost or complexity of a traditional ERP.
Sean Pindar, EVP of FoodPM, has worked closely with food manufacturers since 2019 to build an ERP that captures data from all sides of a business. Now powered by Microsoft's Power Platform and developed using Univerus EvergreenWorx, FoodPM is more intuitive and more accessible than ever.
Contact the FoodPM team to book a demo today.
