ERP for Food and Beverage Businesses
Food runs on thin margins and short shelf lives. One bad batch, one missed expiry date or one costing sheet that hasn't kept up with ingredient prices can wipe out a month's profit.
JMJ builds software for the food trade around that reality: recipes, batches, expiry and cost in one system, with editions for bakeries and dairies.
- Bakeries
- Dairies
- Snack and packaged food
- Spice and flour
- Central kitchens
What food businesses need from an ERP
A food ERP connects recipes, production, batch and expiry tracking, stores, sales and accounts, and works out what each batch actually cost. General billing or accounting software records sales and purchases but does not do the last two.
That gap matters most once you have more than one location, regular production runs or stock with a short shelf life.
- Recipes
- Multi-level bills of materials
- Costing
- Cost per batch from actual use
- Expiry
- Batch dates and FEFO picking
- Tax
- GST e-invoice
- Deployment
- Cloud, with a mobile app
- Support
- JMJ team in Kochi
Where food businesses leak profit
Recipe cost is worked out on an old spreadsheet
What it costsPrices are set on last quarter's ingredient costs.
What the system doesBatch costing from the ingredients each batch actually used, updated when purchase prices change.
Ingredients and finished goods expire unnoticed
What it costsWrite-offs nobody sees until stock-taking.
What the system doesBatch and expiry dates on every item, FEFO picking and short-expiry alerts.
Production is planned from memory
What it costsStock-outs of fast sellers, waste on slow ones.
What the system doesDaily or weekly plans built from sales orders and stock.
Sales orders and finished stock are in different books
What it costsOrders promised on stock that isn't there.
What the system doesOrders linked to production and live finished-goods stock.
JMJ products for food and beverage
One core, with editions for the trades that need their own workflow.
Food Pro ERP
Recipes, batch costing, production planning, batch and expiry tracking, stores, sales and distribution for food manufacturers.
Bakery ERP
Factory production, allocation to outlets, bakery POS, café and van sales for bakery chains.
Dairy ERP
Milk procurement, Fat/SNF farmer payments, by-product costing, cold chain and route sales for private dairies.
Field Force Connect
Order booking, collections and visit tracking for food sales teams on the road.
Food businesses we work with
Bakeries and confectioneries
From a single production unit to a chain with a central factory and outlets.
Dairies and ice cream producers
Procurement, processing, by-products and routes.
Snack and packaged food makers
Batch production, packing materials and distributor sales.
Spice, flour and masala producers
Raw material lots, batch costing, distributor and export orders.
Central kitchens and caterers
Recipe scaling and production plans for outlets or events.
Questions food businesses ask
What is food ERP software?
A business system built for food producers. It connects recipes, production, batch and expiry tracking, inventory, sales and accounts, and calculates what each batch cost.
Is Tally enough for a food manufacturer?
Tally handles accounts well. It is not built to plan production, manage recipes, cost each batch or enforce first-expiry, first-out picking, so growing food businesses usually add an ERP for operations. See Food Pro ERP.
Which JMJ product should a bakery or dairy choose?
Bakery chains use Bakery ERP and private dairies use Dairy ERP. Both are editions of Food Pro ERP. Other food manufacturers start with Food Pro ERP itself.
Does it support GST e-invoicing?
Yes. E-invoices are generated from the same sales entries.
Related products and pages
See your own product in the system
Bring one of your recipes to a 30-minute demo. The JMJ team takes it from purchase to production to sale and shows its cost and expiry at every step.
Prefer to talk? Call +91 7902 889 777, email info@jmjsoft.com or message us on WhatsApp.