Best Food Manufacturing Software for Startups
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What is Food Manufacturing Software for Startups?
Food manufacturing software is software developed specifically for food manufacturers. Food manufacturing software offers food manufacturers features like to ingredient/material tracking, food traceability, regulatory compliance, production scheduling, recipe management, quality management, ERP, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Food Manufacturing software for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Infor M3
Infor
Efficiently executing the complex processes of enterprise manufacturers and distributors. Infor M3 is a cloud-based, manufacturing and distribution ERP system that leverages the latest technologies to provide an exceptional user experience and powerful analytics in a multicompany, multicountry, and multisite platform. Infor M3 and related CloudSuite™ industry solutions include industry-leading functionality for the chemical, distribution, equipment, fashion, food and beverage, and industrial manufacturing industries. Staying ahead of the competition means staying agile. Our new capabilities bring improved data-driven insights and streamlined workflows to help you make informed decisions and take quick action. -
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OpenPro ERP
OpenPro, Inc.
Grow your business with OpenPro ERP solutions that can be deployed in the cloud or on your server. Our software supports most industries with a complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solution. As a provider of Business Management ERP Software, OpenPro excels with its Real-Time Solutions. From Accounting and Financial Reports to its MES software, MRP manufacturing and wholesale distribution inventory control software. The Business Management Software are all GAAP and international compliant. OpenPro is multi language (9 different) and multi currency. Another of the many business software solutions is a complete retail Point of Sales (POS) system, while distributors benefit from the supply chain management software. Built in time card management, Payroll and HRMS systems are integrated with the accounting manufacturing software. Customer Relationship management (CRM) is integrated to target prospects and convert them into customers quickly.Starting Price: $44 per user -
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EGS CALCMENU Web
EGS Enggist & Grandjean Software
EGS Enggist & Grandjean Software (EGS) is a leading provider of intelligent web-based software and business solutions for the food service industry. With over 30 years of combined technological and culinary expertise, we developed EGS CALCMENU Web, a complete solution with advanced features and smart tools to transform the way you do recipe management. We specialize in modernizing the way you do recipe management and optimizing your food service workflows. Our solution helps you manage food costing, recipe consistency, supplier pricing, HACCP, nutritional information, and even food wastage. EGS CALCMENU Web helps you manage food costing, recipe consistency, supplier pricing, HACCP, nutritional information, and even reduce food wastage. You can encode and store all your recipes in one place, accurately analyze nutritional information and allergens for all your dishes, instantly calculate and track costs when creating recipes, and comply with food law and labeling regulations.Starting Price: CHF1,190 per year -
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3iVerify
Primority
In a food manufacturing business, buyers, production, technical and quality staff all need to work as a TEAM to produce profitable, safe, and high quality food products. 3iVerify is an affordable, secure, cloud-based food safety management system that helps technical, quality and compliance managers tame the tidal wave of processes, procedures and paperwork that they deal with every day. We achieve this by having a simple, logical approach to key processes like supplier and material approvals management, supplier monitoring, document management and corrective action management. We believe that life is too short for spreadsheets and paperwork. We always work with our customers to ensure their system is bespoke and tailored to their specific business model. We can offer you only the modules you need, so you don't need to waste money on stuff you wont use. For further information please visit our website for a comprehensive introduction to the solution we offer. -
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Nutritics
Nutritics
Nutritics provide nutrition, allergen, cost analysis & menu management software to businesses, to help them gain new insights and unlock new opportunities from food information. Streamline New Product Development processes, comply with regulation and provide reliable information to your customers using Nutritics. Nutritics is the only system to be accredited to Gold Standard by EuroFIR for recipe calculation methods, enabling you to produce accurate food labels and recipe specifications in just a few clicks. Nutritics is used by thousands of forward thinking nutrition professionals and food producers in healthcare, elite sport, food service, food manufacturing, and education every day to help them make better decisions about food. We are dedicated to making food information valuable and more accessible to all those who need it. Combining nutrition science, food law and technology, Nutritics saves you time, money and unlocks new potential for your businessStarting Price: $21.00/month -
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Food Guard
Food Guard
Food Guard helps Small, Mid market and boutique food manufacturers digitize and modernize their food traceability and compliance processes. HACCP management and mass recalls can be incredibly costly for businesses that can't easily trace the source of origin. Detailed Tracing : We trace ingredients, recipes, and Finished/complex products from goods inwards through the cooking, packaging and dispatch processes. Digital Check lists :Upload and build multiple checklists based on location and facilities. Schedule and complete multiple checklists with ease, location, area, equipment and report on non-conformance's. - Easy fridge/storage temperature monitoring, multiple locations and sites. Set parameters and receive real-time alerts. Save up to 30% on - Labour costs and time versus paper-based approaches. - Make reporting simple and the auditing process easy. Achieve HACCP compliance with ease. Realize end to end traceability and compliance with ease.Starting Price: $65 -
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WinFDS
Food Decision Software
WinFDS by Food Decision Software is a powerful platform designed to automate the workflow of food distribution and manufacturing companies. It offers a core set of fully integrated modules that include order processing, pricing control, inventory control and purchasing, sales analysis, accounts payable and receivable, lot tracking and security. WinFDS empowers businesses to increase the efficiency and profitability of their operations.Starting Price: $15000.00/one-time -
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Minotaur
Minotaur Software
Minotaur Business System is a fully integrated business software system purpose-built for food, meat and beverage manufacturers and distributors. The Minotaur Business System helps make your growth easier. By brings together your plant, warehouse and office with core functions in one program, including inventory control, manufacturing, product development, quality control, lot traceability, order entry/invoicing, EDI, barcode label generation with weigh/label, scanning for warehouse management, POS, as well as accounting and financials. -
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FreshByte
FreshByte
FreshByte Software is a customer service organization that specializes in software for the wholesale distribution industry. Regardless of what products your company imports, manufactures, processes and/or distributes with FreshByte Software, you can streamline your operations and internal controls, ensure 100% product traceability, and get 100%-accurate profitability accounting in real-time, every time. We offer 24/7 Support, Weekly Online Webinars, and Training. Our goal is to make your customers successful. FreshByte Software’s Slotting feature allows you to trace where your inventory is located within the warehouse at any given moment. Slotting within FreshByte Software allows users to manage and report where items are within a warehouse by setting up slot locations and assigning items to them. You can review slots and what items or lots are assigned to them at the point of receiving. -
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Zupply
Zupply
Reduce costs and stress while increasing revenue and productivity with one complete system. Zupply is an all-in-one inventory management, ordering, and payment system that lets users transact transparently in real-time. Zupply is what foodservice operators need to be more agile and competitive now and into the future. Whether you’re a wholesaler, chef, or venue manager, Zupply can easily automate your admin tasks so you can focus on scaling your business. Created by wholesalers for wholesalers. Zupply helps you bridge the digital gap as the needs of your customers change. By signing up, you get increased efficiency with Zupply's all-in-one system. Get access to your shoppable customizable pantry with live pricing from multiple suppliers with automated notifications. We'll take care of your admin for you so you can focus on delivering high-quality food experiences. Get 24/7 visibility on product availability, pricing, and deliveries, so you can keep track of your business. -
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VistaTrac
VistaTrac
VistaTrac™ has been used in the meat industry for over 30 years and more than 50% of our customers are meat companies. Wholesale, foodservice, distribution, online retail, slaughter, and custom processing companies all find incredible value in VistaTrac. Weigh and tally loads and record vendor data. Compare live weights to hot weights and view receiving reports with shrinkage. Print carcass tags to create inventory, and eliminate kill-floor paperwork with a digital BSE Checklist and custom data collection. Record retained and condemned carcasses. Create custom slaughter orders with cut instructions for processing your customer's animals. Print customer logos and UPCs to provide maximum value. Foodservice JIT order processing. Print cut slips with table assignments and truck route numbers, process orders by the route and view the status of route fulfillment from the office. Verify routes by scanning all products at staging and creating pallet labels.Starting Price: $325 per month -
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Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is an end-to-end food and beverage ERP solution which is designed to meet the challenges and issues that are specific to food and beverage processors, manufacturers, and distributors.
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ParityFactory
Advantive
Each client is different, each factory unique, but all our clients find that ParityFactory Software pays for itself in twelve to eighteen months in the efficiencies it creates. Whether you’re a manufacturer or co-packers or a bit of both, whether your orders are from Shopify, an EDI, or all of the above, our Software was built for you. We’re proud of our record at delivering not just our software, but the actual solution to running your factory floor better. We’re proud to say there is no lot tracing software available that does a better job of automating food and beverage manufacturers tracing. Utilizing integrated scanners and printers, full lot tracing is available at the click of a button. Produce finished goods and create ingredient pick-lists dynamically. Get visibility into where goods are in the process and count goods in the midst of WIP steps as part of your overall inventory. From yield tracking to catchweight production scheduling to recipe management. -
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iNECTA Food
Inecta
Inecta provides mission-critical ERP software for the food industry. Inecta Food is the core system that is powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and has many modules customized for food & beverage businesses. Inecta services many verticals and sub-verticals within the food industry: manufacturers, distributors, agribusinesses, farms, produce growers, fisheries, seafood processors & traders, wine & spirits distilleries, and many others. Inecta Food has many features tailored for food companies: Financial Management, Purchasing, Sales, Inventory Management, EDI, Reports, Forecasting, Food Safety/HACCP Compliance, catchweight, recall management, and much more. -
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Produce Magic Software
Produce Magic Software
Produce Magic Software (offices in Arizona & California), strive to aid & service all in Fresh Produce and Perishables to have ALL the tools necessary for: the produce traceability initiative, PTI), real-time Inventory, Warehouse/Coolers, Shippers, Farms/Growers, Brokers, Packers, Repacking, Importers & or Exporters, Fresh Cut, Food Processors, etc. Some of these tools are: EDI, GTIN bar-coding including Walmart's new standard, automatic Pricing, COOL, iTrade/TruCommerce, Inspections, One Button Forward & Backward Recalls, Shared costs of Commodities/Lots or costing down to a specific Line Item, thorough Profit and Loss Reporting, with much more. Our software, Produce Magic, is highly flexible and customizable. We've found over the last 33 years, there is not one company that does business the same way, so our software can follow yours. For complete produce traceability, produce accounting, request a free live demo to see all of our capabilities! -
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SoftTrace
SoftTrace
The SoftTrace system is a configurable, transparent cost-effective software solution capturing critical smart data at every step of the manufacturing process. The SoftTrace system assists process optimisation, providing a Smart DataBridge to connect production floor process automation systems, ERP, MES & OEE, with laboratory analysis instruments and warehouse & raw material stock inventory systems, for a complete product & processing profile from raw material in to finished goods dispatch in one system. SoftTrace has being providing innovative Software solutions to the Dairy industry for over twenty years. Our experienced team fully understand the many challenges facing today’s dairy industry. At SoftTrace our default setting is to be problem solvers and solution finders, helping you optimize your business through every process step. -
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PRIMS
Focus Works
PRIMS (Production Recipe Ingredient Management Software) is a comprehensive food manufacturing software solution, giving customers the ability to take control of their production process. From receiving through shipping, PRIMS oversees every aspect of goods creation and provides them with a comprehensive view of the operation. Ingredients are tracked by Lot Numbers from receiving through production to shipping so that you know what’s in every batch and every finished good. This includes sub-mixes, consumed ingredients and packaging materials. Lot numbers can be auto-generated for both intermediates and finished goods. GFSI traceability and recall mandates can be satisfied in minutes, rather than hours. Non-compliant ingredients, raw materials, and finished goods can be tracked in less time and with less waste. PRIMS automates wet and dry ingredients such as flour, water, HFCS, oil, brew, and yeast draws. -
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Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage offers the tools to accelerate food and beverage manufacturers' global supply chains, help bring new products to market faster, and implement efficiencies across the board. Within a reliable and secure infrastructure, the platform offers proven food and beverage enterprise resource planning (ERP) capabilities across all major segments of the industry, including bakery, beverage, dairy, meat and poultry, prepared and chilled, and food ingredients, forecasting and demand planning, production planning and scheduling, shelf-life and seasonality management, recipe management, least cost formulation, networked business intelligence, modern UI and productivity tools.
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Icicle ERP
Icicle Technologies
Icicle's advanced food production ERP software amplifies success for small to mid-sized businesses. With proprietary smart automation technology, its unified approach to compliance management builds your team's capacity, simplifies operations, and improves productivity. Icicle ERP is designed to exceed the highest industry standards of safety and quality, delivering the edge you need to open new markets and focus on growth. Icicle was developed in collaboration with our users, delivering a comprehensive solution for the unique needs of small to mid-sized food and beverage manufacturers. Our commitment to customer success, expert support, and design excellence means that our software is constantly evolving to meet your pressing challenges. Our dedicated training and support team guides businesses of all sizes through today’s challenges and into future growth. -
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Terrantic
Terrantic
Terrantic helps growers, packers, and food processors increase margins by unlocking improvement opportunities in the data they already have. We love that every piece of food is unique, but this variability creates challenges when trying to optimize yield, throughput, and quality. Terrantic exists to solve that problem, it’s the first end-to-end operational decision-making platform designed exclusively for high-variability food environments. For growers, Terrantic uncovers performance insights at the lot and field level. For packhouses, it reveals more efficient production line layouts and storage plans. For sales desks, it enables better forecasting and scheduling based on demand. Automatically convert your production plan into a line optimized to handle it. Maximize throughput, yield, quality, and labor efficiency with our easy-to-use applications and clear dashboards. Evaluate profitability prior to fulfillment. -
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BRAINR
BRAINR
Brainr is a next-generation, cloud-native Manufacturing Execution System (MES) built specifically for food production environments that unifies real-time shopfloor visibility, production planning, quality control, traceability, and warehouse operations into a single intelligent platform designed to eliminate manual processes and paper records while increasing efficiency and compliance across the factory lifecycle; it connects inbound logistics, production execution, inventory and dispatch with ERP and supply chain systems, integrates machine and IoT data, and provides mobile-ready apps for operators and line managers so teams receive guided tasks, live dashboards, and execution feedback in real time while reducing errors and waste. It enables accurate production scheduling and dynamic rescheduling based on changing demand or resource availability, tracks yields, co-products, by-products, and losses with full batch traceability. -
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Cut+Dry
Cut+Dry
Cut+Dry is an all-in-one ecommerce and sales enablement platform built specifically for the foodservice industry that connects distributors, operators, and manufacturers with cloud-based order management, digital catalog, CRM, accounts receivable, and sales dashboards in a single system. It lets distributors centralize online ordering with rich product catalogs, customer-specific pricing, multiple order guides, rapid search and discovery, product recommendations, and AI-powered sales tools, while also enabling real-time invoicing, digital payments with customizable credit terms, autopay options, and delivery tracking to reduce manual work and accelerate cash flow. Cut+Dry integrates with more than 50 ERP systems to keep live data flowing and gives users tools for in-app, email, and SMS marketing and promotions to drive demand, plus branded mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences for customers. -
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FoodOps
FoodOps
FoodOps is a cloud-based food manufacturing traceability and operations platform that replaces paper-based systems with a fully digital factory backbone, enabling real-time tracking of ingredients, batches, and production processes with forward and backward traceability using digital tags that link procedures directly to inventory, helping teams respond to recalls in minutes rather than hours. It integrates quality, stock, production, documents, and compliance into one connected environment, giving manufacturers real-time visibility into operations and empowering teams to make faster, data-driven decisions while maintaining audit readiness with custom reports and dashboards. Built with an intuitive, no-code app studio, FoodOps lets users replicate and build their exact workflows and standard operating procedures, centralize documentation, automate schedules and action management, and streamline non-conformance handling. -
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Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is an end-to-end food and beverage ERP solution which is designed to meet the challenges and issues that are specific to food and beverage processors, manufacturers, and distributors.
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Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is an end-to-end food and beverage ERP solution which is designed to meet the challenges and issues that are specific to food and beverage processors, manufacturers, and distributors.
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V5 Traceability
SG Systems Global
SG Systems Global offers solutions for both Regulatedand Non-Regulated industries focused on Traceability, Batch Control, and Formula Control. Their platform integrates with ERP and MES systems to streamline production and improve quality. For Regulated Industries like pharmaceuticals and food processing, they ensure compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 and GMP standards through Electronic Batch Records (EBRs), Traceability, and Batch Control tools. Formula Control ensures accurate ingredient measurement and consistency, meeting regulatory requirements. In Non-Regulated Sectors such as manufacturing and bakeries, the same tools enhance efficiency without added regulatory overhead. The V5 Traceability system automates recipe management and batch tracking, ensuring smooth operations and quality across production stages. Their solutions reduce risks, optimize processes, and support scalability -
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S2K Food
VAI
The food industry is unique in many ways; inventory management and tracking is critical to comply with food safety regulations, and all business processes must be performed under tight time constraints. Lot and Date Tracking, Broken Case Unit Conversions, Catch Weight Pricing, Truck Routing, Flexible Contract Pricing, and Rebates, Promotions, and Billbacks are just some of the requirements that make the food and beverage industry unique. VAI’s ERP software for Food was specifically designed to meet the requirements of the food industry and to help businesses in this fast-paced environment compete by automating and integrating business processes across the entire organization and helping companies comply with food safety regulations. -
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FOOD-TRAK
System Concepts
Beyond the huge array of features in the core system, the FOOD-TRAK System offers specialized flexibility through its complete line of fully-integrated modules. Each module is designed to extend the system’s capability to meet the needs of specific types of food service operations, as well as integrate with hundreds of accounting, vendor, catering and POS systems. We are constantly working to improve and expand, paying close attention to the requests of our clients and adding new features frequently. We also offer software customization services to further enhance the system for virtually any specific client requirement. FOOD-TRAK is a true browser-based solution, using the latest Microsoft .Net technologies for the application and Microsoft SQL for the database engine. Users need only Internet Explorer on their local computer to access the system, which can be located on the company’s systems, or on our hosted data center systems. -
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ProSoftXP
ProSoftXP
ProSoftXP provides full access to real-time logistics, contracts, and accruals. ProSoftXP offers exceptional risk management tools with lot control and traceability capabilities built-in. Our logistics management system will provide an advanced, and integrated level of efficiency in your logistic and accounting departments. Building off of 30 years of software solutions across the agri-business spectrum, ProSoftXP cannabis management software offers a robust solution, with full traceability and lot tracking for each plant, compliant with the Cannabis Act requirements. ProSoftXP offers unique modular solutions for all your agronomy needs including monitoring of process manufacturing and product costing. A supplemental plant food analysis module enables the formulation of blends of nutrients with user-driven specifications. Manages the inbound or outbound multimodal movement of product or bulk commodities. -
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Aptean Food and Beverage ERP
Aptean
Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Our Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is an end-to-end food and beverage ERP solution which is designed to meet the challenges and issues that are specific to food and beverage processors, manufacturers, and distributors.
