Food and beverage ERP, built for the way you actually run your business.
For food and beverage manufacturers who’ve outgrown the patched-together stack — and don’t want a six-month enterprise rollout to escape it.
You’re running on a patched-together stack — accounting in one system, lot tracking in a spreadsheet, route data in a separate tool, quality scattered across emails and spreadsheets. Here are three of the things it costs you every week.
Allergens. Foreign material. Mislabeling. One slip costs you a brand, a customer, sometimes the company. Mock recall in 60 seconds — finished goods plus raw material lots — turns the audit you’ve been dreading into a one-click drill. Allergen management and item specifications are built into production, not bolted on as a separate compliance system.
You see the gap when the books close — three weeks too late to do anything about it. Real-time profitability by SKU and customer, alternate costing models, and cost-overrun alerts before the month closes mean you find out while you can still act on it.
Trace events live inside production workflows — not as a separate compliance module that someone has to remember to update. From finished good back to raw materials and lots, in one click. The investigation that used to take a week takes minutes.
Our ERP isn’t a single module. It’s six integrated capability areas that work together — plus a layer of cross-cutting capabilities that span all of them. Below: a real look at what’s in each area. Not a marketing recap. The actual list.
Food companies don’t want generalist accounting software with food fields bolted on. You want a general ledger that knows what a lot is, what a recipe costs to produce, and what a customer is actually paying you per pound. Financial Management on Harvest is full Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — wired into your production data so cost, margin, and recall traceability live in the same numbers. No bolt-on. No reconciling between systems.
• General ledger — Records every transaction in your business.
• Accounts payable — Vendor invoice processing, three-way match against POs and receipts, payment runs.
• Accounts receivable — Customer billing, aging, statements, and customer credits.
• Bank reconciliation — Automated bank feed matching, multi-account, multi-currency.
• Fixed asset management — Acquisition, depreciation, disposal, and tie-in to EAM.
• Budgeting & forecasting — Operating budgets, cash forecasts, scenario versions.
• Cost accounting & profitability — Customer-level and product-level profitability.
• Tax & compliance reporting — Tracks your sales tax, use tax, and financial reporting.
• Real food-cost tracking — Lot-level cost roll-up tied to nutritional and allergen data, not just a fixed standard.
Most food companies are B2B. Your CRM should live next to your orders and your invoices, not in a separate system you have to keep in sync. Harvest CRM is native on the Business Central platform — a customer record connects to AP, AR, sales orders, and fulfillment without an integration hop.
• Account & contact management — Companies, contacts, parents/subsidiaries, and the relationships between them.
• Sales opportunity tracking — Pipeline, stage, value, owner, expected close — with reporting in the same Power BI as your operations data.
• Tier-based pricing — Customer-level price lists, contract pricing, and effective-date pricing.
• Customer-level profitability — Margin by customer, product mix by customer, payment-history risk view.
• Marketing list segmentation — Customer segments based on real transaction data.
Food supply chains break differently than general distribution. You have allergens that can shut a facility down. You have ingredient specs that change between vendors and lots. You have substitutions that have to be traceable. Supply Chain on Harvest is built for that — vendor specifications, allergen tracking, FEFO, and lot-level traceability live in the same data model as your purchase orders and inventory, not in a parallel quality system.
• Vendor management — Vendor master, certifications, performance metrics, approved-supplier lists.
• Item specifications — Food-grade attributes, allergens, certifications (organic, kosher, halal, non-GMO), shelf life, storage requirements.
• Allergen tracking — Allergen flags by item, vendor, and lot — visible in scheduling, picking, and labeling.
• Purchase order management — Multi-line POs, blanket orders, drop-ship, three-way match.
• Multi-location inventory — Real-time inventory across plants and warehouses.
• Lot tracking — End-to-end trace from raw material receipt through finished goods shipment.
• FEFO (First-Expired-First-Out) — Pick rules driven by expiration date, not just receipt date.
• Reorder point planning — Min/max, MRP-style planning, vendor-specific lead times.
• Inventory cost layers — FIFO, LIFO, standard, and average cost — by item or by location.
• EDI integration — Standard EDI transactions for trading partners (810, 850, 856, etc.).
Inventory accuracy is where most food businesses leak margin. The numbers in the system don’t match the pallets on the floor, and by the time anyone notices, you’ve shipped short, scrapped a batch, or paid for a recount. Warehouse Management on Harvest runs on Android-based mobile devices with FEFO picking, lot traceability, and real-time raw and in-process inventory built into the standard product.
• Mobile scanners — Industrial Android devices, supported under partnership.
• End-to-end lot traceability — Receipt → put-away → production → finished goods → shipment, on a single record.
• Real-time raw & in-process inventory — On-floor visibility, not next-day reconciliation.
• Bin & location management — Multi-bin, multi-zone, capacity-aware put-away.
• Cycle counting — Mobile counts, location-driven, by-item or by-zone schedules.
• Pick-pack-ship workflow — Order picking, packing verification, carrier integration.
• Mobile barcode scanning — Compatible with all Android-based scanners.
Food manufacturing isn’t discrete and isn’t classical process — it’s its own thing. You have recipes, not just BOMs. You have allergen substitutions that change cost and label compliance. You have yield tracking, batch records, and in-process QC on every run. Manufacturing on Harvest is built for that pattern, on the Food Premium tier ($115.50/user/mo) — without a generic “manufacturing module” pretending to know food.
• Bills of Materials (BOM) — Multi-level, version-controlled, with effective-date changes.
• Recipe management — Ingredient lists, percentages, substitutions, scaling rules.
• Standard costing — Material, labor, and overhead at the recipe and BOM level.
• Work orders — Production orders with linked materials, routing, and labor.
• Batch tracking — Lot consumption recorded in the production order, traceable both ways.
• In-process QC — Quality holds, sample plans, hold-and-release workflow.
• Yield tracking — Planned vs. actual yield by line, batch, recipe.
• Allergen-aware substitution — Substitution rules respect allergen boundaries by default.
• Production data collection — Mobile entry on the floor for runs, scrap, and downtime.
• Hold & release — Quality hold workflows tied to lot status and AR/shipping.
Most ERPs schedule by capacity. Food schedules by allergen, capacity, and waste — in that order. A peanut run before a tree-nut-free run will shut your line down for hours of cleaning, and a run sequence that ignores allergens isn’t a schedule, it’s a recall waiting to happen. Production Scheduling on Harvest uses allergen-aware batch sequencing — the schedule respects what your recipes say about cross-contact before it respects machine availability.
• Batch scheduling — Constraint-based scheduling that updates as conditions change.
• Allergen-aware sequencing — Run order respects allergen separation rules before machine optimization.
• Multi-line scheduling — Coordinate across multiple production lines and shifts.
• Changeover minimization — Sequence-aware, minimizes line cleans and waste.
• Constraint-based logic — Honors equipment, labor, ingredient, and quality constraints.
• Forward & backward scheduling — Schedule from due date or from start date.
• Visual scheduling boards — Drag-and-drop adjustment, with allergen and constraint visibility.
Most of our competitors are talking about AI. Ours is in production.
Handles inbound orders end to end. It captures orders from email, PDF, and EDI, validates them, applies pricing and customer-specific rules, flags exceptions for review, and creates the order in your system without a human touch. The orders that don’t need attention go through automatically. The ones that need attention get attention.
Processes incoming bills against POs and receipts. It performs three-way match, routes for approval, posts to the GL, and closes the loop without manual data entry. Edge cases come back to your AP team; everything else just clears.
Generates customer invoices, applies billing rules — tier pricing, contract pricing, volume rebates — and handles edge cases your AR team would otherwise spend their morning on, automated.
More agents are coming. Expense Agent and others are in development. AI agents are available as a per-usage add-on on top of either plan — Food Essentials or Food Premium. You pay for what the agents process, layered on your base subscription.
The current site buries a lot of what we do. We’re not doing that anymore. These capabilities cross every one of the six areas above — they’re the parts of the platform that show up everywhere.
Finished goods plus raw material lots. Run a recall simulation faster than most teams can find the spreadsheet. The compliance hour you’ve been dreading becomes a one-click drill.
Asset master, work orders, preventive maintenance scheduling, and downtime tracking. Embedded in Business Central, with a free starter plan available (2 users, 125 assets) — active today.
Out of the box. Production efficiency, inventory trends, customer profitability — already built, no separate analytics project required.
On-the-fly nutritional impact when you swap an ingredient. See cost and nutritional consequence before you commit.
Built for the people doing the work, not just the people watching the work.
Catch-weight items, weight-based pricing, weight-based costing. Standard, not an add-on.
Shopify integrates as a native connector for ecommerce. Standard EDI covers the trading partners you sell to — Costco, Whole Foods, Sysco, and the rest of the major NA retailers and distributors. Android-based mobile devices run the warehouse floor. The Microsoft ecosystem — Outlook, Teams, Excel, Power BI, Power Automate — is already in your tools.
You’ve seen the six capability areas, the AI agents, the cross-cutting capabilities, and the integrations. Here’s what it costs.
Perfect for food and beverage manufacturers. Everything in Food Essentials, plus the manufacturing functionality that runs your plant.
Bill of Materials · Standard Costing · Version Management · Production Planning · Production Execution · Machine Centers
Track and maintain your plant equipment, embedded right in Business Central.
Asset master · Work orders · Preventive maintenance scheduling · Downtime tracking
Food Essentials gives you accounting, inventory, lot traceability, and shipping — without the manufacturing functionality.
Includes: Accounting · Sales · Customer Management · Purchasing · Vendor Management · Inventory · Lot Traceability · Shipping · Reporting
• Harvest pricing includes Software Assurance — at no additional cost.
Production Order Batching · Multi Location/Line BOM versioning · “What if” alternate costing · Julian Date Lot Algorithm · Detailed BOM costing
Chain Customer Hierarchy · Advanced Pricing · Ship To Pricing · Advanced Discounting · High Volume Order Processing · Rapid Cash Application
Additional (contact for quote): EDI · eCommerce · Warehouse Management · Quality Control · Commissions · Rebates · AP Automation · Self-Serve Portals
We do our best to keep pricing simple. But as you know pricing can be a little tricky so read the fine print, and let us know if you have specific questions.
The pricing quoted above is based on US Dollars with an annual subscription billed monthly.
The pricing you see above includes the price of MS Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Most importantly, our pricing includes all upgrades. Help Desk support requires a Customer Care package.
We include a license of ClickLearn which documents key processes. This is ideal for training new staff.
If your business runs route delivery — bread, snacks, beverages, frozen, anything that goes truck to store — DSD completes the system. Same customers. Same products. Same books. Starts at $65/user/mo.
Implementation cost is additive. Pick the modules you need, pay for what you use. Each package starts at the base price below; complex deployments and multi-plant environments are scoped individually.
Get up and running with G/L, Payables, Receivables, Financial Reporting.
Integrate Purchasing, Inventory Tracking, Lot Trace, Location Management, and Shipping.
Plan for production, pick raw materials, record finished goods, track costing.
We don’t promise weekend rollouts. Food and beverage operations are too important for that. What we do promise is a clear plan, a real timeline, and a team that’s done it before.
Book a 30-minute demo. Real product. Real pricing. No discovery-call gating.
