Modern food and beverage ERP supports growth for a fresh-frozen plant-based manufacturer
A fast-growing plant-based food and beverage manufacturer replaced disconnected accounting tools and spreadsheets with Harvest ERP, gaining full traceability, real-time inventory visibility across channels, and clear margin analysis by SKU and channel.
A fast-growing, privately held plant-based food and beverage manufacturer producing fresh-frozen products, soups, and prepared meals. The company sells through national grocery retailers, direct-to-consumer ecommerce, and foodservice channels, operating from a modern production facility with strict quality and shelf-life requirements.
As the company expanded its product portfolio and distribution footprint, its original systems could no longer keep pace with operational complexity. Key challenges included:
• Limited visibility into true product and channel profitability — with costs tracked across spreadsheets rather than directly in the system.
• Manual inventory and lot tracking — increasing risk around expiry management and recalls.
• Disconnected ecommerce and retail operations — leading to inventory mismatches and fulfillment inefficiencies.
• Production planning constraints — making it difficult to forecast demand and schedule batch runs efficiently.
• Increasing dependence on spreadsheets — for costing, production tracking, and reporting.
Leadership recognized the need for a modern ERP that could scale with the business while supporting food-specific requirements such as batch production, shelf-life control, and traceability.
The company implemented Harvest ERP, a modern, cloud-based ERP designed specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, replacing disconnected accounting tools and manual processes. Harvest ERP provided:
For operations, finance, and leadership — with Power BI included out of the box.
The solution was implemented in phases to minimize disruption, with a focus on rapid user adoption and clean data migration.
Within months of go-live, the manufacturer achieved measurable operational and financial improvements:
Most importantly, Harvest ERP gave leadership confidence that their core systems would support future growth, rather than limit it. Built specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, the platform brings the operational depth this customer’s complexity demands — without the integration project that comes with retrofitting a generalist ERP into a food and beverage business.
