Food & Beverage Edition
ERP Engineered for
Food & Beverage Businesses
Batch traceability, recipe costing, expiry management, and compliance built in, not bolted on. NexWave gives food manufacturers and distributors one connected platform from production floor to final delivery.
NexWave, Live snapshot
- Batch/lot traceability Active
- Expiry date alerts Enabled
- Allergen warnings 3 alerts today
- Food safety audit log Up to date
- Supplier COA records 47 on file
Industry Challenges
The real cost of running F&B on patchwork systems
Food and beverage businesses operate under tighter margins, stricter compliance, and faster-moving stock than almost any other sector. Generic ERP falls short, here's where it hurts most.
Batch & Lot Traceability Gaps
A recall without end-to-end lot traceability turns a contained problem into a brand crisis. Manual batch records in spreadsheets can't give you a single-screen answer on "where did this ingredient go?"
Expiry Date & FEFO Management
Selling expired or near-expired product is a compliance and liability disaster. Without automated First-Expiry-First-Out picking rules and expiry alerts, warehouse staff rely on memory, and that doesn't scale.
Recipe Costs That Don't Reflect Reality
Ingredient prices change weekly. Yield losses vary by batch. If your standard cost recipes aren't recalculated against actual purchase prices, your margin reporting is fiction, and you're repricing blind.
Compliance & Labelling Complexity
Allergen declarations, nutritional panels, country-of-origin labelling, and MPI/FSANZ requirements touch every SKU and every batch. Managing this across recipe versions in spreadsheets is a liability waiting to happen.
Demand Volatility & Waste
Perishable products with short shelf lives punish over-production just as harshly as under-production. Without demand forecasting linked to production scheduling, you're alternating between wasteful over-runs and costly stockouts.
Disconnected Supplier & Quality Management
Certificates of Analysis, supplier audits, and ingredient quality records spread across email inboxes and shared drives mean QA teams can't close the loop between what was ordered, what arrived, and what was approved for use.
Implementation
Live in 8–12 weeks
Our F&B implementation team understands the complexity of batch manufacturing, compliance requirements, and multi-channel distribution, so go-live is smooth, not stressful.
Discovery & Planning
Weeks 1–2, Requirements workshops across production, QA, warehouse, and finance. Recipe structures, traceability rules, and compliance requirements mapped before configuration begins.
Core Configuration
Weeks 3–4, Recipe BOMs built, batch and lot tracking activated, FEFO rules configured, chart of accounts established, and historical data migrated from your existing systems.
Integrations & Training
Weeks 5–6, Shopify/WooCommerce inventory sync live, Xero connected, customer and supplier portals activated. Role-specific training for production, QA, warehouse, and sales teams.
Testing & Go-Live
Weeks 7–8, Full UAT including end-to-end batch trace scenarios, recall simulation, and FEFO picking walk-throughs. Hypercare support through your first full production cycle.
Platform Modules
Every module your F&B business needs, fully connected
NexWave is configured for the demands of food manufacturing, distribution, and D2C, with compliance, traceability, and costing built into every workflow.
Batch & Lot Traceability
Full forward and backward traceability on every ingredient and finished goods batch. Recall-ready reports in minutes, not days, all the way from supplier invoice to customer delivery.
Manufacturing & Recipe Management
Bill-of-materials style recipes with yield factors, co-products, and by-products. Works orders against production batches, with real-time actual-vs-standard cost variance at batch close.
Stock Control & FEFO Warehouse
Multi-temperature zone warehouse management with mandatory expiry date capture, First-Expiry-First-Out picking enforcement, and automated low-stock and near-expiry alerts.
Order Management & Trade Pricing
Sales orders, route delivery scheduling, standing/blanket orders for hospitality and retail customers. Tiered trade pricing, volume discounts, and customer-specific product lists, all in one place.
Purchasing & Supplier Quality
Purchase orders, goods receipts with QC inspection steps, supplier COA document storage, and non-conformance records. Close the loop between what was ordered, what arrived, and what's approved to use.
eCommerce & D2C
Real-time stock sync with Shopify and WooCommerce. Sell subscriptions, hampers, and gifting bundles direct-to-consumer while wholesale orders run through the same inventory pool, no double-selling.
Accounting & Landed Cost
Full general ledger with Xero integration, accounts payable/receivable, and accurate landed-cost allocation, freight, duties, and broker fees, down to each ingredient batch received.
Analytics & Waste Reporting
Real-time dashboards for margin per SKU, waste and shrinkage by production run, customer profitability, and demand forecasting trends, so every decision is grounded in live data.
Interactive
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Open a guided walkthrough on a sample screen, no login required. More module demos are on the way.
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Sales & fulfilment
Sales order to delivery
Pick list and delivery note
Walk through a sample sales order from save through warehouse pick to posted delivery, in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Purchasing
Purchase order to general ledger
PO, receipt, invoice, and GL
Walk through purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice, and general ledger entries in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing works order
Plan, WO, job card, and receipt
Walk through production plan from sales orders, work order, material transfer, job card, and finished goods in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Accounting
Accounting & financial reports
P&L, balance sheet, and dashboard
Walk through home, accounting workspace, profit and loss, balance sheet, and accounts dashboard in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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CRM
CRM pipeline
Lead to sales order
Walk through lead, prospect, opportunity, quotation, and sales order in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Analytics
Business intelligence
Dashboards and KPIs
Walk through selling KPIs, dashboard charts, and a customisable Sales Order Analysis report in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Get Started
Ready to see NexWave in your production environment?
Book a demo with one of our food & beverage specialists. We'll walk through traceability, recipe costing, and compliance workflows, specific to your business.
From NZ$415/month · 8–12 week implementation · 99% go-live success rate · No hidden fees
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