Production, order and inventory management for food and beverage distributors
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Light Manufacturing
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Key Supermarket Integrations
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Batch And Expiry Date Tracking
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Alternative Units Of Measure
Light Manufacturing
Set up BOMs to track the ingredients in your inventory and easily create production jobs. Cin7 tracks only the ingredients that you use, not estimates, to calculate unit costs precisely and eliminate your reliance on arbitrary waste allocation.
Key Supermarket Integrations
Our integrations with major supermarkets have EDI built in. That means we can get you selling faster, automate your order workflows and increase order accuracy without the need for third-party EDI software. Cin7 provides the most integrations out-of-the-box that food and beverage distributors need to streamline their business.
Batch And Expiry Date Tracking
Keep tabs on products that don’t sell in time, and trace products back to the specific supplier and invoice in the event of a recall. Cin7’s batch FIFO feature can also reduce batch tracking workload in some situations.
Alternative Units Of Measure
Cin7 lets you set up alternative UOMs to track inventory from their raw ingredients to finished product. For example, turn the bags of bulk ingredients you purchased into kilograms when you receive them. Then use other UOMs, like cartons, when it’s time to sell your finished products.
Common food and beverage industry problems that drive businesses to Cin7
We can’t easily manage the orders we submit to our many suppliers.
As a food distributor, you work with many suppliers to get the ingredients you need to make your products. Your current system doesn't centralize your purchases or integrate with your production processes. Cin7 lets you see when you're running low on ingredients, and allows you to place orders directly to suppliers based on planned production.
We can’t trace a product back to the supplier if there is a problem with our products.
You don't have the visibility or inventory management capacity to trace your products back to the ingredients you used to make them. As a food and beverage distributor, you need a higher level of quality assurance than other businesses. Cin7’s end-to-end visibility and batch tracking allow distributors to trace products from the unit sale back to the production job.
We need to know exactly how much we can produce based on what we have.
You have to purchase ingredients based on the amount of products you intend to make. With Cin7, you'll know how much inventory you can produce before you begin production. Cin7's Virtual Stock feature allows you to calculate the quantity you need to produce any number of products.
We need the flexibility to manage stock and orders as we sell to new kinds of customers.
You've discovered there's no such thing as a single-channel brand these days. You could manage orders when you sold to a small number of other businesses, but you've grown and you want to add new channels to sell direct to consumers. Cin7's integrations and built-in features give you a flexible platform to manage eCommerce, B2B eCommerce, EDI, and physical retail/franchise channels in one platform.