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Recipes, BOM & Materials

A structured product, recipe and materials system where a recipe knows its cost, its stock and its shelf life.

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Who it's for

Food, beverage, cosmetics and any manufacturer working from formulations.

The problem today

Recipes live in the head of one person and one protected Excel file. Stock, batches and expiry are tracked separately, if at all.

  • Recipes are stored in one employee's knowledge
  • Protected Excel files control production formulas
  • Raw-material stock is tracked separately
  • Packing materials are managed separately
  • Batch dates and expiry are not visible
  • Product variants are created manually
  • Recipe copies become inconsistent
  • Materials are not deducted consistently after production
  • Purchasing decisions are made without minimum-stock visibility
  • Expiring stock is discovered too late
  • Management receives long, unreadable inventory reports

What it does

Raw-material register

  • Material name, category and unit
  • Supplier and minimum stock level
  • A shared material pool where applicable across products

Batch tracking

  • Production date, received date and expiry date
  • Origin, quantity and the material reference
  • Batches support date and stock visibility per material

Shelf-life and date-integrity analysis

  • Flags expiring batches and slow-moving batches
  • Flags missing dates and illogical dates
  • Helps identify expiry risk before stock is overlooked

Packing-material hierarchy

  • Product Body, Closure, Labels and Inner Cluster categories
  • Examples from the hierarchy include metal can, glass jar and flexibles
  • Further examples include food boxes, cups and plastic body

Product variants

  • Multiple flavours and multiple sizes
  • Flavour × size combinations as independent product records
  • Bulk generation in one action, without repeated manual entry

Recipes and Bill of Materials (BOM)

  • A single recipe or bill of materials can combine raw materials and packing materials
  • Base recipe with linked variants
  • Recipe copying, with inheritance or reuse where supported

Stock deduction and planning

  • Stock can be deducted when production is confirmed, where the production and inventory workflow is enabled
  • Production orders with required quantities
  • Material requirement planning and material availability review

Bulk upload templates

  • Excel templates for recipes, BOM and products
  • Validation before the upload is committed
  • Cascading dropdowns and controlled master-data selection reduce invalid uploads

Raw Materials Analysis PDF

  • Executive verdict banner and headline metrics
  • Top stock positions and top shortages
  • Expiry watch and date-integrity findings
  • A prioritised action list

Inventory health report

  • Stock-health classification: healthy, low, out of stock
  • Organised within categories so management can act by area

How the process works

  • 1

    Register products and materials

    Set up products, raw materials, packing materials, units, suppliers and stock rules.

  • 2

    Create recipes or BOM

    Connect each product to the materials and packing components required.

  • 3

    Track batches and expiry

    Maintain quantities, dates, origins and stock-health information.

  • 4

    Plan and confirm production

    Review material requirements and deduct stock when production is confirmed, where configured.

  • 5

    Analyse and act

    Review shortages, excess stock, expiry risk and material integrity.

    • Benefits

    • Know the true material cost of every product
    • Reduce the risk of losing stock to an unnoticed expiry date
    • New product variants created in minutes instead of a day of copy-paste
    • Purchasing driven by real minimum-stock and consumption data

    Why teams choose it

    • Recipes, packing and stock in one place
    • Batch and expiry intelligence built in
    • Bulk-load your entire recipe library from Excel
    • An inventory report management will actually read

    Estimated saving: ~19 hours per month plus reduced write-offs from expired stock

    Earlier expiry visibility may help reduce avoidable material write-offs. No percentage is claimed.

    Estimated — a modelled figure based on a mid-sized operation, not a measured customer result. We will rework it with your own volumes.

    The estimate depends on:

    • Number of products, variants and materials
    • How recipes are maintained today
    • Batch and expiry record quality
    • Whether the production and inventory workflow is enabled
    • User adoption

    Works with

    Production Management

    Recipes may support production material requirements.

    Sales & Invoicing

    Products may be reused in sales documents where connected.

    Expenses & Cost Control

    Cost analysis may use materials information where configured.

    Reporting, Dashboards & Administration

    Stock and material information contributes to management reporting.

    Frequently asked questions

    Platforms running this module

    The same module runs in production inside each of these industry platforms.

    Element26 ERP

    Manufacturing ERP: engineering, production, quality and finance.

    Explore platform

    FinStack — Seafood & Food Factory ERP

    Landings, processing yield, cold store, sales and cost per kilo.

    Explore platform

    Crop to Carton Hub

    Farm to export: pack house, quality, containers and documents.

    Explore platform

    Connect every product to its recipe, packing materials, batches, stock and expiry risk.

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