The food manufacturing ERP that takes the shape of your plant
Built for how food & beverage manufacturing actually runs
ORDERS: Ship the batch that fits the customer's shelf-life clause
Remaining life checked against each contract, four days for one buyer and 10 for the next, before the pallet is built.
QUALITY: Prove the changeover before the next batch runs
The cleaning and allergen check is a required task on the step, so the line can't move on until it's filled, and it stays attached to that batch for the audit.
INTAKE: Stop retyping the supplier's delivery note
A photo taken of the PDF on the dock automatically becomes lots, dates, and quantities. No more error-prone manual data entry.
STOCK: Count in pieces, invoice by weight
Catch-weight carried on the lot from reception to the dock, so what the floor counts and what the customer is billed stop being two different numbers.
COSTING: Quote at today's ingredient prices, not last year's
The recipe priced from the lots actually in stock, with material cost and margin written on the order before anyone confirms it.
TRACEABILITY: Trace a recall in real time, not after the fact
Upstream and downstream genealogy assembled out of what operators already declared, so the affected lots and the customers who got them come back in seconds.
Explore Bonx, the AI-native food and beverage ERP
Core modules
Everything food & beverage manufacturers need to run operations
Integration engine
Connect to your storefront, retailer EDI, accounting tool, scales on the floor & more
FAQ
Both. A mix, a dough, or a base carries its own use-by the same way a finished pallet does, so a five-day life on an intermediate is visible as stock and picked before the fresher one, instead of being found after it's gone.
Yes, and it's set per article. Perishable lots run first-expired-first-out, so Bonx prioritizes what's closest to its date and asks for an expiry at reception. For items where a date means little, like sugar or packaging, switch the article to first-in-first-out, and Bonx orders by the date it entered stock instead.
Bonx captures what the rule is built around: lot codes, the critical tracking events where food changes hands or changes form, and the key data elements attached to each one. Because operators declare them as they work, the records exist before anyone asks rather than being assembled afterward. More on what FSMA 204 requires of an ERP.
Often not. Several of our food customers run their control points, checks, and declarations in Bonx without separate HACCP or food safety software, because the checks sit on the production step instead of in a parallel system. What comes out is what an SQF or BRCGS audit asks to see. That said, if you already have a specialist tool your team trusts, Bonx connects to it rather than asking you to give it up.
Yes. A lot sits in a quarantine or hold location until someone releases it, and held stock never counts as available in Bonx, so sales can't promise it and picking can't take it. The release is a step with a name against it, recorded on the lot like any other operation.
Seconds, because the genealogy is assembled from what operators already declared rather than rebuilt from an archive. From one supplier lot, Bonx returns every batch it entered, every finished lot that came out, and every customer who received one, in both directions. That is what food traceability software has to do under pressure, and it only works if the data was captured during the work.
All three, and none of them. Bonx is one manufacturing ERP that configures to how you produce, rather than a different product per sub-sector. A bakery's semi-finished dough, a dairy's catch-weight cheese, and a brewery's tank-to-package yield come down to the same three mechanisms: lots that carry their own shelf life, units that differ between counting and billing, and a genealogy built as operators declare work. Whether or not your process is on that list, it's the same system underneath.
Yes, natively, carried on the lot from reception through to the dock. Pieces and weight stay attached to the same lot and follow it through every movement, so the count on the floor and the weight on the shipment come from one record rather than two.
Yes, and it's part of the deployment rather than a change request. Electronic data interchange (EDI) with the large retail chains is a standard pattern for our food customers, covering several message formats and several retailers, with despatch advice going back the other way.
10 weeks on average, and faster when the pressure is on. For example, Féroce went live in 42 days with zero operational interruption, shortly before a national television appearance multiplied their orders tenfold, and the traceability held. What it needs from you is one internal owner who knows how the floor runs, not a project team.
Bonx invoices natively, including legal gap-free numbering, line-level VAT, the PDF, and e-invoicing where it's legally required.
That said, Bonx is not a finance ERP. We think manufacturing ERP and finance ERP should stay separate, and Bonx is built that way on purpose. There is no general ledger, no accounts payable or receivable, no bank reconciliation, and no financial close. The coded invoice goes to your accounting tool, which posts it and keeps the books.
