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The Key Ingredient for Food & Beverage Operations
Improvements You Can Measure
Achieving inventory control is essential for food and beverage companies to reduce spoilage, maintain margins, and sustain required quality standards. ScanForce WMS will help achieve:
Spoilage Reduction by up to
Manufacturing & Warehousing Cost Cutting by up to
Order Fulfillment Accuracy Increase to
Common Challenges in Food & Beverage Operations
Every industry has its own operational challenges, but in food and beverage, the stakes are especially high. Strict regulatory compliance, waste reduction, product quality, and complete traceability are not optional—they are fundamental to protecting customers, preserving profitability, and maintaining trust.
Managing Perishable Inventory
It is essential to carefully manage shelf life, expiration dates, and inventory rotation to minimize spoilage, reduce waste, and ensure products reach customers at peak quality.
Maintaining Lot Traceability and Compliance
Strict regulatory requirements demand complete visibility into lot numbers and production history, making accurate traceability essential for audits, recalls, and food safety compliance.
Balancing Inventory Levels
Companies must avoid both stockouts that disrupt production and overstocking that ties up capital and increases the risk of spoilage and obsolescence.
Ensuring Production Efficiency
Production schedules depend on accurate material availability, timely replenishment, and efficient workflows to minimize downtime, bottlenecks, and labor inefficiencies.
Achieving Order Fulfillment Accuracy
Errors in picking, packing, or shipping can lead to customer dissatisfaction, chargebacks, and increased operational costs, making accuracy a critical performance metric.
Maintaining Real-Time Inventory Visibility
Without timely and accurate inventory information, purchasing, production planning, and customer service teams struggle to make informed decisions that support profitable growth.
Better Traceability. Less Waste. Greater Confidence.
With ScanForce WMS, accurately and efficiently capture inventory movement, fulfillment, and warehouse activity with real-time operational visibility.
Lot Tracking
Lot, batch, and serial number tracking are vital. They allow complete traceability and transparency of ingredients throughout the supply chain. Capture this data every step of the way with reporting tools.
FEFO (First Expired, First Out) Rotation
Our food inventory management system allows you to allocate items to orders based on lot and expiration date criteria, ensuring the use of the oldest or most appropriate items first to help minimize spoilage.
Print Labels On Demand
While receiving incoming inventory or entering completed production on the scanner, efficiently print item or carton labels as needed directly from the scanner.
Minimize Work Ticket and Labor Errors
Capture material issued in production, the finished items, and the labor involved. Labor transactions can be reviewed and edited before being committed.
Barcode validation during inventory transactions
Gain better inventory and order fulfillment accuracy with barcodes. Each scan of an item, lot number, expiration date, and location is validated to ensure you have the correct item at the correct location every time.
Track Multiple Units of Measure
Keep an accurate count of items tracked in multiple units of measure (UM) depending on the process. UMs may include receiving by the drum, issuing to production by the gallon, or shipping by the case.
Built Around the Fulfillment Workflow
Support warehouse activity from receiving to shipping with barcode-driven operational visibility.
Receiving
Putaway
Picking
Packing
Shipping
Technology That Supports the Floor
ScanForce gives warehouse teams the tools to capture inventory activity in real time using handheld scanners, mobile workflows, barcode labeling, and live inventory visibility connected directly to the ERP.
Key Capabilities
- Mobile barcode scanning for inventory and warehouse transactions
- Mobile workflows with validation for receiving, counts, transfers, kitting, picking, and shipping
- Track lot/serial & expiration dates, pallets, and in-transit inventory
- Barcoded label generation while handling the product
- Tools for real-time inventory visibility and efficient management
Gold Crest turned 75 lost minutes a day into $85,000 back in six months.
See how ScanForce helped restore WMS reliability, improve team productivity and reduce costs without replacing existing hardware.