If You Got a Recall Notice at 2am,
Would You Know What Shipped?
Food and beverage companies operate under FDA and FSMA requirements with supply chains that span multiple suppliers, co-manufacturers, and distribution points. Lot traceability, recall readiness, recipe management, and multi-plant coordination all have to work together. TechWise implements Business Central for Food & Beverage companies with traceability, recall simulation, and compliance documentation built in from Day 1, not retrofitted after an audit finding.
● Microsoft Solutions Partner
● Food safety compliance · Mock recall testing
● Lot traceability · Recipe management
● Multi-plant coordination · Distribution operations
What We Hear From Food & Beverage
Four Gaps That Come Up in
Every Food & Beverage Engagement.
These are the problems TechWise encounters in every food and beverage engagement. The symptoms vary by company. The underlying gaps are consistent.
Traceability That Works When It Has To
“I don’t know how long it would take to trace every affected unit.”
Lot genealogy and chain of custody documentation are the difference between a four-hour recall response and a four-day recall response. Most ERP implementations enable traceability features. Real recall readiness requires configuration and testing that most partners do not deliver. TechWise includes mock recall simulation in every Food & Beverage engagement.
The Audit Documentation Problem
“Our auditors want documentation we keep in three different systems.”
SQF and FSMA audits require documentation that most Food & Beverage companies maintain across ERP, quality management, and paper records. Reconciling these before each audit consumes weeks of finance and operations time. Business Central configured correctly consolidates this into a single system of record.
The Recipe Problem
“Our master recipes are in spreadsheets that only one person understands.”
Formula management, catch weights, variable weight handling, and recipe version control are foundational for Food & Beverage operations and consistently under-configured in ERP implementations. When the person who maintained the spreadsheets leaves, the institutional knowledge leaves with them.
The Multi-Plant Blind Spot
“We have three production facilities and four inventory views.”
Food & Beverage companies running production across multiple facilities need real-time visibility across all of them. Most legacy ERP configurations treat each plant as a separate silo. Business Central done right gives the operations team one picture, across production, distribution, and co-manufacturing relationships.
Recall Readiness
Mock Recall in Four Hours.
Not Four Days.
Every TechWise Food & Beverage engagement includes mock recall testing as a standard deliverable. Lot genealogy is configured, tested against a simulated FDA recall scenario, and validated before go-live. The goal is that when the real call comes, the answer is hours, not a multi-day spreadsheet exercise. The Mock Recall Kit is available for Food & Beverage companies evaluating their current recall readiness.
Services for Food & Beverage
Five Practices.
One Partner for Food & Beverage.
For Food & Beverage companies, ERP and security are not separate projects. Traceability, recall readiness, and food safety compliance are architecture decisions that live in the ERP. Security and cyber insurance readiness follow the same implementation, built into the same engagement, not sold separately afterward.
ERP & Business Central
Traceability, Recall Readiness, and Recipe Management, Built In.
Business Central implementations for Food & Beverage companies with lot genealogy, recall simulation, recipe and formula management, catch weight handling, cold chain tracking, and multi-plant coordination configured from Day 1. Led by former controllers.
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Security & Compliance
Security and Compliance Configured Alongside the ERP.
Cyber insurance underwriters require documented controls, multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, tested incident response plans. Food safety auditors increasingly ask about cybersecurity posture. TechWise configures security controls as part of the implementation, not as a separate project after the ERP goes live.
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Managed IT
Production Floor IT as Reliable as the Line Itself.
Full-service managed IT for Food & Beverage companies with production facilities and distribution centers. Multi-location support, warehouse management integration, and the uptime production operations demand.
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Microsoft 365
FSMA Documentation Lives in Your Microsoft 365 Environment.
SQF and FSMA audit documentation, batch records, supplier qualification records, and corrective action documentation belong in a governed SharePoint environment, not in shared drives or paper binders. TechWise builds the document governance architecture that makes FSMA audits a retrieval exercise, not a search exercise.
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AI for Business Central
Copilot Is Already in Your Business Central Subscription.
Business Central includes Microsoft Copilot for purchase order suggestions, inventory exception surfacing, and demand forecasting assistance. For F&B companies managing hundreds of SKUs across multiple plants, these AI capabilities reduce the manual work that consumes operations team time. TechWise activates and configures these features for your specific workflows.
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Food & Beverage Margins Are Thin.
Your Technology Partner Should Understand That.
The conversation starts with understanding your operation, production, distribution, compliance posture, and where the traceability gaps live today. TechWise serves Food & Beverage companies from a team that has run mock recalls, configured traceability for FDA scenarios, and led ERP implementations for food manufacturers and distributors.
Tell Us What’s Broken.
We’ll Tell You How to Fix It.
Every managed engagement starts with a free assessment of your environment: no scope surprises. Tell us what’s broken, what’s keeping you up at night, or what you’re trying to build. We’ll tell you exactly what it takes and which model fits.