Food Manufacturing and Traceability ERP Software

Ideal for food manufacturers

Food manufacturers face challenges in managing production needs due to diverse ingredients. Traditional systems fall short for modern food production, requiring robust manufacturing and ingredient tracking. Wherefour's start-to-finish traceability™ prevents contaminated products from reaching the market.

Wherefour's software supports private-label, co-packing, or in-house beverage production. It manages R&D, production, inventory, quality, costing, BRC/SQF traceability, FDA compliance, state reporting, planning, scheduling, and distribution.

Wherefour's flexible production module lets you design a custom workflow for product production or packaging that matches the process you are already doing. Overhead, like labor or unexpected costs for a specific production run, can also be added and included in COGS automatically.

Unlike many traditional ERPs, Wherefour's platform lets you create variable results from each batch, or even run a disassembly process (perfect for meat or produce processing) where something is purchased and broken into new ingredients that are then used in other products.

Everything you need, in one system.

MRP & Forecasting

Determine what material you need now and in the future quickly and easily, while factoring lead times, reorder points and all the activity in your business. Create new purchase orders for replenishing inventory with a single button click!

Traceability

Track everything used in your product business, including the user who did the transaction, the date and time, and all the associated costs as well. A button click generates full traceability reports showing material still in your facility and what went to customers.

B2B Portal

Our customizable B2B ordering portal lets you give customers access to their own orders, standing orders and invoice history. You control what products they can order and what prices they pay. Wherefour can even apply promotional pricing based on the time of year or purchase volumes.

Automation

Whether you sell products through ecommerce, put them into distribution, or a combination of both, Wherefour's integrations and workflow help you automate the more time-consuming aspects of your business, such as order entry and fulfillment.

Production

Wherefour’s work order-driven production module makes it easy to customize your workflow to what meets your needs. From consistent, daily production to production needs that are driven by your daily customer orders, we’ve got you covered. COGS tracking means that your true production costs are just a click away.

Inventory

With Wherefour’s inventory and lot tracking capabilities on the job, drill into any item in inventory to see on hand amounts, status, cost and traceability aspects. Pull inventory for production based on FIFO, FEFO, LIFO or user-selected lots and transfer inventory between locations with a couple of clicks. Wherefour will send you automatic reorder, wastage and expiration notices. And yes, we can handle catch weights!

Compliance

Keep inventory, production and compliance data in one place, accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world. Upload, store and “tag” an unlimited number of compliance documents, such as COAs, lab test results, photos, scanned notes, PDF files, spreadsheets and more. If you’re using a mobile device, use the camera to snap an instant record and store it with the rest of your data.

Purchasing

Track the suppliers and true cost of each purchase as it is checked into inventory. Wherefour will send you automatic email alerts when inventory items are below your reorder thresholds or is about to expire. We'll even create POs automatically for your preferred suppliers.

Food Inventory Control

Custom (and automatic) lot code, barcode or serial number sequences that incorporate batch date, expiration date, julian date, facility, location, etc.

Automatically pull ingredients and supplies via FIFO, FEFO, LIFO or on a per-batch need.

Print GS1, Code 128 or Code 93 barcodes for product, inventory, package or pallet labels.

Automatic alerts for expiring products or ingredients reaching low levels.

Food Safety / Compliance

Recall and production trace reports show which customers got which products (with lot codes!) with one-click.
Upload and maintain COAs, bills of lading, photos of deliveries, or other compliance paperwork digitally in one system with searchable tags for easy recall when needed.
Design custom QA tests and attach results to stock lots or production runs.

Accounting

Directly integrate with QuickBooks® Online, QuickBooks® Desktop, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics or Xero.
Sync customer/vendor records with your accounting system.
Export invoices and POs to your accounting system.
Easily create journal entries for COGS, COGM, or inventory purchasing and usage.

Loved by our customers

Wherefour gives us the confidence to process and track big and small orders with ultimate confidence every time. It’s so easy to use, it’s worth every penny we spend on it.

Kristen Mumm, Production Manager

The traceability and certification compliance that Wherefour makes possible guarantees that our future is bright. Look for us at a few national chains soon.

Ryan Cornilsen, President

Wherefour has everything we need and is affordable. I can travel and still know what is going on. The system automatically lets me know if I need to place an inventory order, and I don’t have to check it manually.

Diana Cortes-Blanquicet, Co-Founder

The Wherefour team provides the training and tools to make it a simple upload, and once you get the template uploads completed, it’s the click of a button. The process is very intuitive.

Rick Murray, COO

The secret
ingredient in your Food business.