Food and Beverage

automated bottling line at a manufacturing facility.
Human Capital Management
Inside Lion’s ServiceNow Overhaul: From Fragmented Services to AI Readiness
Lion, a beverage manufacturer, improved employee service efficiency and satisfaction by redesigning its HR, IT, and finance workflows with EY and ServiceNow, consolidating over 56 legacy channels into a unified system that increased self-service usage by 200% and reduced operating costs by about 30%, while laying the groundwork for future AI integration.
Workers in hairnets and protective coats sort and pack apples on conveyor lines in a food manufacturing facility
Application Development and Integration
Charlie Bigham’s Replaces Legacy Middleware in Syspro 8 Cloud Upgrade
Charlie Bigham’s used the end of life of Syspro 7 to move to Syspro 8 in the cloud and replace fragile legacy middleware with Codeless Platforms’ BPA Platform. The rebuild cleared the way for a new warehouse management system, Cyber Essentials Plus certification and a Microsoft Fabric data program.
ERP Strategy and Planning
ERP vs Food Traceability Software: Choosing the Right Path for Food Manufacturers
Food and beverage manufacturers face increasing pressure to balance compliance and efficiency, leading to a strategic choice between standalone traceability software for immediate compliance needs and integrated ERP systems that enhance operational connectivity and long-term value.
ERP Strategy and Planning
How Langeberg Foods Gained Full Traceability in Its First Season on Syspro
Langeberg Foods, one of the world's largest deciduous fruit canneries, went live on Syspro ahead of a fixed seasonal deadline, replacing paper-based processes with electronic scanning and full traceability.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Food Traceability Moves Beyond Compliance Into ERP Operations
Food manufacturers evaluating traceability systems face an architecture decision that extends beyond recall management. ERP integration allows lot, batch, supplier, expiry, production, and cost data to shape routine operational decisions.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Why Agribusiness ERP Has to Treat Contracts as Risk Signals
Agribusiness contracts carry commodity, FX, and interest-rate exposure long before settlement. This article explains how SAP Agricultural Contract Management turns contracts into a live risk engine inside ERP, with msg global's implementation approach.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Why Food ERP Still Needs More Than Generic Dynamics 365
Aptean’s food and beverage ERP footprint on Microsoft Dynamics 365 shows why food, beverage, fresh, and agribusiness companies still need vertical ERP logic for traceability, quality, production, pricing, and compliance.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
QAD Redzone’s Pune Hub Points to the Real AI Gap in Manufacturing
QAD Redzone’s Pune hub is more than an India engineering expansion. It reflects a larger shift toward AI-enabled manufacturing execution, where ERP, MES, connected worker tools, and frontline decision-making need to operate as one control loop.
Product Lifecycle Management
NTT DATA Puts AI Agents at the Front End of Product Planning
NTT DATA is launching an AI agent service in July 2026 to streamline early-stage product planning for food, beverage, and consumer goods companies, enhancing the speed and structure of concept generation while ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and market analysis.
Crafted ERP
Enterprise Asset Management
Crafted ERP Is Rolling Barrel Management into the Mobile Era
Doozy Solutions launched Crafted ERP Mobile, an app extending its cloud-based ERP platform for distillery teams on June 16, enabling real-time barrel management, movement tracking, and data access in remote environments without requiring full user licenses, while also signaling a broader trend towards mobile ERP functionality in the beverage industry.
Manufacturing Systems and Automation
Sage X3 Helping Food, Beverage Manufacturers Tackle AI and Compliance Challenges
Food and beverage manufacturers are leveraging Sage X3 ERP to enhance inventory management, compliance, and AI adoption amidst operational complexities.
CRM and Customer Experience
ERP Today 2025 Awards: Customer Experience Moves to the Core of ERP Strategy
SugarAI won the Customer Experience Solution of the Year award for its successful transformation of Country Fare by leveraging sales data to enhance customer engagement and proactive relationship management, while Inetum was recognized as a runner-up for optimizing service delivery using AI.
Parle ERP transformation SAP Cloud ERP Private
ERP Strategy and Planning
How the World’s Largest Biscuit Brand Transformed ERP and Cut Costs 30%
Parle’s move to SAP Cloud ERP Private shows how clean core ERP and hybrid cloud can reduce costs, standardize operations, and enable data-driven decision-making at scale.
The Clorox Company headquarters exterior with city reflections, illustrating SAP S/4HANA transformation and enterprise modernization
ERP Strategy and Planning
How Clorox Planned Its SAP S/4HANA Transformation—Insights from the CIO
Clorox shares how it planned and executed its SAP S/4HANA transformation, highlighting adoption, execution trade-offs, and how success is defined after go-live.
MAG Snowflake data visibility
Analytics and AI
How MAG Unified Data with Snowflake to Improve Visibility and Reduce Costs
Mark Anthony Group (MAG) unified fragmented data using Snowflake to improve visibility, reduce total cost of ownership, and enable faster, AI-driven decisions across global operations.
Clorox ERP
ERP Strategy and Planning
Clorox Completes SAP ERP Overhaul as Purell Acquisition Tests Integration Capacity
Clorox successfully implemented a cloud-based SAP ERP system across 21 manufacturing plants, enhancing operational decision-making while navigating initial supply chain disruptions and anticipating productivity improvements by fiscal 2027.
Human Capital Management
Global Enterprises Using SAP BTP to Cut Customization Debt and Prepare ERP for AI
SAP BTP enables enterprises like McDonald’s and a global consulting firm to adopt clean-core ERP strategies by reducing custom code and fostering agility through extensibility, allowing for scalable operations and AI readiness in their digital transformation journeys.
M&A
Analytics and AI
Canix Acquires Trym to Build Cannabis Industry Advanced ERP Platform
Canix has acquired Trym to create a comprehensive cannabis ERP system that merges cultivation management capabilities with operational intelligence, addressing industry challenges and emphasizing integrated platforms for enhanced efficiency and profitability.
Workday ERP finance
Human Capital Management
Workday Launches Paradox ATS for Faster Frontline Hiring
Workday's integration of the AI-driven Paradox Conversational Applicant Tracking System streamlines frontline hiring by enabling mobile-first applications, drastically reducing time-to-hire to an average of 3.5 days and automating up to 90% of hiring tasks.
Analytics and AI
SAP, Partners Turn Embedded Business AI into Concrete ERP Wins
SAP and its partners are transforming AI from concept to implementation by integrating SAP Business AI and SAP BTP into workflows that enhance efficiency and collaboration, as illustrated by successful case studies from companies like FRoSTA and Aspen Pumps.
Clorox ERP
ERP Strategy and Planning
Clorox ERP Modernization: Lessons from a Large-Scale Transition
Clorox's recent ERP system launch, while an ambitious, faced challenges including concerns over costs and a decline in sales during the transition, illustrating the complexities and disruptions inherent in large-scale ERP migrations.
SAP Sovereign Cloud
Application Development and Integration
Nestlé Expanding ERP Solutions Using SAP S/4HANA
Nestlé is upgrading to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition aiming for greater agility, efficiency through AI and automation and a flexible cloud infrastructure for their global business processes.
Analytics and AI
The Algorithm: What It Means to Be an AI-First Company
“We’re moving beyond the hype cycle into a period where AI’s real value is emerging. Yet, many manufacturers are struggling to bridge the gap between its potential and its practical implementation.” — TVN Reddy, CEO, Aptean
A Recipe for Resilience and Aptean
Cloud Platform and Technology
A Recipe for Resilience
How food and beverages companies can succeed in the digital era.
fresh produce
ERP Strategy and Planning
Fresh Produce Companies Find Value in Upgraded, Industry-Specialized ERPs
We examine case studies to see how a specialized ERP for fresh produce companies is helping them scale and achieve their goals.
FSMA 204
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Navigating the FSMA 204 Traceability Extension for Food Manufacturers
The FDA's extension of FSMA 204 compliance to July 2028 offers food manufacturers a strategic chance to enhance traceability systems, fostering competitive advantages and operational excellence, as highlighted by the collaboration of key industry organizations to standardize practices and address challenges in the food supply chain.
ERP Strategy and Planning
Harvesting Resilience: How Aptean Is Helping Food and Beverage Companies Thrive in the Age of AI
Aptean is providing food and beverage manufacturers with industry-specific ERP and AI solutions to enhance operational efficiency, compliance, and adaptability in an increasingly complex and regulated market.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Fresh Produce ERP Buyer’s Guide: Finding the Right Solution for Your Business’s Needs
Aptean Fresh Produce ERP is hosted on the robust Microsoft Azure cloud offering a SaaS-native solution that ensures scalability, security and seamless integration. What’s more, the system’s AI-powered features transform data into actionable insights and empower your team to make smart decisions.
ERP Strategy and Planning
The Beverage ERP Buyer’s Guide: Finding the Right Solution for Your Business’s Needs
Aptean Beverage ERP Drink-IT is a complete and easy-to-use beverage management solution covering your entire value chain. From ingredient sourcing and quality management to order fulfillment and customer service, it addresses all the unique challenges of the beverage industry.
Automation
Aptean’s Food and Beverage Solution Suite
Our software suite helps businesses digitalize and automate processes, mitigating human error and manual record-keeping, while also ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
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