Food & Beverage
When you are responsible for both operations and projects, a standard ERP quickly becomes a limitation if it does not handle batch, traceability and documentation correctly. You end up with manual workarounds, uncertain data and a decision-making basis that doesn't quite hold up.
This makes it more difficult to manage production, follow up on quality and ensure that the documentation is in place when it matters.
With an ERP that is adapted to the food and beverage industry, you get data that is connected to your reality. You can follow raw materials, production and deliveries without having to gather information in several places.
This gives you better control in everyday life, fewer interruptions in operations and a more solid basis for planning, prioritizing and delivering as expected.
Best Aptean Partner in Europe 2025
We have been named Best Aptean Partner in Europe 2025. A recognition we are both humbled by and proud of – and at the same time confirm that our targeted focus on Food & Beverage creates real business value.
Every day, our specialists work with a deep understanding of the food industry's requirements for traceability, quality, documentation and efficient operation. We develop and implement solutions where business is always the starting point and where technology is the means to create momentum. The award underlines our position as a partner within Aptean in Europe. It reflects our uncompromising approach to quality, our close collaboration with customers and our ability to translate complexity into scalable, value-creating solutions.
A big thank you to Aptean – our customers and employees who have helped make it possible. We look forward to speeding up Food & Beverage even more.
Reliable ERP solutions
When production rolls, all joints must play together. Every day, the food and beverage industry demands precise handling of traceability, quality, documentation, taxes, logistics, packaging and forecasts – and it all has to come together in a higher unity without compromising on efficiency.
At KOLLAB, we don't just supply software –, we ensure that the solution fits your flow. Our industry specialists help you create a targeted IT strategy and implement ERP solutions that connect the entire value chain, which applies to everything from raw material reception to finished product and distribution.
We don't just build solutions from the desktop. Our advice is based on over 25 years of hands-on experience with IT implementation in the food industry with deep insight into the requirements and workflows that characterize production, storage and logistics throughout the value chain.
We work with both manufacturers and wholesalers in a wide field of food categories, and one pattern repeats itself: Regardless of product or sub-industry, many struggle with the same process challenges: everything from managing raw materials and batches to traceability, taxes and inventory optimization.
That is why we have gathered our experience in a well-tested industry solution that covers approximately 90% of the processes that recur in the food industry – directly in Dynamics 365 Business Central, supplemented by Aptean Food & Beverage. The last 10%? This is where your company differs. And this is where we start with targeted analysis and adaptations that ensure that your special processes also become an integral part of the solution without compromising on operation or traceability.
Aptean Food & Beverage
When the processes have to be connected from purchase to delivery, it requires more than generic systems. Aptean Food & Beverage is the leading add-on module for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central – developed specifically for food production and distribution.
Aptean serves over 6,000 customers globally across more than 20 industries, including the food and beverage industry. Their food and beverage solution brings together all key functions in one platform: traceability, quality control, recipe management, documentation, forecasts, production planning, logistics and much more. All with a view to making your flow more robust and your output more stable.
Aptean is not just a tool for today. It is a strategic choice that gives you the flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and standards in the industry, where you do not have to compromise on efficiency.
As an exclusive Scandinavian partner, we have extensive experience in implementing Aptean in precisely those types of businesses where waste costs dearly and errors are not an option. This results in streamlined processes, more capacity, and a solution that holds up to reality.
Read more about ApteanERP with food-specific functionality
With the Aptean Food & Beverage solution, you get specialized functionality that builds on your ERP and creates real business value – from inventory management, production and quality control to traceability, logistics, sales, purchasing and financial management. All adapted to the industry's special requirements, so you can make better decisions, ensure compliance and deliver on time – every time.
SCM & Inventory Management
Insight, overview and control of your internal and external product flows. Make your inventory management clear and accurate and manage a complex inventory with ‘sell-within““ dates’, device conversions and other records. Manage add-on storage, picking, packing, shipping and streamlining of your storage processes via a real-time overview of the stock itself.
Production & Shop Floor
Insight, overview and control of your internal and external product flows. Make your inventory management clear and accurate and manage a complex inventory with ‘sell-within““ dates’, device conversions and other records. Manage add-on storage, picking, packing, shipping and streamlining of your storage processes via a real-time overview of the stock itself.
Quality control
Manage the unique requirements for quality in your business and production processes. Integrate all quality-related actions to facilitate work to comply with strict legal requirements, tight schedules and deadlines in working with raw materials. Create mandatory quality controls and score sheets at each stage of the production cycle to check whether the product meets quality and safety standards.
Traceability
Meet the legal requirements and customers' changing needs for security compliance and traceability. Make track and trace of raw materials, finished products and transactions throughout your supply chain.
Logistics & Delivery Planning
Match the correct shipment against the calculations of each delivery weight and volume while the system takes into account special conditions for each delivery location. Reading out documents and driver instructions can all be sorted by route and with the flexibility to easily move orders between different routes.
Analysis & Reporting
Make accurate forecasts and make strategic decisions. Gain insight and an overview via unique data reports that measure and visualize your production, sales and expenditure data both historically and in real time.
Sales
Fast and accurate order processing. Get an automated flow throughout your value chain. The options for running with price combinations, campaigns, sales forecast and budgeting are just some of the tools that you can integrate.
Purchasing
Create efficiency by continuously monitoring your suppliers' performance and in this connection set up realistic reordering levels.
Financial management
Get an overview of your finances via effective management of finance, debt, receivables, inventory and fixed assets, reporting and cash flows.