Ostendo Continuum (ERP) for Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Ostendo Continuum ERP for Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Total Control from Ingredients to Finished Goods
The food and beverage manufacturing industry operates under intense pressure—from strict regulatory compliance and food safety standards, to rising costs, fluctuating demand, traceability requirements, and tight production margins. Manufacturers must manage recipes, batches, allergens, shelf life, quality, compliance, and customer delivery expectations—all without compromising efficiency.
Ostendo Continuum ERP is purpose-built to meet these exact challenges. It provides an end-to-end, fully integrated system that connects purchasing, inventory, production, quality, compliance, sales, warehousing, and distribution into a single, real-time source of truth—giving food and beverage manufacturers complete operational control.
Built for Food & Beverage Industry Requirements
Unlike generic ERP systems, Ostendo Continuum is designed with process manufacturing at its core, making it ideally suited to food and beverage production environments.
1. Recipe & Batch Manufacturing
Ostendo Continuum manages complex recipes and formulas with full control over:
- Ingredients and sub-assemblies
- Variable yields and scaling
- Batch sizing and production scheduling
- Actual vs expected usage and variances
This ensures production accuracy, minimises waste, and protects profitability.
2. Full Lot & Batch Traceability
From raw materials to finished goods, Ostendo Continuum delivers end-to-end traceability, allowing you to:
- Track every ingredient by lot and batch
- Trace forward to customers and backward to suppliers instantly
- Isolate affected stock in seconds during a recall
- Meet FSANZ, HACCP, and global traceability standards
This is critical for food safety, risk management, and brand protection.
3. Allergen & Food Safety Management
Ostendo Continuum enables you to:
- Identify and manage allergen-controlled ingredients
- Apply allergen flags throughout production and warehousing
- Enforce validation checks during picking and manufacturing
- Maintain compliance documentation and audit trails
This drastically reduces the risk of cross-contamination and labelling errors.
Quality, Compliance & Regulatory Control
HACCP, FSANZ & ISO Compliance
Ostendo Continuum supports compliance with:
- HACCP programs
- FSANZ food safety standards
- ISO 9001 Quality Management
- Customer and retailer audit requirements
Quality checks can be embedded directly into production workflows, capturing:
- Temperature logs
- QC pass/fail results
- Hold/release status
- Non-conformances and corrective actions
All data is securely stored for audits and compliance reporting.
Shelf Life & Expiry Control
Ostendo Continuum manages:
- Best-before and expiry dates
- Shelf-life calculation by product and batch
- Automatic expiry warnings
This dramatically reduces stock obsolescence and spoilage.
Integrated Production, Inventory & Warehousing
Real-Time Inventory Control
Ostendo Continuum delivers live visibility across:
- Raw materials
- Work-in-progress
- Finished goods
- Consignment and multiple warehouse locations
Stock is updated automatically through:
- Purchasing and receipting
- Production issues and returns
- Picking, packing, and despatch
No more spreadsheets. No more blind spots.
Barcode Scanning & Mobile Warehousing
With Ostendo Freeway mobile apps, your team can:
- Receive goods via barcode
- Pick and pack orders accurately
- Scan batches, lots, and serials
- Perform real-time stock counts
- Capture production data at the machine
This significantly improves accuracy, speed, and labour efficiency.
Demand Planning & Production Scheduling
Sales Forecasting & Item Usage Forecasting
Ostendo Continuum analyses historical sales and usage patterns to:
- Forecast demand
- Predict raw material consumption
- Plan production capacity
- Optimise procurement
This reduces stock shortages, over-ordering, and production bottlenecks.
Finite & Infinite Scheduling
Production can be scheduled based on:
- Machine and labour capacity
- Batch sizes and changeovers
- Lead times and customer delivery dates
You gain full visibility of what to make, when to make it, and what resources are required.
Costing, Profitability & Financial Control
Ostendo Continuum provides true real-time manufacturing costing, including:
- Actual ingredient usage
- Labour
- Overheads
- Yield variances
- By-products and waste
You can analyse:
- Profitability by product, batch, customer, or channel
- Margin erosion from waste and inefficiencies
- True landed costs including freight and duty
This empowers confident pricing, smarter purchasing, and higher margins.
Integrated Sales, Distribution & Customer Service
Ostendo Continuum seamlessly integrates:
- Customer orders
- Production
- Warehousing
- Despatch
- Invoicing
Advanced features include:
- Customer-specific pricing and contracts
- Minimum order quantities and pallet rules
- Route planning and delivery management
- DIFOT (Delivery In Full On Time) performance tracking
You gain complete control over service levels and customer satisfaction.
Automation, SCADA & Shop Floor Integration
Ostendo Continuum interfaces with:
- Dispensing systems
- Weighing systems
- Barcode scanners
- SCADA systems
- Visual productivity boards
This enables:
- Automated data capture
- Elimination of manual data entry
- Real-time performance reporting
- Improved OEE and yield control
Powerful Business Intelligence & Reporting
With built-in reporting and dashboards, Ostendo Continuum provides live insight into:
- Yield and waste
- Production efficiency
- Quality failures
- Supplier performance
- DIFOT and service levels
- Inventory turnover
- Batch profitability
Integration with Power BI® and Excel® allows management to access real-time KPIs anywhere.
Scalable for Growing Food & Beverage Businesses
Whether you are a start-up producer or a multi-site manufacturer, Ostendo Continuum scales with your business:
- Multi-warehouse
- Multi-company
- Multi-currency
- Multi-country compliance
You can start with core production and expand into advanced quality, BI, mobility, EDI, and eCommerce as your business grows.
Why Food & Beverage Manufacturers Choose Ostendo
- Designed for process manufacturing
- End-to-end lot & batch traceability
- Full HACCP & compliance support
- Recipe, allergen & shelf-life control
- Integrated production, inventory, sales & finance
- Mobile barcode scanning & automation
- Real-time costing and profitability
- Powerful reporting & business intelligence
Transform Your Food & Beverage Manufacturing with Ostendo Continuum
In today’s regulated, margin-driven food and beverage environment, manufacturers cannot afford disconnected systems, poor traceability, or manual processes. Ostendo Continuum ERP delivers the control, compliance, visibility, and performance required to compete and grow with confidence.
From recipe to recall, from supplier to shelf—Ostendo Continuum gives you total control of your food and beverage manufacturing operation.
3WS Dispensing System
Our data exchange between Ostendo Continuum (ERP) and the Wayahead 3WS dispensing system automates precise shop floor data collection, improving accuracy, compliance, and production efficiency for process manufacturers.
Click here for more information about the 3WS dispensing system by Wayahead.
