Struggling with Visibility, Compliance, or Inefficiency?
Stoneridge Software provides purpose-built enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for modern food and beverage businesses. If your legacy systems are no longer keeping pace with operations, we can design the cloud-based food ERP software solution to improve efficiency, increase visibility, and make compliance a breeze.
This ERP for the food and beverage industry is built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central platform, allowing seamless integration with Microsoft 365 tools and built-in AI capabilities. The result is end-to-end transparency throughout your operations, giving you the real-time information you need to make smarter decisions.
How Can Microsoft Dynamics 365 Help Your Business?
- All-in-One ERP: By consolidating financial and supply chain data into a single, integrated system, Dynamics 365 enables manufacturers to gain insights into costs, process efficiency, and supply chain performance.
- Enhanced Compliance and Traceability: Robust tools for managing regulatory compliance and traceability. Track ingredients, manage lot numbers, and ensure all products meet food safety standards.
- Real-Time Inventory Management: Easily check inventory levels, expiration dates, and usage rates to reduce waste and ensure production schedules align with inventory.
- Advanced Production Scheduling: Allows manufacturers to manage complex production processes more efficiently.
Real-World Results Backed by Stoneridge Expertise
Here’s just a few of the companies who partnered with Stoneridge for their food and beverage business needs.
The Right Partner Provides Food & Beverage Manufacturing and Business Expertise that Goes Beyond Software
IT Leaders
Secure, Scalable, Cloud-Based ERP
Empower your organization with the security, stability, and resilience of a cloud-based ERP.
With seamless updates and integrations, your team gains stability and agility, ensuring technology supports business goals without added risk or overhead.
Operations Leaders
Efficiency, Quality, and Control
Streamline operations with end-to-end visibility and automation.
Gain the tools to proactively manage inventory, compliance, and scheduling—all while improving efficiency, reducing waste, and maintaining control.
Finance Leaders
Instant, Accurate Data for Better Decisions
Make faster, smarter financial decisions with reliable data at your fingertips.
Automated reporting, increased accuracy, and new insights on profitability drivers allow you to strategize with confidence.
Solving the Operational Challenges of Food and Beverage Manufacturing
All-in-One
ERP
Consolidate financial and supply chain data in one integrated system for insight into costs, process efficiency, and supply chain performance.
Compliance &
Traceability
Track ingredients, manage lot numbers, and ensure every product meets food safety standards with recall-ready reporting.
Real-Time
Inventory
Check inventory levels, expiration dates, and usage rates to reduce waste and keep production aligned with what’s on hand.
Advanced
Scheduling
Manage complex, batch-driven production processes more efficiently with visual scheduling and production sequencing.
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Why Dynamics 365 Beats Niche Food & Beverage Software
You might wonder why you should use a Dynamics 365 ERP when you can use software created specifically for the food and beverage industry. Industry-specific systems cover niche needs but struggle with traditional business operations like financials and warehouse management.
Here are some advantages of all-inclusive software like Microsoft Dynamics 365 for food and beverage manufacturing:
Convenient Cloud Hosting
Dynamics 365 ERP runs in Microsoft Azure, so there are no servers to maintain in the plant and no upgrade projects to schedule around production. Multi-site operations get the same system and the same data from every facility.
Microsoft-Backed Security
Enterprise-grade identity, encryption, and threat protection are built in and maintained by Microsoft. Role-based access keeps formulations and pricing visible only to the people who need them.
Backup and Recovery
Automated backups and point-in-time restore are part of the platform, with Microsoft’s uptime commitments behind them. If something goes wrong, recovery is a process rather than a scramble.
CRM Integration
Sales, customer service, and ERP share one record, so order history, pricing, and credit status are visible in the same place. Field and broker teams quote from real inventory and lead times.
Works With Office 365
Excel, Outlook, and Teams connect directly to live ERP data, so production and finance teams work in the tools they already use. Export a costing report to Excel, edit it, and publish it back without rekeying.
Power Platform Automation
Power Automate and Power Apps let you automate approvals, QC checks, and alerts without custom code. Build a mobile app for line-side inspections or expiration checks in days, not months.
1000+ AppSource Extensions
Vetted add-ons cover the niche needs industry software is usually bought for, including catch weight, EDI, quality management, and route accounting. You extend one system instead of integrating another.
Built-In AI & Copilot
Copilot drafts reports, summarizes variances, and surfaces demand and inventory signals in plain language. Forecasting and anomaly detection come with the platform rather than a separate analytics purchase.
Prep for Success with a
Trusted Tech Partner
Stoneridge Software has a 9.5/10 client satisfaction rating for building solutions that are right for your business and delivering on that promise.
Upgrading your systems with a team of experienced Dynamics pros has never been easier. We work closely with you to build what you need to stay competitive and efficient in the food and beverage industry.
Dynamics 365 Covers Many Important Manufacturing-Related Functions
Production order lot inheritance and pack-level tracking for full traceability from raw materials to finished goods.
Load carriers (license plating) to simplify product movements.
Barcode scanning to increase accuracy and efficiency.
Automated purchase planning to ensure you always have the right materials on hand.
Cycle counting to ensure quantities are accurate.
Vendor quote management to get the best prices on ingredients.
Manufacturing execution system (MES) capabilities to increase accuracy and efficiency.
Joint production for multiple outputs from a single production process.
Scale integration to enhance operational efficiency and accuracy.
Production planning with visual scheduling tools for operational agility.
Filling and decanting orders to accommodate multiple container and finished good product requirements.
Production sequencing to manage order of production based on defined criteria, minimizing downtime and machine cleaning time.
Video Series: Dynamics 365 for Batch Manufacturing
Batch manufacturing has its own rules, so we made a whole video series tailored toward the needs of your industry. These are just some of the enhancements that Dynamics 365 Business Central can bring to your table.
FAQs
We run implementations in phases that are aligned to your production calendar. Most F&B clients keep running their current system until the transition is complete, and we schedule the heaviest configuration work around your slow seasons wherever possible.
Yes. Dynamics 365 supports catch weight, co-products/by-products, and formula management natively, which means you don’t need a separate system to manage recipes, yield variance, or ingredient substitutions.
Real-time inventory and production data lets you plan around actual shelf life, batch availability, and demand, rather than static reorder points. This is where most of our clients see their first measurable waste reduction.
Dynamics 365 has native and ISV-supported connectors for most common F&B tech stacks. Where a direct integration doesn’t exist, we’ll scope custom integration as part of the implementation process.
Your internal IT team won’t be the first line of defense for ERP issues. Microsoft handles infrastructure and core platform updates, and our managed services team can take on tier-1/tier-2 support.
We run a structured migration process with validation checkpoints. Historical transactional data, lot/batch history, and customer records are mapped and tested, meaning they can be integrated into the new system before you transition fully.
It varies by scope, but most mid-market F&B clients start seeing measurable returns—such as reduced waste, labor efficiency, or fewer manual reconciliation hours—within the first 6–12 months. Financial visibility improvements often show up almost immediately.
We scope and price implementations against a defined statement of work, and any change in scope goes through a formal change order process. You won’t get any surprise invoices mid-project.
Yes. With formula-level costing and real-time production data, you get margin visibility down to the SKU or batch level.
Yes. Forward and backward traceability from raw ingredient lot to finished goods and shipment is a core capability. Most clients can run a mock recall trace in minutes once configured.
Built-in quality management, lot tracking, and document control give you audit-ready records without needing to maintain a separate compliance spreadsheet system alongside your ERP.
Allergen tracking can be built into item and formula data, so scheduling and changeover decisions can factor in allergen risk rather than relying on manual checklists alone.
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