An Expertly Seasoned Spices and Ingredients ERP

The features that set our spices and ingredients ERP apart from generic alternatives are the ones built specifically for the way your business operates. The capabilities that matter most to your segment are built in:

• Bi-directional, lot-level traceability throughout processing—from incoming raw material lots through grinding, blending and packaging to the finished product shipped to your customers

• Broker and commission management to capture fees and seasonal material costs directly in purchasing, giving you accurate cost-of-goods data in real time

• Production and washdown scheduling with mandatory quality checkpoints built around proper procedure and review requirements

• Quality assurance tools that integrate with connected sensors and scales to capture accurate readings at every stage without manual data entry

Taken together, these capabilities give your teams the tools that spice and ingredient manufacturing operations demand.

A range of complementary Aptean solutions can be added to build out your technology stack. These include:  

• Enterprise asset management (EAM) to keep grinding, blending and packaging equipment maintained and operating at full capacity 

• Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) to track production line performance and identify where throughput is being lost 

• Product lifecycle management (PLM) to manage custom blend development, specification control and customer approval workflows 

• Transportation management solutions to optimize fleet and carrier management for timely customer deliveries 

• Business Intelligence for advanced analytics and reporting across your full operation 

• Electronic data interchange (EDI) to automate transactions with food manufacturer customers and trading partners 

Because everything runs on AppCentral, these solutions work together from the outset—sharing the same data, connecting your teams and eliminating the friction of managing separate systems.

Spice and ingredient manufacturers operate in a low-moisture environment where Salmonella is a persistent and well-documented risk. Our ERP supports treatment and monitoring processes by helping your team manage documentation, track results over time and flag anomalies before they become food safety emergencies.

Allergen management is equally critical in a segment where shared blending equipment creates cross-contact risk across celery, mustard, sesame and tree nut derivatives. Our solution tracks allergen-containing ingredients at the lot level and provides the scheduling controls necessary for avoiding contamination. What’s more, embedded compliance checks help ensure you’re covered on the regulatory front.