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ERP for small food factories
Recipes, ingredients, jars and labels – Fabricus turns each batch into a real cost per jar or per kilo, so your prices to shops and distributors stay right when ingredient prices move.
What usually goes wrong
Recipes in someone's head
The quantities live with one person, and every batch is slightly different.
Jars and labels forgotten
The cost counts the ingredients but forgets the jar, the lid, the label and the carton.
Prices to shops never updated
Oil, sugar and vegetables went up, but the price to distributors stayed the same.
How Fabricus handles it
- Recipes as materials lists. Ingredients, jars, lids, labels and cartons per jar or per kilo, with the expected losses.
- Batches as production orders. Each batch follows its steps – preparing, cooking, filling, labelling – with the time each one takes.
- Good and lost per step. Record what was lost at each step, so the yield of every batch is known.
- Ingredient price history. Every supplier invoice updates the price, and the cost follows.
- Proposals to distributors. Send a price proposal with product photos; the customer accepts it online.
Example: one order, the real cost
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vegetables, vinegar, salt, spices | $310.00 |
| Jars, lids, labels, cartons | $228.00 |
| Labour – preparing, filling, labelling | $96.00 |
| Gas, electricity + overhead | $66.00 |
| Real cost per jar (1,200 jars) → price with 30% margin | $0.58 → $0.83 |
Questions from Food production factories
Can I keep my recipes private?
Yes. Access is set per role and per person, so only the people you choose see costs and recipes.
Does it track expiry dates and lots?
Not yet. Fabricus tracks batches as production orders with their materials, time and losses; lot and expiry tracking is not part of the current version.
Can the cost include gas and electricity?
Yes. Overhead such as gas, electricity and rent is added as an overhead rate in the product cost, and recorded as expenses in accounting.