Food & Beverage · 2024

A food production system that connects four production centres, every store, and every order.

Custom food production and ERP system for Moran's Catering — replacing Excel-based operations across four production centres with a unified platform covering production planning, recipe and batch management, inventory, supplier orders, dispatch, traceability, and integrations with Sage, Bartender label printing, and Philips Hue production lighting.

Moran's Catering
Client
Custom Software
Service
12 months
Duration
2024
Year
Moran's Catering
Food & Beverage
The tangle

Four production centres. Multiple stores. All of it in spreadsheets.

Moran's ran four production centres and multiple stores from a tangle of Excel spreadsheets. Production planning, stock levels, supplier orders, batch records, and dispatch were all managed in separate files — different teams, different versions, no single source of truth. As the operation grew, the spreadsheets couldn't keep up: stock errors compounded, traceability was reactive at best, and managers had no real-time picture of what was actually being produced or dispatched.

What we built

One system. Production, stock, dispatch, traceability. All connected.

  • 01Production planning and scheduling across four production centres
  • 02Recipe and batch management with yield tracking and cost control
  • 03Real-time inventory management and automated supplier ordering
  • 04Dispatch management with fulfilment tracking to multiple stores
  • 05Full ingredient-to-product traceability for food safety compliance
  • 06Sage accounting integration for automated financial reconciliation
  • 07Bartender label printing integration — batch labels generated directly from production records
  • 08Philips Hue lighting integration — production status communicated via ambient light signals across the floor
  • 09Live connection to the Moran's e-commerce platform for order-driven production triggers
The result

Real-time across every centre. Sage, Bartender, and Hue — all integrated.

4
Production centres unified
3
External integrations (Sage, Bartender, Hue)
~90%
Of businesses report efficiency gains after replacing Excel with ERP (industry benchmark)
2024
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