Custom software for food producers, distributors, growers and food tech. From HACCP compliance and allergen tracking to lot recall, FEFO stock and CO2 footprint per batch, built to demonstrably keep the entire chain from farm to delivery under control.
The agri-food sector becomes more heavily regulated every year. HACCP plans, BRC and IFS audits, FSSC 22000 certification, Food Information to Consumers Regulation 1169/2011, Skal for organic, IKB for the meat sector, GlobalG.A.P. for cultivation, FSMA for export to the United States, and on top of that CSRD is coming, with CO2 footprint per product. Anyone trying to keep up with this in spreadsheets and loose emails will sooner or later run into a non-conformity or, worse, a recall that takes too long to carry out.
At the same time, agri-food processes are more complex than in many other sectors. Recipes with dozens of ingredients, allergens that can carry over through cross-contamination, shelf life that varies per pallet, chilled transport with temperature requirements, and customers (supermarkets, foodservice, exporters) who each use their own EDI standard. Standard ERP packages cover part of this, but the specific flow of your products often still lives in people's heads, on paper or in loose tools.
We build custom software development for agri-food businesses that want to anchor their recipe management, lot administration and compliance in one workable system. Not a generic multi-million-pound ERP implementation, but focused applications that run alongside your existing systems, or that fully digitise your operation if you are starting from scratch. Our experience with software for the manufacturing industry and with production control via a MES system is directly relevant, because food production shares many patterns with that world, just with an additional layer of food safety on top.
If you supply retailers, a certificate comes with that. On the cultivation side, we develop this into GlobalG.A.P. crop registration and audit, with withdrawal period monitoring and traceability down to the batch.
Which one fits depends on where you sit in the chain and what compliance pressure you face. In the first conversation we advise which type of project suits your situation.
A focused application that runs alongside your ERP and specifically handles HACCP, allergen and lot tracking. Production staff log critical control points on a tablet or phone, with mandatory entry moments at the right points in the workflow. Allergens are built up automatically per recipe from the ingredients, and in the event of a recall you can see within minutes which production batches went to which customers. Suited to producers who want to keep their existing ERP but strengthen the food safety layer on top.
Full recipe management with BOM structure, automatic nutritional value calculation per 100 grams, allergen inheritance, cost roll-up and seasonally sensitive planning. Includes production planning, integration with MES or floor-level weighing equipment, label generation under 1169/2011, and shelf-life management with FEFO picking guidance for the warehouse. When ingredients change, nutritional values and allergens roll through automatically to all dependent products. Suited to dairy, meat, bakery, soft drink, snack and convenience food producers.
Mission-critical platform connecting growers, processors, distributors and retail customers. Supply planning based on supply and demand and season, EDI order traffic to foodservice, retail and exporters, chilled transport tracking with temperature logging, a B2B portal for customers with self-service for repeat orders, and sustainability reporting for CSRD per product, customer and year. Each grower or producer has their own portal within the platform, with a farm app or livestock module, and central data for the cooperative or distributor.
If your question relates specifically to certification, we have dedicated pages for that: IFS and BRCGS software for monitoring the knock-out requirements, and an app for production floor inspection rounds for recording findings on the spot.
If you work with GMO-free streams, the separation during storage and transport must be demonstrable. See the app for stream segregation and intake.
Software that passes the audit runs in your own environment and can be managed by your own IT team. No black box, no vendor lock-in.
Four patterns in which we support agri-food businesses. If you recognise one, we'd be happy to talk about what a focused build could deliver.
Your CCP records are scattered across paper forms, spreadsheets and loose folders. During a BRC or IFS audit it takes days to bring everything to light, and sooner or later a gap appears in the records.
You know which ingredients went into a production batch, but no longer which pallets went to which customers. A recall would now mean phoning customers one by one instead of pressing a button.
Calculating nutritional values, allergens and claims for each new product takes hours. When an ingredient changes, everything has to be redone, and labels fall behind reality.
Retail customers are asking for CO2, water and energy figures per product, and CSRD is on its way. You have the measurement data, in energy contracts, transport documents and telemetry, but no system that brings it together.
The agri-food sector is broad. Every link in the chain has its own processes, and our custom software is tailored to your place in that chain.
Dairy, meat, bakery, soft drinks, snacks and convenience. Recipes with BOM and allergens, production planning, labelling, batch administration and HACCP records integrated into one flow on the production floor.
B2B suppliers to hospitality, retail and foodservice. Customer order portals, EDI integrations, chilled logistics with FEFO picking, route optimisation and invoicing including deposits and levies.
Arable farming, glasshouse horticulture, livestock farming and fisheries. Crop administration on the tractor, pesticide records under GlobalG.A.P., animal administration with treatments and milk recording, catch records for aquaculture.
Vegetable, fruit and flower growers, cooperatives and track-and-trace coordinators for fresh supply chains. Intake planning, distribution, quality assessment and passing costs on to members.
Producers of plant-based proteins, fermented products, vertical farms and insect farming. They often build their process from scratch and look for software that grows alongside rapid iteration of recipe and production process.
Producers of dietary supplements under EU GMP, with specific requirements around claims, certifications and traceability of active substances back to the supplier. If you farm organically, the Skal mass balance applies as well.
With OneDayBuild, we turn your idea into something tangible in one day for €1,150, so you can see whether further development is worth the investment. Decide to go ahead with the full build? Then we credit the full cost.
Explore OneDayBuild →You decide which certifications are relevant for your products and customers. We make sure the software delivers the controls, registrations and reporting in a way that keeps working consistently, even after years.
We map where you sit in the chain, which certification applies (HACCP, BRC, IFS, Skal, IKB, GlobalG.A.P.), which ERP or MES is already in use, and what is causing the most pain: compliance, recall speed, planning or sustainability.
A day on the production floor or with the growers to see the actual flow. Where registration currently happens, who touches the system, and which screens need to work on a tablet while wearing gloves. At the end, you have a concrete scope with the first flows.
A working build every two weeks. Your quality and production teams test along with us on real recipes and batch data. Compliance components are validated early, so audit readiness does not become a separate project at the end.
Phased rollout to production, warehouse or growers. We supply documentation for your certifying body, join you in a trial audit, and remain available for further development should regulations change. If your operation is still largely manual and you need a foundation first, we often tie the project to a custom ERP system project so that the core administration and the food-specific layer work together as one.
What clients in the agri-food sector usually want to know before we start.
A no-obligation introductory conversation of half an hour. We listen to your production process and the compliance pressure you are currently facing, and give direction on what a focused project could deliver.
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