Lot & batch traceability
Forward and backward trace from any lot to suppliers and customers. Recall simulation in minutes, not days. Audit-ready records.
Odoo for US food & beverage, traceable from supplier to shipment.
Food and beverage runs on traceability and shelf life, and most F&B operators are stitching it together with spreadsheets. Odoo gives you forward and backward lot traceability, FEFO picking, recall simulation, recipe and co-packer costing, and quality control, on the same platform as your finance and inventory.
500K+
Employees · largest Odoo HR engagement
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Odoo implementations
20 yrs
Enterprise delivery from Virginia
In food and beverage, traceability isn't a feature, it's the whole job.
Every food and beverage operator lives under the same two pressures: shelf life and traceability. A lot of expired raw material, a missed allergen, or a recall you can't trace in hours is an existential event, not an inconvenience. Most small and mid-size F&B makers manage this with a patchwork, QuickBooks for finance, spreadsheets for batches, a separate tool for inventory, and the seams are exactly where traceability breaks.
Odoo consolidates it. Full forward and backward lot/batch traceability means that from any finished-goods lot you can trace every raw-material lot and supplier that went into it, and from any raw-material lot you can find every finished lot and customer it reached, the backward and forward trace a recall demands. FEFO (first-expired-first-out) picking enforces shelf-life discipline automatically, expiration alerts flag at-risk stock, and quality-control checkpoints gate receiving, production, and shipping.
Beyond compliance, F&B operators get the operational wins: recipe and bill-of-materials costing (including yield loss and co-packer fees), catch-weight handling, multi-UoM (you buy in pallets, produce in batches, sell in cases and eaches), production planning against shelf life, and landed-cost on imported ingredients. We've delivered manufacturing and inventory traceability at scale under ISO 12207 + ISO 27001 governance, the same discipline applied to a 40-SKU sauce maker as to a multi-plant operation.
What Odoo runs in F&B
Shelf life, traceability, and cost, handled.
FEFO & expiration
First-expired-first-out picking, expiration alerts, removal-date control, and quarantine handling for at-risk stock.
FSMA 204 readiness
Key Data Element capture at Critical Tracking Events designed into receiving, production, and shipping, with the sortable export the rule expects.
Recipe & yield costing
BOM/recipe costing with yield loss, catch-weight, co-packer fees, and landed cost on imported ingredients.
Quality control
QC checkpoints at receipt, in-process, and pre-ship; COA capture; supplier scorecards; non-conformance and CAPA tracking.
Multi-UoM & channels
Buy in pallets, make in batches, sell in cases/eaches; DSD, distributor, retail, and e-commerce channels on one inventory.
, Questions
Odoo for food & beverage, what teams ask.
Does Odoo handle lot traceability and recalls?
Yes, this is core Odoo and the most common reason F&B operators adopt it. Full forward/backward lot tracking lets you trace any finished lot back to every ingredient lot and supplier, and any ingredient lot forward to every customer shipment. Odoo's traceability report runs a recall scope in minutes; we configure the workflow so the data is captured during normal operations.
Can Odoo help us meet FSMA Rule 204?
Yes. We configure Key Data Element capture at each Critical Tracking Event (receiving, transformation, shipping) using Odoo lot tracking plus custom fields, and set up the sortable electronic export the rule requires within 24 hours of a request. Odoo isn't a turnkey 'FSMA button' out of the box, the value is that we design the CTE/KDE capture into your real process so compliance is a byproduct, not a separate system.
Does Odoo support catch-weight and multi-unit-of-measure?
Yes. Catch-weight (variable weight per unit), multiple units of measure per product, and UoM conversions are handled, essential for proteins, produce, and bulk ingredients where you buy, produce, and sell in different units.
We're small, is Odoo overkill for a 30-SKU operation?
Not if traceability and shelf life matter, which in food they always do. A focused Odoo deployment (inventory + traceability + basic manufacturing + finance) is right-sized for small makers and far cheaper than the spreadsheet-plus-bolt-on stack once you count the recall and compliance risk. We'll scope the smallest deployment that covers your obligations.
Are you a certified Odoo partner?
Certified Odoo partner since 2012. ISO 12207 + ISO 27001 group-level certifications. 50+ implementations including a 500K-employee national-government engagement.
How do I get started?
30-minute discovery call → paid 2-4 week structured discovery → written solution design + firm fixed-fee proposal. The discovery fee is refundable against the implementation if you proceed.
Scope a food & beverage Odoo rollout with traceability built in.
30-min discovery → structured discovery → phased rollout. Lot traceability, FEFO, FSMA 204 readiness, and recipe costing on one platform.
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