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Straight answers for people who run food factories
Every article here answers one specific question that comes up in a dairy or food plant — wastage, yield, costing, traceability, ERP selection, or what an owner should look at each morning. Formulas are shown with worked examples in rupees, and we say plainly where our own product is the wrong choice.
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Latest · ERP partnerships
How to evaluate an ERP reseller or distributor partner program
A practical checklist for IT companies, consultants and technology providers assessing an ERP reseller, distributor or channel-partner opportunity without assuming commissions, exclusivity or leads.
Short answer:Evaluate an ERP partner program as a customer-delivery business, not a commission offer. Confirm which customers you can serve, what role you will play across discovery, sales, onboarding and support, what enablement is provided, and how commercial terms are documented. The best fit is a vendor whose product, target market and operating model match your existing customer relationships and capability to build a lasting local practice.
Updated 10 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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ERP partnerships
How technology providers can add ERP to their customer offering responsibly
A practical operating model for IT companies, consultants and software providers that want to add ERP to their service portfolio while protecting customer trust and delivery quality.
Answers: How can a technology provider add ERP services to its customer offering responsibly?
Updated 10 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Costing & metrics
How to cost a manufactured food product correctly, including by-product allocation
How to build a defensible per-kilo cost for a manufactured food product: what belongs in material, conversion and overhead, the three ways to allocate by-product value, and why costing at recipe rate instead of batch actual hides most margin leaks.
Answers: How do you calculate the cost of a manufactured food product?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
Compliance & traceability
Batch traceability and mock recall for a dairy or food plant, in four hours
What batch traceability actually requires in a food or dairy plant, how to run a bidirectional mock recall, the seven data links that must never break, and the exact drill to prove your traceability works before an inspector or a customer tests it for you.
Answers: How do you set up batch traceability and run a mock recall in a food plant?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
Business operations
The five-minute owner dashboard: run your business without doing everything yourself
The five things a manufacturing business owner should see every morning — money, sales, purchase, inventory and production, and alerts — plus the daily, weekly and monthly review rhythm and the ownership map that stops everything routing through you.
Answers: How should a business owner manage a manufacturing business more efficiently?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
Costing & metrics
Yield, wastage and by-product formulas every food factory should track
Every yield, wastage, rework, give-away and by-product formula a food or dairy plant needs, with worked examples in paneer, ghee, curd and bakery — plus the definition traps that make two departments report different numbers for the same batch.
Answers: What are the formulas for yield, wastage and by-product recovery in food manufacturing?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
ERP workflow
The ideal ERP workflow for a food manufacturing business, enquiry to GST return
The complete transaction chain a food or dairy factory should run inside one system — 14 stages from customer enquiry and raw-material purchase through batch production, QC, dispatch, collections and GST returns, with the data each stage must capture.
Answers: What is the ideal ERP workflow for a food manufacturing business?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
ERP selection
Best ERP for food manufacturing in India: an honest shortlist and how to test it
A candid comparison of BatchMaster, Odoo, ERPNext, Infor F&B, Dynamics 365, NetSuite, SAP Business One, Tally and naffo.tech for Indian food and dairy manufacturers — with the single demo script that eliminates the wrong ones in one meeting.
Answers: Which ERP is best for a food manufacturing business in India?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 13 min read
Manufacturing & wastage
How to reduce wastage in a food factory (batch-wise system that actually holds)
A batch-wise operating system for cutting wastage in a food or dairy factory: the seven places loss hides, the exact formulas for yield and wastage cost, tolerance limits per loss type, and the Wastage & Yield dashboard to run it from.
Answers: How do you reduce wastage in a food factory?
Updated 8 Aug 2026 · 12 min read
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