Inventory Management Built for Food & Beverage Manufacturers
Track lots from receiving dock to shipping. Maintain FDA/FSMA compliance with master batch records. Manage expiration dates, recipes, and production with real-time visibility across your entire operation.
The Challenges Food & Beverage Manufacturers Face Daily
Managing inventory, production, and regulatory compliance with spreadsheets and generic software creates costly problems that affect your bottom line and put your business at risk.
FDA Audit Anxiety
When FDA or third-party auditors arrive, scrambling to piece together lot traceability documentation from spreadsheets and paper records wastes valuable time and increases compliance risk.
Recall Response Takes Days, Not Hours
Tracing affected lots forward and backward through your supply chain manually takes far too long. Every hour of delay during a recall increases liability and brand damage.
Expiration & FIFO Failures
Without automated expiration date tracking and FIFO enforcement, expired ingredients get used in production or finished goods expire on shelves—costly waste either way.
Recipe Changes Create Chaos
Managing recipe versions, scaling formulas for different batch sizes, and ensuring production uses the correct version is nearly impossible with spreadsheets.
Sales and Production Disconnect
Sales commits to orders without knowing true inventory availability or production capacity. The result: missed deliveries, rush production, and unhappy customers.
No Visibility Into True Costs
Without accurate tracking of ingredient usage, labor, and waste per batch, you are guessing at product costs and margins instead of managing them.
How Fiddle Solves Your Food Manufacturing Challenges
Built specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, Fiddle delivers the compliance, traceability, and production tools you need—without the complexity of enterprise systems.
One-Click Lot Traceability
Track every ingredient from supplier receipt through finished goods shipment. Run forward or backward lot traces in seconds. Be audit-ready every day.
Learn more →Master Batch Records
Create FDA-compliant batch records with ingredient lists, procedures, quality checkpoints, and digital sign-offs. Maintain complete version history automatically.
Learn more →Expiration Date Management
Automatic expiration date tracking with FIFO/FEFO enforcement. Get alerts before ingredients or products expire. Reduce waste and ensure quality.
Recipe & Formula Management
Multi-level bills of materials with automatic scaling for different batch sizes. Manage recipe versions and ensure production always uses the current formula.
Learn more →Visual Production Planning
Kanban-style work order management with real-time ingredient allocation. Know exactly what you can produce based on current inventory.
Learn more →Connect Your Existing Tools
Seamless integrations with QuickBooks, Shopify, Amazon, and other platforms. No more manual data entry between systems.
Features Built for Food & Beverage Compliance
Everything you need to manage production, maintain compliance, and grow your food or beverage business in one platform.
Complete Lot Traceability for FSMA Compliance
Achieve full forward and backward traceability from raw ingredient receipt through finished goods shipment. Meet FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Section 204 requirements with detailed lot documentation.
- Automatic lot number generation with customizable formats
- Supplier lot number capture and linkage
- Forward trace: find all products containing a specific ingredient lot
- Backward trace: identify all ingredients in a finished product lot
- One-click recall simulation reports for audit preparation
Master Batch Records with Digital Sign-offs
Create standardized production records that meet FDA and GMP requirements. Include ingredient specifications, processing procedures, quality checkpoints, and operator sign-offs—all with complete audit trails.
- Template-based batch record creation for consistency
- Step-by-step procedure documentation with time stamps
- Quality checkpoint recording (temperature, pH, weight, etc.)
- Digital operator signatures with authentication
- Automatic version control with complete revision history
Shelf Life & Expiration Management
Never use expired ingredients or ship expired products again. Fiddle tracks expiration dates at the lot level and enforces FIFO or FEFO picking automatically during production allocation.
- Expiration date tracking for all inventory lots
- FIFO/FEFO enforcement during production allocation
- Configurable alerts before lot expiration
- Automatic hold status for expired lots
- Shelf life reporting and waste reduction analytics
Explore Key Features for Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Discover how Fiddle's purpose-built features help food & beverage manufacturing manufacturers streamline operations, maintain compliance, and grow their business.
Lot Tracking & Traceability Software
Track lots from receiving to shipping for FDA/FSMA compliance and rapid recall response.
Learn More →Batch Record Management
Create FDA-compliant master batch records with digital sign-offs and complete audit trails.
Learn More →Recipe & BOM Management
Manage recipes and formulas with automatic scaling and version control.
Learn More →Production Planning Software
Visual work order management with ingredient allocation and FIFO enforcement.
Learn More →Solutions for Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Explore how Fiddle's specialized solutions help food & beverage manufacturing businesses solve their unique challenges and achieve operational excellence.
Lot Traceability
Track every ingredient lot from receiving through production to shipping for FDA/FSMA compliance and rapid recall response.
Learn about Lot Traceability →Batch Record Management
Create FDA-compliant master batch records with digital sign-offs, quality checkpoints, and complete audit trails.
Explore Batch Records →Expiration Tracking
Automated expiration date management with FIFO/FEFO enforcement to reduce waste and ensure product quality.
See Expiration Tracking →FDA cGMP Compliance
Built-in compliance controls for FDA food safety regulations and Good Manufacturing Practice requirements.
View Compliance Features →Production Scheduling
Visual production planning with ingredient allocation and real-time capacity management.
Discover Production Scheduling →Bill of Materials
Multi-level recipe and formula management with automatic scaling for different batch sizes.
Explore BOM Management →Trusted by Food & Beverage Manufacturers
See why leading food and beverage brands choose Fiddle for their inventory, production, and compliance needs.
Our first FDA audit after implementing Fiddle was a breeze. The auditor asked for a lot trace, and we had the complete forward and backward trace report in under 30 seconds. Previously that would have taken us hours.
We eliminated 15+ hours per week of spreadsheet work tracking ingredients, lots, and production. Fiddle pays for itself many times over just in labor savings, not counting the compliance benefits.
The batch record system finally gave us a reliable way to document our production process. Recipe scaling, procedures, quality checks—it is all in one place now. Our third-party auditor was very impressed.
Trusted by leading brands
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