Food & Beverage
Run the Line. Pass the Check. Trace the Lot.
Production, quality, maintenance, supply and traceability on one operating system. Built for food.
Nulogy's Manufacturing Operating System connects what runs on your lines, what your QA team verifies, and what your suppliers send you — whether the brand on the pack is yours or your customer's. Book a demo and we will show you it running on your kind of lines.
The Problem With Buying by Category
In Food, Nothing Stays in Its Own System
Every plant buys software by category — a QMS here, an OEE tool there, a supplier portal somewhere else. In most industries that is merely inefficient. In food it breaks, because the events do not respect the category boundaries.
The line has to hold until QA signs it off. When quality and production live in different systems, that hold is a phone call and a hope, and the proof that you caught it lives on a paper sheet somebody has to find later.
The lot has to lock before anyone consumes it. When COAs land in an inbox and get checked against the spec by hand, the lock happens after the run, not before it.
This is not a quality task. It is a scheduling decision that costs line time, and if the sequence is planned without it, you pay for the changeover twice.
You have 24 hours and a sortable format. The answer lives in receiving, production and shipping simultaneously — which is exactly why exporting three systems into a spreadsheet takes three days.
One operating system is not a packaging preference. In food it is how the work already behaves — the software is just the last thing to catch up.
What We Cover
Six Moments. One System.
Every one of these runs on the same supplier records, the same lots and the same asset tree. That is what separates an operating system from a set of logins.
The Line Is Running
You manage what you can see, and most plants only see the big stoppages. A machine down three or four minutes never gets recorded, and across a shift those micro-stops add up — in lost line time and in the ripple down to the next station. Smart Factory reads counts off your equipment minute by minute, so capacity becomes a number instead of an instinct, and product-line profitability becomes something you can actually calculate. If you are packing to somebody else's brand, Shop Floor runs the job itself: labor, materials, yield, and cost per order.
The Check Has To Pass
Pre-op inspections, GMP checks, sanitation sign-offs, CCP verifications, allergen changeovers. Your operators run them on a tablet with photos and timestamps instead of a clipboard, and every record lands against the line, the shift and the lot. Metal detection is logged automatically across ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless test pieces — and when a check fails, the line holds until QA releases it. Not a phone call. A state change.
The Material Has To Be Clean Before It's Used
Certificates of Analysis are parsed against your live specifications on arrival rather than read afterward. Out of tolerance raises a non-conformance, notifies procurement and locks the lot. Supplier certificates, Letters of Guarantee, allergen statements and HACCP summaries stay current on their own, and expiring documents chase the supplier instead of your team. Seasonal suppliers and small producers get a portal they can actually complete, so a category reset is not held up by a missing insurance certificate.
In a food plant, the quality event and the production event are the same event. Only the software pretends otherwise.
The Equipment Has To Be Ready
In a food plant, maintenance windows compete with sanitation windows, and both compete with the schedule. Preventive and condition-based work orders sit against the same asset tree as your inspections and calibrations, so an overdue calibration is visible to the person planning the run instead of being discovered during the audit. Every room, line and piece of equipment carries its own history.
The Lot Has To Be Provable
Critical tracking events and key data elements are captured as product moves, not reconstructed after the fact. A mock recall runs from finished goods back to ingredient lots and forward to the customers who received them, with quantities and ship-to detail attached. FSMA 204 gives you 24 hours and asks for a sortable format; this is what makes that a routine request instead of three days of exports and phone calls.
The Customer Is on the Phone
Whether the caller is a brand you pack for or a retail account you supply, the question is the same: where is my order, what is the inventory position, and can you fit this change in. Today that answer costs a walk to the floor and two callbacks. With the job, the labor, the materials and the quality record sitting in one place, your team answers it on the call — and when the question is about a complaint rather than an order, the spec, the line check and the lot behind it are attached to the same record. Co-packers win RFPs on this. Manufacturers keep accounts on it.
Six moments, one record. A supplier's certificate, the lot it cleared, the line that ran it and the trace that proves it are the same data — not four integrations you maintain.
Nulogy Intelligence
Nora Reads What the System Already Knows
Connected data is what makes AI useful in a plant. Nora works on the operating record you are already creating — production counts, quality checks, supplier documents, lot genealogy — so the answers come from what actually happened on your lines, not from a dashboard somebody built last quarter.
Start Where You Are
Where You Sit in the Chain
You are either making your own brands or making somebody else's, and often both. The operating system is the same; the first module is not.
We Make Our Own Brands
Food and beverage manufacturers and processors running your own lines, with quality, maintenance and traceability obligations all sitting on the same equipment.
- Smart Factory — OEE, micro-stops, real capacity
- Quality & Compliance — HACCP, CCPs, metal detection
- Maintenance — preventive and condition-based
- Track & Trace — lot genealogy and FSMA 204
We Pack and Make for Other Brands
Co-packers and contract manufacturers running other people's product, judged on OTIF, cost per unit, and how fast you can answer your customer's question.
- Shop Floor — jobs, labor, materials, yield, cost
- Smart Factory — minute-by-minute line coverage
- Quality & Compliance — customer and GFSI programs
- Supplier Compliance — your own inbound supply base
Distributing it rather than making it? Foodservice distribution runs on a different set of obligations — vendor approval at scale and receive-from / ship-to records across every DC.
See Foodservice Distribution →Proof
What It Has Done in Food Plants
OEE Gain in Nine Months
Louisiana Fish Fry put Smart Factory on its own lines and turned instinct about capacity into a measured number.
Smart Factory · Own plants
Less Recall Reporting Time
Prism eLogistics took recall reporting from nine hours to twenty minutes — the same exercise, run against a record instead of a filing cabinet.
Shop Floor · Co-pack
Sites Under One Program
North America's largest foodservice distributor standardized food safety, quality and supplier programs across 180+ sites and 2,000+ supplier facilities, with 100% supplier adoption on the portal and $10M in procurement efficiencies.
Quality & Compliance · Supplier Compliance
“Our customers come to us asking for fast changes. With Nulogy, we're able to make those changes up front and that flows through the rest of our organization.”
Patrick McGovern, Director of Supply Chain, Bell-Carter PackagingPrograms and Regulations
It Already Speaks Your Auditor's Language
Inspection templates, evidence packs and document control map to the schemes you are already held to — and to the customer-specific programs that never fit a generic form builder.
Questions We Get
Before You Book Anything
We already have an ERP and a QMS. Where does this actually sit?
Below the ERP and closer to the line than a QMS reaches. The ERP owns orders, recipes and financials; it does not know that a metal detector check failed twelve minutes ago. Nulogy runs the execution and verification layer — what ran, who checked it, what the supplier sent, which lot it became — and integrates back to the ERP, WMS and MES so the systems of record stay the systems of record.
Will our suppliers actually use the portal?
This is the right question to ask, and the honest answer is that most supplier portals fail on exactly this. Our reference point is 100% supplier adoption across a supply base of more than 2,000 facilities — including the seasonal suppliers and small producers who are usually the ones that stall. Bring us your hardest supplier and we will talk through what onboarding them looks like.
Do we have to buy the whole operating system at once?
No. Most food companies start with the module tied to whatever is currently costing them the most — supplier onboarding, line visibility, or the recall clock — and add from there. Because the modules share supplier records, lots and the asset tree, the second one is a configuration rather than an integration project.
Our products aren't on the FDA Food Traceability List. Is traceability still relevant?
Often yes, for a commercial reason rather than a regulatory one. Distributors, grocers and foodservice customers are pushing continuous traceability requirements down the chain regardless of whether your SKU is a covered food, and a mock recall you can run in minutes is a line item in an RFP. That said, if traceability is not your pressure point, vendor management usually is — and it stands on its own.
We run USDA FSIS-inspected protein, not FDA-regulated product. Does that change things?
It changes which evidence you need and who asks for it, not whether the system fits. FSIS oversight, in-plant inspectors and a different HACCP regime are handled the same way as FDA preventive controls: digital checks against your own program, timestamped evidence, and an audit pack you can produce without a war room. Protein products also sit outside the Food Traceability List, so the traceability conversation is usually customer-driven for you rather than regulator-driven.
What about environment, health and safety?
Nulogy EHS covers incident and near-miss management, digital safety and environmental inspections, permit-to-work control, and environmental reporting. It is a separate module rather than part of the food safety story on this page, and it is most often bought by multi-site operations with significant chemical, confined-space or contractor exposure. Ask about it on the demo if it is on your list.
How long before it is doing something useful?
Weeks, not quarters, for the first module — and we would rather show you than promise you. Bring your hardest problem to the demo. We will tell you what the system does about it and what it does not.
Bring Us Your Hardest Line
Tell us what is costing you the most right now — the recall clock, the supplier paperwork, the four hours Line 3 loses every week. We will show you what the operating system does about it, and what it does not.