Aptean AppCentral for Food & Beverage (NA)

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Aptean Food & Beverage ERP was the best solution we saw, and that’s very evident now that we’re using it on a daily basis.”
-Jerry Dugan, Controller, Pizza Joe’s

Thriving in Volatile Markets and Unpredictable

Times

Aptean’s food and beverage solutions address key pain points in the industry by enhancing efficiency, supply chain resilience and data-driven decisionmaking. Our software suite helps businesses digitize and automate processes, mitigating human error and manual record-keeping, while also ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Through real-time asset monitoring and predictive analytics, our solutions optimize performance and production speed, reducing downtime and waste. The solution suite also streamlines the supply chain, offering better forecasting and vendor management while minimizing inventory issues . These features allow food and beverage companies to stay agile in dynamic markets.

Purpose-Built by Specialized Food and Beverage Experts

Future-Proof

Software Powered by the Microsoft Cloud

Streamlined, Integrated Operations End-to End

A Single Experienced Vendor as Your Partner

AppCentral for Food & Beverage

AppCentral for Food & Beverage delivers industry-specific functionality across production, quality, compliance, distribution and more—bringing everything together in one intelligent ecosystem. Built for the complexities of food and beverage manufacturers, distributors and wholesales, it helps you monitor freshness, manage suppliers and ensure traceability at every step.

With embedded AI from Aptean Intelligence, you’re empowered with predictive visibility, time-saving automations and actionable insights— helping your operations stay agile, compliant and ready for what’s next.

AppCentral Platform Features

» Unified access to food and beverage operations suite

» Predictive quality and compliance monitoring

» Personalized AI workspaces for every role

» Automated license and user administration

» Streamlined integration and subscription control

» AI agents for expiration management and order optimization

Aptean Food & Beverage ERP

Aptean Food & Beverage ERP is ideal for companies seeking to address the complex and specialized requirements of a food and beverage business—from planning and procurement to production and quality. Our comprehensive ERP solution is uniquely tailored to meet the specific demands of the food and beverage industry, effectively managing every aspect of your business seamlessly and in an integrated way.

What’s more, our solution offers unique technology built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 online platform, ensuring reliability and scalability. Also, the software is hosted on the world’s most secure cloud, so you can expect dependable operational continuity.

Key Capabilities

» Maintain Full End-to-End Traceability

» Enable Mobile Warehouse Management

» Utilize Catch Weight Capabilities

» Implement Flexible Trade Agreements

» Leverage Production Planning and Scheduling

» Manage Customer Non-Conformances

» Enhance Quality Control

» Improve Distribution Management

Enterprise Asset Management

Aptean EAM seamlessly integrates with your other business applications, creating a unified experience that optimizes maintenance processes and asset performance. By providing real-time visibility into asset conditions, the solution enables proactive maintenance, preventing unexpected equipment failures and downtime.

Our solution also streamlines the management of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels and minimizing operational disruptions. With our EAM solution, you can improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance productivity.

Features and Functionalities

» Maintenance Scheduling: Automate and optimize maintenance procedures.

» Asset Performance Monitoring: Track performance in real-time and prevent downtime.

» Inventory Control: Efficiently manage spare parts and Inventory.

Business Intelligence

Aptean BI consolidates and analyzes data from across your organization, integrating seamlessly with other applications to provide comprehensive, real-time insights. With pre-built analytics and customizable dashboards, you can make data-driven decisions that optimize processes and enhance profitability.

Our BI solution offers transparency into production performance, resource allocation and overall operational health, enabling better strategic planning and informed decision-making for long-term success.

Features and Functionalities

» 500+ KPIs Tracked: Track essential metrics, with more than 300 sp ecific to the food and beverage industry.

» Pre-Built Dashboards: Access dashboards tailored for food and beverage manufacturing needs.

» Customizable Analytics: Create reports for specific business goals.

Electronic Data Interchange

Aptean EDI automates the exchange of critical documents between your food and beverage business and your trading partners, eliminating manual processes and ensuring accurate, real-time data transfer.

Our solution improves collaboration, speeds up transactions and reduces supply chain bottlenecks. This solution allows your company to streamline order processing, invoicing and fulfillment, ensuring seamless, reliable operations that align with industry demands.

Features and Functionalities

» Automated Document Exchange: Seamlessly exchange orders, invoices and key documents.

» Real-Time Data Synchronization: Ensure up-to-date information is shared across all partners.

» Compliance Management: Meet regulatory and trading partner standards.

Transportation Management

Aptean’s transportation management solutions automate and optimize automates and optimizes route planning, saving your staff time and minimizing costs for fuel and vehicle repairs. With real-time visibility across your distribution operations, you can minimize failed deliveries, reduce shipping errors, improve on-time deliveries and enhance customer experience.

Whether you own your private fleet, rely on carrier connections or both, we can support you in achieving the best transportation services possible.

Features and Functionalities

» Automated Route Planning: Automatically create routes for minimal mileage, reduced fuel consumption and optimized resource utilization.

» Multi-modal, Multi-carrier Management: Shop for the best carrier rates to protect your margins.

» Live Execution Tracking: Monitor vehicles and delivery performance. in real time.

Product Lifecycle Management

Aptean PLM Lascom Edition allows businesses to seamlessly manage the many interconnected elements of new product development to design appealing offerings and accelerate time to market. Our solution centralizes and integrates data, workflows, teams and systems across your business in order to provide a single source of truth.

Facilitate innovation, reduce costs and accelerate growth. Our solution is designed specifically for the food and beverage industry, with features for formulation, compliance, packaging and more.

Features and Functionalities

» Formulation Tool: Streamline recipe development and optimize specs and costs effortlessly.

» Label Management: Auto-generate and verify claims with ease.

» Portfolio Management: Improve agility and responsiveness to new consumer demands or trends.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Aptean OEE provides complete visibility into manufacturing operations and gives businesses the ability to see performance data in real time and empower teams to act upon it immediately.

Our solution helps optimize production and collaboration across the entire business. With full visibility from batching through to packaging, you can leverage up-to-date metrics for plan attainment and units per human hour to help you build a culture of continuous improvement.

Features and Functionalities

» Real-Time Performance Metrics: Measure plan attainment and OEE as production occurs.

» Continuous Improvement: Track and improve changeover, clean in progress (CIP) and sanitation times.

» Loss and Waste Monitoring: Pinpoint manufacturing issues causing loss for rectification.

Aptean Intelligence for Food & Beverage

AI That Understands Your Business. And Powers It.

Aptean Intelligence embeds AI directly into your applications, workflows and workspaces, turning everyday work into intelligent action.

Ask natural-language questions about your data, develop agents without coding, automate workflows and access executive-ready insights, so your teams move faster, protect margins and deliver better customer outcomes without waiting on reports or custom development.

Key Benefits

» Replace static decks and spreadsheets with realtime answers and digests, helping you go from data to decisions more quickly

» Automate with event-driven workflows to eliminate manual handoffs across your systems

» Use prebuilt agents and workflows that reflect manufacturing & distribution realities so you see impact faster

GenAI Query

Ask questions in plain language and get, realtime answers and charts; no BI queue, no spreadsheets. This feature gives every role a faster path from data to decision, reducing reporting delays and revealing issues before they grow.

» Ask questions to get natural-language answers with instant visualizations

» Pin favorites for a live, personal pulse

» Speak to chat/voice assistant with oneclick share/export

Intelligent Workflows

Enable no/low-code, event-driven automation that listens for business signals and orchestrates cross-system actions in real time. Replace firefighting with automated workflows and human-in-the-loop approvals that cut manual effort and protect margin.

» Deploy real-time event triggers across systems (350+ connectors)

» Set up AI-driven steps + human-in-theloop approvals

» Leverage reusable templates with full audit trails

Role-Based Workspace

Enable all staff with an AI-first, role-based workspaces that offer daily digests, naturallanguage Q&A and instant drilldowns. Get a live pulse of your business and one-tap delegation to move decisions forward— anytime, anywhere.

» Distribute AI-driven daily digests by role and topic

» Find answers via natural-language Q&A with instant drill-downs

» Stay agile with one-tap delegation and mobile/voice access

Predictive Intelligence

Get ahead of issues before they happen. Predictive Intelligence uses machine learning to detect risks, forecast downtime and recommend proactive actions, so your teams can plan, not react.

» Analyze live and historical data to predict unplanned events and performance trends

» Implement real-time alerts and probability scoring flag issues early

» Drive continuous improvement of selflearning models through user feedback

Aptean Intelligence for Food & Beverage

AI Agents That Keep Production, Suppliers and Cash Flow in Sync.

Aptean AI Agents bring proactive automation to food and beverage operations—monitoring freshness, supplier performance and financial processes. Each agent is purpose-built for the industry’s unique pace, compliance needs and quality standards, ensuring decisions happen faster and with greater consistency.

Use Cases

» Prevent spoilage and waste by automatically flagging items nearing expiration

» Monitor vendor performance with real-time scorecards and delivery metrics

» Automate accounts receivable reminders and payment updates to protect cash flow

» Use GenAI-powered queries to surface key insights instantly, such as “Which SKUs are at risk of expiration?”

AI Agents deliver fresher inventory, stronger supplier reliability and faster financial cycles, all without added manual effort.

Key Benefits

» Reduced Waste: Anticipate expiration risks and optimize stock rotation

» Supplier Visibility: Track vendor reliability and quality automatically

» Cash Flow Efficiency: Accelerate collections and improves working capital control

» Connected Operations: Link production, planning and finance data for faster decisions

» Built for Food & Beverage: Embed compliance and shelf-life logic ensure accuracy and confidence

“ We’ve been on a journey, transforming the way our company works. That’s been coupled with an increasing use of technology. Where Aptean comes into the picture is, they help us connect all these different satellite systems and understand the end-to-end flow much better.”
-Dinesh Hedge, CIO, Ready Foods

Trusted and Proven

Aptean’s cloud-native food and beverage ERP system is built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform and comes with built-in AI capabilities.

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New Features & Functionalities Added in the Last 3 Years

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Food & Beverage Users Around the World 1.5K+ Global Food & Beverage Customers 30+ Years of Development in the Industry

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