Every batch, every date code, traceable to the shelf.
Ingredients by lot and expiry, recipes with wastage, production lines and their downtime, recalls and GST. Tathven Agentic ERP runs a food processor from raw ingredient to dispatched carton.
Cleaning, sorting, blending and packing for others.
The pain points
And how Tathven answers each one
Ingredients, lots and safety
1
Short shelf lives and the wrong lot picked
The pain
Ingredients and finished goods expire fast. The newest lot is picked first, and old stock is found when it has already gone off.
How Tathven solves it
Items can be batch-tracked and marked perishable, with a shelf life and a minimum shelf life on receipt, so short-dated deliveries are caught at the door. Goods issue picks first-expiry-first, and expiry is worked out from the manufacture date. A weekly mail lists the lots close to expiry.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “which lots expire in the next 30 days, and where are they?”
2
A recall that reaches back to the supplier
The pain
A supplier’s ingredient lot is suspect. Finding every finished batch that used it, and every customer that received them, takes days.
How Tathven solves it
Each finished lot is linked to the ingredient lots it used. The recall view starts from your lot or the supplier’s batch code and traces it to every customer and parcel. Customer returns go back against the lots they were dispatched from.
3
Checks before ingredients are used
The pain
An ingredient is used before anyone checks it.
How Tathven solves it
Quality-controlled items arrive on hold until a person with the clearance right releases them, with a reason. Defect reports, ready with types such as foreign body, undeclared allergen, underfill and wrong date coding, carry the root cause and corrective and preventive actions. A Pareto view shows which defects keep coming back.
Recipes, lines and costs
4
Recipes in a notebook
The pain
Recipes live in a notebook, and every batch uses a little more of everything.
How Tathven solves it
Each product has a bill of materials per operation, with the wastage you expect at each step, normalised to a batch quantity. A recipe used by a live production order is locked, so it cannot change mid-batch. Operations come ready for food processing, from cleaning and sorting to carton packing.
5
Lines that stop, and nobody writes down why
The pain
A line stops for sanitation, an allergen changeover or a metal-detector reject, and the reason is never recorded.
How Tathven solves it
Mixers, ovens, fryers, form-fill-seal machines and retorts are set up as work centres with their calendars. The shop floor screen starts, pauses and stops runs with the reason for every stop, and downtime reasons come ready, including allergen changeover, line sanitation and metal-detector hold. Utilisation and OEE show how much of each line’s time made good product.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “how much downtime did the packing line have this week, and why?”
6
What a carton really costs
The pain
Ingredient prices move with the season, and the cost on file is months old.
How Tathven solves it
Costing orders work out the cost of a batch from the recipe, wastage and overhead. The cost-drift view shows which products have moved away from their standard cost.
7
An ingredient runs out mid-production
The pain
A key ingredient runs out and the line stops.
How Tathven solves it
Material planning works out what open orders need against stock and open purchases, and proposes purchase and production orders for you to confirm. Reorder suggestions reach the buyer in time.
✨ How the agentic ERP helps
Ask “what should I reorder this week?” and the assistant prepares the purchase order for you to confirm.
Sales and GST
8
Distributors on credit, retailers paying first
The pain
Distributors want credit, and goods leave before anyone checks the money.
How Tathven solves it
Every buyer has its own credit days and limit, and an order is cleared for dispatch only when it is paid or within credit terms. Discount schemes are set once and attached to the buyer.
9
GST across food products
The pain
Bakery, dairy, beverages and packaged food carry different GST rates.
How Tathven solves it
A food-processing HSN catalogue, updated for the September 2025 rates, sets the rate by product type. GST returns are built from the tax ledger, and purchases are reconciled against GSTR-2B.
10
An assistant that knows every lot
The pain
Every question needs a report.
How Tathven solves it
Tathven’s AI assistant answers from your own data:
lots near expiry;
downtime;
stock;
cost drift.
It prepares purchase orders and moves documents through approval, each on a card you confirm.
Feature by feature
What you get
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Lots and expiry
Batch tracking, perishables, minimum shelf life on receipt, first-expiry picking, near-expiry mails.
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Traceability
Finished lots linked to ingredient lots, recall to customer, returns to the dispatched lot.
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Quality
Holds and release, defect reports with food defect types, CAPA, Pareto.
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Recipes
Bills of materials per operation with wastage, locked while in production.
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Lines
Work centres for mixers, ovens, fryers, FFS and retorts, shop floor runs, food downtime reasons, utilisation and OEE.
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Costing and planning
Costing orders, cost drift, material planning, reorder suggestions.
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Sales and tax
Credit terms, discount schemes, food HSN catalogue, GST returns from the ledger.
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Agentic ERP
An assistant that answers and prepares, for you to confirm.
Tathven Agentic ERP
Start with your next batch.
Bring your recipes, your lines and your distributors. Tathven Agentic ERP brings the rest. Choose Inventory or Manufacturing, and grow without changing systems.
