Food ERP Consulting Services

Make Better Food ERP Decisions With the Right Expertise

With over two decades of experience serving food businesses, Folio3 FoodTech delivers ERP consulting services backed by certified NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365 consultants and deep food industry expertise. Whether you’re implementing a new ERP or addressing challenges with your existing system, we help you choose the right platform.

Trusted by Leading Food & Beverage Brands

What ERP Consulting Means for a Food Business

ERP consulting is expert help to work out what your business needs from an ERP. Whether you are choosing an ERP for the first time or trying to get more from the system you already have, our consultants review how your business and systems work, identify gaps and opportunities, and give you practical recommendations on what to improve and how to move forward.

Our team brings together certified ERP consultants and food industry experts. Since 2004, we’ve worked with 120+ food companies, helping them address their ERP and technology needs.

When Food Manufacturers Need ERP Consulting Services?

Whether you’re buying your first ERP or fixing the one you have, the choices you make affect everything from the production floor to month-end close. That’s when our food manufacturing ERP consultants, certified in NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365, help most.

Outgrown QuickBooks or spreadsheets
If spreadsheets or QuickBooks no longer give you reliable numbers, ERP selection consulting helps define what you need from a new system and compare NetSuite and Dynamics 365 before you commit.
We evaluate your existing ERP to identify what is working, where the gaps are, and which features are underused. This shows you how well your system supports batch tracking, inventory, costing, and quality.
When workflows no longer match how your operation runs, we review the process before changing the system. This ensures every change, whether new software, better setup, or a revised workflow, solves the real problem.
If your ERP project has stalled or the live system is not delivering, our consultants find the root causes and build a recovery plan, so orders, inventory, and reporting work the way they should.
New plants, acquisitions, product lines, and upgrades all create new ERP requirements. We help you plan for them early, so your system grows with your food business instead of holding it back.

Get a Single ERP Partner for Every Stage of Your Project

ERP Implementation

Turn your ERP plan into a working system, configured for recipes, lot tracking, shelf life, and costing, then tested, trained, and live without stopping production.

ERP Integration

Connect your ERP to ecommerce, POS, 3PLs, and retailer EDI using prebuilt connectors or custom APIs, so orders, inventory, and invoices flow without manual re-entry.

ERP Customization

When standard ERP features fall short, we build custom workflows to support your production processes, costing needs, and quality requirements without making future upgrades harder.

ERP Migration

Move off spreadsheets, QuickBooks, or legacy ERP, or upgrade to the latest version, with item masters, recipes, open lots, and customer pricing carried over cleanly.

ERP Rescue & Recovery

We’ve rescued 70+ ERP projects. We assess stalled, over-budget, or underperforming implementations, fix the root causes, and get your ERP project back on track.

AI Readiness & Enablement

We review your ERP data, workflows, integrations, and security to identify valuable AI use cases, readiness gaps, and suggest practical next steps for implementation.

24/7 Support & Managed Services

Get round-the-clock help from certified consultants, plus regular health checks, release updates, user training, and new features as your plants, products, and team grow.

It’s free

Our Step-by-Step ERP Consulting Approach

Food operations have their own demands, from production and inventory to quality, traceability, and costing. Our food manufacturing ERP consulting approach considers those needs before recommending how your food manufacturing ERP should support the business.

Step 1

Understanding your business & current systems

We begin by learning how your food business runs today. Conversations with your teams and site visits help us understand your goals, current systems, and daily challenges.

Step 2

Assessing your ERP, processes, and data

Next, we review your existing systems, spreadsheets, workflows, reports, and data to identify gaps and understand what a new or existing ERP needs to support.

Step 3

Recommending the right way forward

Based on these findings, our food ERP consultants recommend practical changes, from improving your current setup to connecting systems or evaluating a new ERP.

Step 4

Guiding your team through the changes

Once the direction is clear, we outline scope, priorities, and timelines, then help put the plan into action through implementation, integration, training, or ongoing support.

Get Expert Help With Your Food ERP

Book a free consultation to explore our ERP consulting services for food manufacturing. Tell us where your system is holding you back, and we’ll share practical next steps.

An ERP Investment That Shows Up on Your Bottom Line

Food manufacturing ERP consulting should protect your investment, not add unnecessary costs. We help food manufacturers avoid expensive mistakes, use the features they already pay for, and turn their ERP into a source of measurable returns.

Expertise Across Leading ERP Platforms

As a Microsoft partner and Oracle NetSuite Alliance Partner, Folio3 FoodTech brings food and beverage ERP consulting experience across both platforms. We understand the strengths of each and how they fit different food business models, operational needs, and growth plans, helping you find the right ERP fit for your business today and in the future.

Dynamics 365 Business Central

A good fit for small and mid-size food companies, especially if your team already uses Outlook, Teams, and Excel. It brings finance, purchasing, stock, production, and sales into one system that's quick to get started with.

Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations

Built for larger food manufacturers with several plants, complex recipes, and high volumes. It handles batch production, co-products and by-products, and advanced planning and warehousing out of the box.

NetSuite

A cloud ERP for growing food brands and distributors, especially those with several companies, locations, or sales channels. Finance, stock, orders, CRM, and online sales all run in one place, and it updates itself twice a year.

The Expert Team Leading Food Manufacturers Trust

Behind every consultation we provide is a team that knows both ERP and the food industry. Our certified NetSuite and Dynamics 365 consultants work alongside industry advisors, so every plan fits how your business really runs.

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Sheldon Bloom

Functional Consultant D365
Ex Delivery Manager @ SIS 

Lai-Yi Cheung

Principal Consultant
Ex Sr. Principal Consultant @ Oracle

Ashley Izundu

Senior Functional Consultant
Ex Principal Functional Consultant @ Oracle 

Hani Mamdani

ERP Consulting Manager
Ex ERP Consultant, @ Nuage

+….. 200 others

Providing ERP Consulting for Every Segment of the Food Industry

Our food ERP consulting covers every segment of the industry. Explore ERP solutions for your type of food business and find the right fit.

Our Industry Advisors

Our industry advisors bring firsthand food industry knowledge to our ERP services, connecting real operational challenges with practical technology solutions.

Kevin Manion

Industry Advisor
CFO @ Capitol Food Co

Harold Birch

Industry Advisor
Co-Founder, UnCommon Farms

Sam Cossio

Industry Advisor
CEO @ Back to Basics Consulting

See How Food Businesses Move Forward With Folio3

From growing brands to established manufacturers, food companies turn to Folio3 FoodTech for ERP guidance that delivers results. Here are a few of their stories.

Frequently Asked Questions

When Should a Food Manufacturer Consider ERP Consulting?
Consider ERP consulting when spreadsheets and disconnected systems make it difficult to track inventory, understand product costs, manage production, or get reliable reports. It can also help when you’re choosing your first ERP, expanding to new facilities, replacing legacy software, or trying to fix an underperforming system.
Replacing an ERP isn’t always the answer. An assessment can reveal whether better configuration, improved workflows, additional integrations, or more effective use of existing features will address the problem. If the current platform cannot support essential business requirements, replacing it may be the better long-term decision.
An ERP assessment reviews your current systems, business processes, data, reporting, and integrations against your operational requirements. An ERP gap analysis identifies missing capabilities, inefficient workflows, and limitations that need attention. For food manufacturers, this may include recipe management, batch traceability, inventory, yield, costing, and quality processes.
ERP selection consulting helps you compare platforms against your business requirements, rather than choosing based on features alone. Consider your company structure, production complexity, inventory needs, reporting, integrations, and future plans. Folio3 FoodTech works with Oracle NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics 365, including Business Central and Finance and Supply Chain Management, to help identify the right fit.
ERP consulting for food industry businesses must account for how ingredients, production, inventory, quality, and distribution work together. Food and beverage ERP consulting may involve assessing recipe and batch management, expiry controls, yield and product costing, lot traceability, and retailer EDI requirements alongside finance and purchasing.
We work with food manufacturers, processors, and distributors across segments including bakery, coffee, confectionery, fresh produce, frozen food, meat, seafood, sauces and dressings, and snacks. The ERP requirements vary by segment, so recommendations consider the products, processes, and distribution model of each business.
Yes. Food ERP consultants can review an existing NetSuite or Dynamics 365 environment to identify configuration issues, underused functionality, reporting gaps, and integration opportunities. The goal is to determine what can be improved within the current system before recommending additional development or a replacement.
They can. ERP consulting services for food manufacturing may start with requirements, platform selection, or an assessment of an existing system, then continue into implementation, customization, data migration, and integration. We provide ERP services across these stages, so recommendations can be carried into delivery rather than remaining a report.
Yes. ERP integration can connect systems such as Shopify, Amazon, Magento, Square POS, warehouse applications, third-party logistics providers, and retailer EDI networks. The right integration approach depends on the platforms involved and the data that needs to move, including orders, inventory, shipments, and financial transactions.
Yes. Our food industry ERP consultants can assess a troubled project to identify problems with scope, configuration, data, integrations, or project delivery. The next step may involve correcting the existing setup or planning a reimplementation. Since 2004, Folio3 has rescued more than 70 ERP projects.
AI may support demand forecasting, inventory planning, document processing, anomaly detection, and faster analysis of business data. Before recommending a use case, our consultants can assess your ERP environment, data quality, integrations, security, and business processes to identify practical opportunities and any preparation required.
The cost and duration depend on the work involved. A focused ERP review differs from a project involving multiple facilities, complex integrations, platform selection, or implementation planning. Manufacturing ERP consulting should define the scope before work begins. Book a free initial consultation with our team of certified ERP experts to discuss your requirements and determine the appropriate next steps.