Recipes, Yield and Batch Cost in One System

The Challenge

Recipes in heads, costs in the dark

Recipes varied by shift, and batch cost was estimated rather than captured. Yield losses hid between raw material and finished goods, and because cost was a guess, nobody could say which products actually made money.

• Recipes drifted because each shift kept its own version.
• Batch cost was estimated, so margin was unclear.
• Yield losses hid in the gap between intake and output.
• Quality issues were caught late, driving rework.

The Solution

One Odoo system for recipes, quality and cost

We set up Odoo Manufacturing with master recipes, batch and quality tracking, and actual costing, so every run follows one recipe and reports its real yield and cost.

• Master recipes replace shift-by-shift versions.
• Yield measured per run against the recipe.
• Actual cost captured for every batch.
• Quality checks catch issues before packing.

How We Delivered

Rebuilt recipes with the plant team

We rebuilt the recipes with the plant team so the system matched how each product is really made, set up costing to capture material, labour and overhead per batch, and trained operators to record runs and checks as they go.

Go-live took ten weeks, including a costing review.

The Outcome

Yield in the open and margins that make sense

Yield is now a number per run, so losses surface and can be fixed. Actual batch costing showed which products earned and which lost, pricing and mix improved, and rework dropped once quality gates caught issues early.