Odoo for food manufacturing: trace every batch in minutes

If a supplier flagged a bad ingredient, staff dug through folders for days to work out which finished products were affected. Auditors asked for records the team could not pull up quickly.

• Tracing a single ingredient lot to finished goods took days.
• Expiry dates were tracked by hand, so near-date stock slipped through.
• Audit prep pulled staff off the line for a week each time.
• There was no reliable link between a supplier lot and a shipped pallet.

• Each finished batch links back to the exact ingredient lots used.
• Expiry dates drive first-expiry-first-out picking automatically.
• Quality checks are recorded at set points in the production run.
• A full upstream and downstream trace runs in a few clicks.

Line staff scan lots as they go, which keeps the data accurate without slowing the run.

Go-live took eleven weeks, including a practice recall trace to prove the system end to end.

Near-date stock gets used first instead of being written off. The last audit closed with no findings on traceability, and the team prepped for it without leaving the line.