Frozen Food ERP Software for Manufacturers
Whether you're producing ready meals, frozen vegetables, or specialty frozen goods, Sutton is built to handle the operational complexity your business runs on.
Frozen food ERP software that keeps every batch traceable
As your order volumes grow and SKU counts increase, spreadsheets melt under the heat as you spend more time correcting mistakes in your data and managing stock rotations manually.
Your freezers are empty
If looking at your stock levels is like staring into muddy water, you won’t be able to schedule production, wasting time, food, and opportunity.
You’re losing track of items
If quality issues keep occurring or an audit needs to be performed, you’ll be lost at sea without lot-level traceability, and your reputation will take the hit.
You’re guessing expiration dates
If the smell of spoiled food hits you when you walk into storage, it’s time to put aside the spreadsheets to spare your finances and senses.
ERP software for frozen food companies that need traceability
With Sutton, you can plan production, record lots, and balance stock levels to meet demand. Every movement from receiving to packing is updated live for easy tracking.
Real-time inventory visibility
See where your inventory is at any given moment, so you know what’s in transit, what’s committed to production, and what items are ready to be shipped out to your clients.
Batch and lot traceability
Track every ingredient, batch, and finished product with a full audit trail from receiving to shipment. Sutton gives you full end-to-end traceability so you can locate all your items.
Multi-level recipes for production
Get accurate costing of every batch you produce based on your product recipes, and build your product composition up to 10 levels deep with version tracking for audits or revisions.
One platform for production, inventory, and purchasing
Connect purchasing, inventory, and production, so your team can plan, produce, and ship products without the drama of managing these processes manually.
Managing your product recipes and batches
Sutton is frozen food ERP software that gives all your teams and departments a better way to cooperate and manage everything from receiving ingredients to shipping products.
Inventory Visibility and Control
You’ll know if there’s a fish or a lasagna hidden inside a freezer without ever having to open it. Sutton helps you manage stock across multiple locations, warehouses, and bin locations with live inventory counts that keep inventory levels accurate across your entire supply chain. So wherever something is stored, whether it's raw materials or committed to a location, you can track it.
- Track inventory across multiple locations and bins
- Clear visibility into raw material, WIP, and finished goods inventory
- Set alerts for minimum stock thresholds to avoid stockouts
- See the quantity and value of all SKUs across all locations
Lot Tracking and Traceability
Regardless of what comes out at the end of a production run, ERP software for frozen food companies tells you exactly what went into the finished product. Sutton gives food manufacturers full end-to-end traceability of their supply chain to help businesses stay audit-ready at the drop of a hat.
- Assign lot numbers to manufacturing and purchase orders
- Track and trace batches regardless of where they’re stored
- Monitor expiry dates and optimize shelf life management
- Support FIFO inventory management and make sure the oldest items are used first
Recipe and Formula Management
Frozen food formulas have a lot of moving parts, and Sutton keeps them connected. Build recipes with proteins, vegetables, sauces, and seasonings as sub-recipes up to 10 levels deep, and update a formula without losing its history. Cost roll-up shows the true cost of each product as ingredient prices change, and batch scaling adjusts quantities for every run size.
- Build sub-recipes up to 10 levels deep
- Keep every recipe version and its history
- Roll up costs from ingredients to finished product
- Scale recipes for different run sizes without manual math
Every capability built for a frozen food production floor
Sutton gives frozen food teams one place to manage ingredients, recipes, production, and orders, so every product can be traced from the receiving dock to the finished frozen good.
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- Multi-Location Inventory Track stock across locations, warehouses, and bin locations with live inventory counts.
- Inventory Quantity and Value See the quantity and value of every SKU across all locations.
- Minimum Stock Alerts Set alerts for minimum stock thresholds to avoid stockouts.
- Lot Numbers on Orders Assign lot numbers to manufacturing and purchase orders.
- Batch Tracing Track and trace batches regardless of where they are stored.
- Expiry and Shelf Life Monitor expiry dates and manage shelf life from receiving to shipment.
- FIFO Stock Rotation Support FIFO inventory management so the oldest items are used first.
- Serialized Tracking and Custom Fields Assign unique IDs to inventory and batches, and track any other data point with custom fields.
- Multi-Level Recipes Build proteins, vegetables, sauces, and seasonings as sub-recipes up to 10 levels deep.
- Recipe Versions Keep every recipe version and its history for audits and revisions.
- Cost Roll-Up Roll up costs from ingredients to finished product as ingredient prices change.
- Batch Scaling Scale recipes for different run sizes without manual math.
- Manufacturing and Work Orders See what is done, in progress, and ready to ship, with finished goods inventory updating automatically as runs complete.
- Routing and Workstations Manage the shop floor with routing and workstation assignment.
- Expected vs Actual Output Track expected versus actual output as it happens.
- Planning and Replenishment See on-hand and on-order quantities side by side, and create purchase orders straight from replenishment signals.
Everything you need to run your operations with Sutton.
One platform for inventory, production and purchasing, with Studio to build your own apps and Intelligence to show you what needs attention.
Run every operation from one system
Inventory, purchasing, production and sales orders share the same live data, so every team works from one source of truth.
Build your own apps in plain English
Describe the screen, report or automation you need and Studio builds it on your live data in minutes. Prefer a hand? Our team builds it with you.
See what needs attention before it costs you
Sutton Intelligence turns your live operations data into insights, so you can spot shortages, delays and margin issues early.
Yes.
Three critical materials are projected to run out within the next seven days:
I recommend reordering all three items now to avoid production delays.
Based on current demand, open orders, and supplier lead times, you should order:
No more implementation.
Just onboarding.
Sutton's onboarding agent reformats your data, configures your system, and gets you live. A real human is always a call away. And if something is missing, describe it in plain English and it exists inside the product in minutes.
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How can I help you today?
AI agents reformat your data, map your fields, make bulk edits, and configure the system. What used to take weeks of manual work happens automatically. You review and confirm.
What would you recommend for purchase approvals?
For your operation, I’d add a manager review step only for high-value orders. It keeps things moving without losing control.
Sounds good. How soon can we test it?
I can have the updated workflow ready tomorrow, then we’ll test it with your team and move toward launch.
Map your locations, workflows, and rules. Sutton is configured around how your operation actually runs — no rigid templates.
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FEFO (short for First Expired, First Out) is a method of inventory stock rotation which prioritizes picking and shipping finished products or using material in production that have the earliest expiration dates, regardless of when they were received into inventory.
Even though frozen food products tend to have a longer shelf life due to the process of how goods are manufactured and stored, FEFO is still important for them to use, as the shelf life is ultimately finite, and retailers require products to arrive with a minimum percentage of their total shelf life remaining.
ERP for frozen food companies allows companies to manage their inventory using the FEFO method by scanning the batch lot number, manufacturing date, and expiration date when raw materials arrive. With this information saved, frozen food ERP will be able to tell you at what location these raw materials are stored and which batches are close to approaching their expiry date.
Frozen food ERP like Sutton helps you manage your expiry dates and shelf life with serialized inventory that comes with custom fields so you can track the exact information you need to avoid inventory spoiling.
When you use Sutton, you can open the software and start creating products. To enable full end-to-end traceability for your items, you will need to set up serialized quantity tracking. What this does is assign unique IDs to your inventory and batches, giving you a traceable record of your serialized goods.
As for the custom fields we mentioned, you can track any information you want with them.
But, for a frozen food item, you may want to add custom fields for monitoring:
- Best-before date
- Batch date
- Any other date-based data point your operation requires
You can also easily set reorder points with Sutton — so when inventory levels are falling to a point where production or sales might become disrupted, Sutton will send you a notification.
Lot traceability is the ability to track batches of finished goods or raw materials throughout your entire supply chain.
How this works in ERP for frozen food companies is that when a batch is received or created, a lot number is assigned to that batch. This number is how you’ll be able to identify products from a batch as it moves through the different stages of your operations (and beyond). Lot traceability gives you a complete history of your items, telling you:
- The origins of your materials
- How they were processed
- Where they ended up
For example, take Sutton.
In Sutton, lot numbers are assigned directly to manufacturing orders. When a manufacturing order is created, you have the opportunity to add the lot number, and it automatically carries through to every work order and output label generated from that production run. When a production run is finished, and your finished goods inventory increases, a label is generated and can be printed and placed on that batch, tying the physical goods to the serialized inventory record in the system. For frozen food manufacturers, this level of traceability is essential for quality control, compliance, and the ability to isolate and respond to affected batches quickly if a recall or quality issue arises.
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