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Food & Beverage
The food and beverage (F&B) industry operates within one of the most complex and highly regulated environments, where success depends on balancing efficiency, compliance, and adaptability. Companies must navigate challenges such as strict food safety and labeling regulations, managing perishable supply chains, adapting to seasonal fluctuations in demand, and maintaining full traceability from raw materials to finished goods.
Advanced technologies like ERP and digital supply chain management play a vital role in enabling end-to-end visibility, recipe and batch management, expiration tracking, and quality assurance, ensuring that production runs smoothly while meeting regulatory standards. 
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Additionally, electronic data interchange (EDI) has become essential for seamless collaboration with suppliers, distributors, and retailers, helping organizations manage transactions in real time and comply with global standards.
By integrating lean manufacturing practices, automation, and advanced analytics, food and beverage companies are not only reducing waste and controlling costs but also building resilience to respond quickly to recalls, audits, or sudden market changes. In a fast-evolving landscape, F&B manufacturers that embrace digital transformation and supply chain innovation are best positioned to remain competitive, safeguard consumer trust, and drive sustainable growth.
Food & Beverage Industry Challenges and How GETR Assists
In the fast-paced food & beverage sector, companies must balance strict compliance and perishable supply chains with the need for efficiency and agility. Below is a snapshot of the industry’s unique challenges and how GETR helps overcome them.
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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Compliance requires strict batch traceability. Many companies struggle with incomplete or disconnected batch processes in SAP.

How GETR Assists
Configure SAP batch management with integrated quality processes. Enable full traceability across procurement, production, and sales.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Inaccurate tracking leads to write-offs, compliance risks, or lost sales.

How GETR Assists
Implement shelf-life expiration date (SLED) control and FEFO picking in WM/EWM to minimize waste and ensure compliance.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Flexible recipes, substitutions, and potency variations are hard to manage in SAP PP-PI.

How GETR Assists
Optimize BOMs, recipes, and production versions for scalable manufacturing. Enable real-time formula adjustments.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Nutrition, allergens, and origin labeling often exceed SAP’s out-of-the-box capabilities.

How GETR Assists
Build SAP-integrated custom labels with nutritional and allergen data. Automate printing via WM/EWM and 3rd-party tools (NiceLabel, Bartender).

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Spoilage, evaporation, and inefficiencies drive hidden costs.

How GETR Assists
Configure variance reporting in SAP PP/CO. Build dashboards to track yield losses and cost recovery.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Inline inspections and COAs are not automated. Vendor quality is hard to monitor.

How GETR Assists
Implement SAP QM with batch-linked inspections. Automate Certificates of Analysis and supplier scorecards.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Temperature-sensitive logistics and FEFO/FIFO picking are poorly supported in many plants.

How GETR Assists
Configure EWM for temperature zones and FEFO. Integrate barcode/RFID scanning for real-time cold chain monitoring.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Chargebacks due to failed ASNs, incorrect labels, or delayed EDI.

How GETR Assists
GETR’s EDI Monitoring-as-a-Service prevents errors. Expertise across 850, 856, 810, 940, 945, etc. ensures compliance with major retailers/distributors.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Seasonal spikes and promotions cause frequent stockouts or overstocks.

How GETR Assists
Enhance MRP and integrate promotion planning. Provide on-demand fractional consultants for seasonal scaling.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Lack of real-time dashboards limits decision-making at both plant and executive level.

How GETR Assists
Deliver SAP BW/4HANA, Datasphere, or Power BI dashboards for inventory aging, yields, and compliance insights.

Unique Requirements and Challenges

Multiple ordering channels resulting in time-consuming processes, potential errors and lack of uniform process.

How GETR Assists
Digital self-service portal using SAP Commerce Cloud which ceates an omnichannel (one-stop shop) experience for all the clients (retailers, wholesalers, supermarkets, and distributors) by providing a real-time insights into orders, invoices, and delivery information to them.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Too much working capital stuck in inventory

How GETR Assists
Inprovement in inventory turns, reduced inventory, increased operational efficiency & service levels using SAP DDMRP and EWM.

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Unique Requirements and Challenges

Consumers expect the brands/producers to use eco-friendly practices, which typically include sustainable packaging, reduce the food waste, sourcing ingredients responsibly. Additionally, there are requirements to keep the carbon footprint lower and adhering to ESG compliance.

How GETR Assists
SAP Sustainability Control Tower helps F&B companies meet eco-friendly goals by tracking carbon footprint, monitoring sustainable packaging, ensuring responsible sourcing, reducing food waste, and simplifying ESG compliance reporting.

Why F & B choose GETR to support their SAP initiative:
20+ years SAP experience across manufacturing and supply chain.
Fractional FTE AMS model — scalable, cost-effective, and on-demand.
Deep EDI and compliance expertise, proven in automotive and adapted for F&B.

Global delivery centers (U.S., Mexico, India) with 24×7 coverage.

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