When your ERP was never built for process manufacturing, every batch becomes a risk you manage by hand. Folio3 implements Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management as a process manufacturing ERP built for the work, so every batch is made to spec, traceable from ingredient lot to shipment, and ready for any audit.
Most process manufacturers run on spreadsheets, an entry-level accounting tool, or a generic ERP built for assembly, none of which were made for formulas, variable yield, and a regulator who can ask for a full trace tomorrow morning. The pressure is not only internal either: regulation keeps tightening, one recall can damage the brand, and volatile ingredient costs squeeze the margin on every batch.
Lot genealogy lives in spreadsheets and people's heads. When a supplier flags a contaminated ingredient, you cannot answer "which finished batches, shipped to whom" fast enough to satisfy an auditor or protect customers.
Active ingredient strength varies lot to lot, and real output rarely matches the theoretical formula. A system that treats quantities as fixed forces your team to re-plan by hand on every run.
Holds, expiry dates, and certificates of analysis sit in email, PDFs, and a QA binder. Nothing stops expired or unreleased stock from being picked, and proving compliance means reassembling the story after the fact.
When one run produces a main product, a saleable co-product, and a by-product, the cost has to be split across all three. Without that allocation, margin by product line is an estimate you cannot defend.
Quality and traceability are only as strong as the weakest unconfigured step. Folio3 connects the full path, so the lot trail and compliance records hold from the receiving dock through fulfillment.
These are the capabilities that separate batch and formula production from assembly. Folio3 implements them on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management and configures each one around the way your plant runs.
Define products by formula rather than a fixed bill of materials, with ingredient versions, allergens, and substitutions.
Plan and execute by batch, scaling a recipe up or down to vessel size while quantities stay proportional.
Capture every output of a run and allocate cost across the main product, co-products, and by-products.
Track every lot forward to the customer and backward to the supplier. See the full lot traceability chain in one view.
Build quality plans, record test results, and issue or store certificates of analysis tied to the lot.
Drive picking by First Expired, First Out, and block expired or held stock from reaching a shipment.
Buy, make, and sell in different units, including variable catch weight, with conversions that reconcile.
Adjust formulas to the measured strength of incoming material, so finished product hits specification.
Support the records and reporting your vertical requires, from FDA and FSMA to cGMP, HACCP, and allergen control.
Most Microsoft Dynamics 365 partners stop at finance and accounting. We implement process manufacturing ERP solutions that go further, into the parts that decide whether a batch ships clean: formulation, quality, and compliance.
Process manufacturing covers everything from food and beverage to chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Folio3 configures Business Central to the formulas, batches, and compliance requirements your vertical actually runs on.
ERP for food manufacturers, beverage producers, and co‑packers managing recipes, shelf life, allergens, and retail‑driven compliance requirements.
The benefits you can expect
Recipes stored, versioned, and scaled in the system. The floor always works from the approved formula.
Allergens tracked at the ingredient level through to finished goods.
Every lot traced from supplier intake to finished case in both directions.
Critical control points built directly into production workflows.
ERP for specialty chemical, coatings, adhesives, and cleaning product manufacturers handling variable potency, co‑products, and hazardous material requirements.
The benefits you can expect
Variable potency, approved substitutes, and batch scaling managed in one place.
Batch costs allocated across primary outputs, co‑products, and by‑products.
Materials classified with hazard codes and handling instructions.
CoAs issued directly from quality test results recorded in the system.
ERP for pharmaceutical manufacturers, contract drug manufacturers, and medical device producers operating under FDA, cGMP, and validated production requirements.
The benefits you can expect
Every production step captured in an electronic batch record.
First‑expiry‑first‑out consumption enforced automatically.
Ingredient quantities adjusted from actual potency results at goods receipt.
Lot genealogy, deviation records, and quality hold and release workflows built into production.
ERP for supplement manufacturers, contract packagers, and private label producers managing potency, cGMP records, and lot traceability from raw material to finished bottle.
The benefits you can expect
Incoming raw materials tested for potency and formula quantities adjusted accordingly.
Every ingredient lot tracked through blending, filling, and packaging.
In‑process quality checks logged, non‑conforming materials placed on hold.
Finished product specs, ingredient lists, and label claims managed in one place.
ERP for cultivators, extractors, processors, and packaged goods producers operating under seed‑to‑sale traceability mandates and rapidly changing compliance requirements.
The benefits you can expect
Lot numbers assigned at cultivation or intake and carried through extraction, formulation, and packaging.
Third‑party lab results recorded against each lot.
Compliance reports and transfer manifests generated directly from data.
Workflows easily reconfigured as requirements adapt.
in custom-build and license cost avoided
A rapid, out-of-the-box deployment came in under $50,000, avoided a six-figure custom build, and let the team scale transaction volume without adding finance staff.
A U.S. food manufacturer
in annual finance salary cost avoided as volume grew
for a structured monthly close that was not possible before
Standardizing the chart of accounts and automating intercompany transactions handed the finance team a faster reporting cycle, with multi-entity consolidation that used to take weeks now finishing in about 90 minutes.
A U.S. multi-entity food producer
to consolidate multiple entities, down from weeks
Gold Microsoft Dynamics partner with manufacturing customers across discrete, process, food, and industrial sectors.
Talk to our process manufacturing ERP experts and see how Microsoft Dynamics 365 turns formulas, quality, and compliance into one provable system.
A process manufacturing ERP is enterprise software for businesses that make products from formulas and recipes in batches, rather than by assembling countable units from a bill of materials.
Yes. Process manufacturing is core native functionality in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, covering formulas, co-products, catch weight, potency, and batch attributes without needing third-party add-ons.
Every lot is tracked forward to the customers it shipped to and backward to the supplier lots it came from, enabling recall tracking in minutes instead of days.
The batch cost is allocated across all of them using rules you define, rather than landing entirely on the primary output, providing accurate margin insight.
