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Food & Beverage Warehouse Management Software

Ship the wrong lot and you get a chargeback. Ship an expired product and you get a recall. Food and beverage warehouses carry risks that a generic WMS was never designed to manage.

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What Makes It Different

Expiry Dates Change Everything

In most warehouses, stock is stock. In food and beverage, two pallets of the same SKU are not interchangeable — one expires in six weeks and one in six days, and picking the wrong one is a write-off or a recall.

FEFO And FIFO Enforcement

The picker is directed to the correct lot automatically, soonest-expiring first or oldest first, set per SKU rather than left to judgement.

Lot Traceability

Chain of custody captured at every transaction — receiving, putaway, pick, pack and ship.

Expiry Alerts

Stock nearing its date flagged while there is still time to sell it, rather than discovered at a count.

Allergen Segregation

Storage and picking rules that keep allergen-containing lines apart and prevent cross-contact during assembly.

Temperature Zones

Ambient, chilled and frozen handled as separate zones with their own putaway and picking rules.

Recall Response

Identify every affected lot and where it went in minutes, with the movement history to hand to an auditor.

Traceability

A Recall Should Be A Query, Not A Fortnight

When a supplier notifies you of a problem, the question is simple and the answer usually is not: which lots did we receive, where are they now, and who did we send them to? A food WMS answers that from the transaction record rather than from a paper trail.

One-up, one-down traceability from supplier to customer

Affected lots identified and blocked from picking immediately

Movement history exportable for auditors and regulators

Mock recalls run against real data rather than a spreadsheet

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Warehouse worker using a tablet to check inventory and stock levels

Warehouse worker using a tablet to manage inventory in a warehouse

Waste

Rotation That Actually Happens

Every operation intends to rotate stock properly. What decides whether it happens is whether the system directs the pick or leaves it to whoever is on shift. Enforcing FEFO at the pick face is the difference between intention and practice.

Rotation enforced at the point of picking, not audited afterwards

Short-dated stock surfaced for clearance while it still has value

Expired product physically prevented from being picked

Waste reported by SKU so the pattern is visible

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FAQ

Common Questions

What is the difference between FIFO and FEFO?

FIFO picks the oldest stock first, by receipt date. FEFO picks the soonest to expire first, which is not always the same thing — a later delivery can carry an earlier expiry date. Food operations generally need FEFO, and Canary7 enforces it at the pick rather than reporting on it afterwards.

How quickly can you produce a recall report?

The data is captured at every movement, so identifying affected lots and their destinations is a query rather than a reconstruction. Affected stock can be blocked from picking at the same time.

Do you handle allergen segregation?

Yes. Putaway and picking rules keep allergen-containing lines separated, and picking sequences can be set to prevent cross-contact during order assembly.

Can you manage chilled, frozen and ambient in one system?

Yes, as separate zones with their own rules. Stock is directed to the correct environment on putaway and picked accordingly.

Will it help with FSMA, HACCP or BRC audits?

It gives you the record those audits ask for — lot-level chain of custody, rotation enforcement and hold history. We are not a compliance consultancy, but the evidence is there rather than needing assembling.

Does it work with our ERP?

Yes. Two-way connectors for Acumatica, SAP Business One and GenetiQ, plus an open API and EDI.

We'll Come And Walk Your Floor

Some operations make more sense in person than on a call. We carry out on-site evaluations across Ireland, the UK and North America — walking your process with you, seeing where the time goes, and telling you what we'd actually change.

Tell us about your operation and we'll let you know whether a visit makes sense.

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