Make what your customers will order and waste less of what you make.
Food and drink producers deal with short shelf lives, volatile retailer orders and constant retailer pressure. Xgorithm builds forecasts and production plans that follow real demand, and automates the paperwork that slows the office down.
What we hear from food & drink teams
Retailer orders swing week to week
Promotions and weather move demand, and the weekly plan is rebuilt in Excel every time.
Short shelf life means real waste
Over-producing by a few percent turns straight into product you cannot sell.
Paperwork arrives with every delivery
Retailer orders, delivery notes and invoices are typed into the system by hand.
Traceability records live on paper
Food-safety and batch records are slow to search when an auditor or retailer asks.
What Xgorithm would build for you
These are example scenarios based on problems we hear about often. They show what we would build and what we would measure, not results from a named client.
Example scenario
Forecast-to-plan for a food processor
- The challenge
- Short shelf life and volatile retailer orders lead to high waste and last-minute production changes.
- What we build
- A demand forecast by product and customer that feeds a production and stock plan, with an assistant that answers planners' what-if questions.
- What we measure
- Waste, forecast accuracy and on-time-in-full
Example scenario
Retailer order and invoice automation
- The challenge
- Orders from several retailers arrive in different formats and are keyed in each morning.
- What we build
- An agent that reads each retailer's orders and invoices, enters them into your system and flags anything that does not match.
- What we measure
- Orders entered without typing and invoice errors
Example scenario
Searchable traceability records
- The challenge
- Batch and food-safety records are on paper, so answering an auditor's question takes hours.
- What we build
- Digitised records with a search assistant that answers "which batches used this ingredient?" with the source records attached.
- What we measure
- Time to answer a traceability request
Security and regulation
Food production is listed as a critical sector under NIS2. Xgorithm builds with access controls, audit logs and EU hosting from the start, and documents each system so you can show retailers and auditors how it works.
How Xgorithm handles your dataQuestions people ask us
How much sales history do we need for a forecast?
One to two years of order history by product and customer is usually enough to start. We check your data in the first call.
Can the forecast handle promotions?
Yes. Promotions, holidays and other known events are inputs to the forecast, and planners can test them before committing.
Where do most producers start?
Usually with the forecast and production plan for one product line, because it shows its effect on waste within a short pilot.
Talk to Xgorithm about the work slowing your food & drink team down.
Book a 30-minute call with a senior specialist. We'll find the one process worth fixing first and follow up with a written plan, costs and a fixed-price pilot proposal.
There's no obligation, and we reply to every enquiry within one working day.