Consumer focus on health, natural/organic products, and sustainability keeps seafood demand growing—fueled by innovation from plant-based alternatives and new breadings to global flavors and grab-and-go convenience. To win, producers need the agility to time innovations to market while managing cost and risk.
Adroit helps seafood companies translate shifting preferences into operational results. We dig into your specific challenges, apply best practices, leverage your existing systems, and—where it adds value—implement Adroit software so you can efficiently develop, produce, and launch products in step with market trends.
As an example of understanding how process improvements can drive performance, let us review the operational challenges faced by Fish and Seafood processors.
Fish and seafood processing is a complex category, marked by many supply chain activities and processes necessary to quickly and safely produce food products from the time the fish and seafood are harvested until shipped for distribution and consumption.
Fish processing software can play a role in improving every step of supply chain activity.
Seafood (fish, shellfish, seaweed) is highly perishable and temperature-sensitive, requiring tight control from harvest to pack. Preservation may start offshore (keeping catch alive or chilled) and continues with chilling/freezing, salting, smoking, freeze-drying, irradiation, or vacuum packing. At the plant, each container is received with lot/serial/SKU and catch weight (variable weight per tub); lot records capture catch date, vessel, and other details—capabilities many generic ERPs lack. Production orders then manage fractionating steps that yield co-products and by-products (e.g., whole fish, fillets, sticks, oil, meal), demanding catch-weight accounting, lot/batch traceability, and cold-chain oversight. Adroit applies best practices and implements catch-weight/traceability-ready ERP/MES to tighten production and inventory control end to end.
At Adroit we start by learning how your fish and seafood operation actually runs so we can replace fragmented, spreadsheet-driven practices with a single, auditable system that supports strategy and growth. We know processors face an unusual forecasting challenge because production is often supply-limited rather than demand-led, and that challenge cascades into sales, operations and finance planning where poor forecasts, unclear production capacity, and weak inventory visibility create cost and service gaps. Your industry also has specific software and data needs — catch weight variability, container serialization, and management of co-products and by-products — and those drivers must be modeled in formulation, recipe and yield calculations. Food-safety and certification requirements (GFSI, HACCP) need to be integrated and enforced in software so checks like temperature logs and foreign-object controls are recorded and auditable. We help migrate recipe and formulation spreadsheets into a controlled system, bring real-time visibility to yields and unit costs, link traceability throughout the distribution pipeline, and connect or implement laboratory information management (LIMS) and by-product/waste workflows to support sustainability. By aligning fishing-industry software and core business systems with your operational strategy, Adroit gives you repeatable processes for training and multi-site consistency, clearer insight into loss and yield, and stronger control over production, inventory and compliance.