Packaged snack producers faced an unprecedented surge of demand as the pandemic and corresponding stay-at-home orders pushed consumers to comfort foods including packaged snacks. Convenient on-the-go packaging was replaced with bulk purchases that are now trending back as consumers emerge from stay at home orders. Consistent trends include the drive for more flavor, healthy choices, and protein. “Self-indulgence” grabs the premium space in the market but value is a strong driver in consumer behavior.
These trends and the corresponding dramatic shift in demand mean that your organization must be flexible and agile to deliver innovative products timed to market needs, all while managing costs and risk.
The Adroit team helps organizations to improve their agility. Our team works to understand your specific operational challenges, jointly craft solutions that incorporate best practices, leverage your existing software assets, and where necessary implement Adroit’s software solutions.
Working with Adroit, you are better positioned to efficiently create and produce products in response to newer trends.
The packaged-snacks category is highly fragmented—ready-to-eat products across frozen, fresh and shelf-stable formats with very high SKU counts and many packaging configurations. Consumers demand convenience, portability and portion control, which drives more SKUs and complex formulations that require multiple processing steps and ingredient combinations.
Operationally this means a single bulk formulation batch often feeds multiple high-speed packaging lines and different inner/outer pack combinations, so packaging BOMs can be multi-level and inventory must track formulation quantities across every finished-pack variant.
That complexity makes a capable ERP essential: it must support batch production feeding configurable packaging lines, multi-level BOMs, accurate on-hand formulation visibility across packs, and real-time inventory and planning so you can schedule, cost and deliver varied SKUs efficiently.
As with all food production processes, traceability, formulas and recipes, lot control and traceability are key components of an enabling ERP system.
Adroit has the food processing industry experience to make sense of it all. We can help you solve your production and inventory control challenges with the application of best practices, optimizing your existing systems, or through the implementation of an Adroit software solution.
Adroit helps packaged-snack manufacturers tame recipe complexity and scheduling chaos by aligning ERP, supply-chain planning and shop-floor systems so you can scale faster, cut costs and stay audit-ready.
SOP planning: unified sales-ops-finance forecasts, capacity, pipeline inventory and expiry tracking.
Formulations: move recipes from spreadsheets into controlled, versioned formulation/ERP.
Production insight: visibility into yields, batch-to-batch trends, bottlenecks and downtime.
Traceability & QA: automated lot traceability, LIMS/linkages and auditable records.
Fit & delivery: assess ERP/SCM fit for mixed batch + continuous lines and implement or optimize Adroit’s solutions.
We migrate spreadsheets, tighten planning and operations, and deliver repeatable, compliant production that gets new SKUs to market reliably.