Food Processing: Traceability Shouldn't Be an Afterthought

From raw olives to bottled oil — knowing exactly what went into every batch, and where it went.

Food transformation businesses — a small olive oil press, a jam maker, a canning workshop — carry a responsibility most other sectors don't: if something goes wrong with a batch, you need to know exactly which raw materials and which customers were involved, fast.

Common gaps

• Raw material batches aren't linked to the finished products they became
• Retailers and wholesalers are invoiced from the same messy spreadsheet as small individual orders
• No structured link between what was purchased and what a production run actually used
• Packaging and container stock runs out mid-production, unnoticed until it happens

What Odoo brings

Technova's Agroalimentaire package uses Manufacturing bills of materials to link raw materials — olives, sugar, jars — to finished products like bottled olive oil, with full stock movement history. Combined with Sales and Purchase, you get one place to see supplier deliveries, production consumption, and retailer invoices, instead of three disconnected systems.