Twelve customers, fifty SKUs, one production line.
That is a normal week for a co-packer, and it is where generic ERPs start to fall apart. ShiftERP keeps the schedule, inventory, quality, and retailer EDI in one system the floor will actually use. Most plants are on the mobile app in the first week and running production in the system by week five.
Schedule starts at $199/mo per plant. Full platform in 4-6 weeks. Typical plants save 1-3 admin FTEs.
RUNS THIS WEEK
47
ON-TIME
96%
CHANGEOVERS
12
Built for co-packers, not for a single-brand factory.
You pack other companies' products on shared lines. The software has to understand customer-specific bills, allergen changeovers, and retailer paperwork as ordinary work, not as a customization project.
Shared lines, many customers
A co-packer week is a mix of customers, SKUs, and changeovers on the same equipment. ShiftERP schedules that mix without a second spreadsheet.
The floor is the office
Counts, moves, and checks happen on the line. The mobile app works there, so the board stays current without someone walking back to a desk.
Turn it on in pieces
Start with the schedule. Add inventory, quality, and retailer EDI when the team is ready. You keep the same data and the same login.
Written from failed rollouts
We spent years putting generic ERPs into co-packing plants. The workarounds were always the same, so we built the system those plants actually needed.
Start in week one. Be in production by week five.
We do not dump a full ERP on the plant on a Friday. The floor gets the app first, the week moves onto the board, and retailer documents come last, against data people already trust.
01 · Week 1
Get the floor on it
Mobile app in week one
Warehouse staff get the app on day one. Order entry and inventory counts work without a training class. People use it because it is faster than the clipboard.
02 · Weeks 2-4
Put the week on the board
Scheduling and quality
The production board comes up next, with quality checks attached to the runs already on it. The spreadsheet version of the week starts to go quiet.
03 · Week 5+
Close the loop
EDI and reporting
Retailer documents and the rest of the reporting turn on against the same orders and lots. We stay on the implementation until the plant is actually running on it.
Traditional ERP math does not work on a co-packing margin.
More than 15,000+ co-packers still run a $200B market on spreadsheets because the alternative was an 18-month project. You do not have to take that trade.
Calculate your ROI“Three plants, frozen and allergen-free lines, and none of our own brands. Our whole business is other people’s products. ShiftERP is the first system that understood that.”
A food co-packer in the Mountain West
How they run several plants on ShiftERP, including allergen-sensitive lines and retailer EDI, without owning a consumer brand of their own.
Read the case studyWhat this looks like from operations, finance, and IT.
The product is the same. The questions are not. These pages are written for the person who has to live with the decision.
Operations
Know what is on each line during the shift, not at the end of it. The board the planners set is the board the floor sees.
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Finance / CFO
A monthly number you can budget, implementation in the subscription, and payback measured in months instead of the next fiscal year.
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IT
Hosted in our cloud, with a REST API and retailer EDI already in the product. Your list of homework stays short.
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See your plant in ShiftERP.
Bring a week of your production schedule. We will put it on the board so you can see what the week looks like without the spreadsheets.