In the fast-moving food and beverage (F&B) industry, growing production volume while meeting strict government compliance requirements is a real operational challenge. As operations scale, manual processes become the bottleneck that puts both quality and profitability at risk.
Solufy recently partnered with Euro India Foods Private Limited, a leading, publicly listed F&B manufacturer based in Surat, Gujarat, to digitally transform its operations using ERPNext for food and beverage manufacturing — replacing manual paperwork with a fully automated, compliance-driven production system.
About the Client: Euro India Foods
Euro India Foods is a significant name in the Indian snacks and beverages market, known for the brand promise “Every Bite. A Vibe.” The company produces a wide range of products — classic wafers, juices, cold drinks, packaged drinking water, and traditional namkeens.
Euro India Foods operates at serious scale: it’s a publicly listed company and a trusted job worker (contract manufacturer) for Reliance’s Campa brand. That scale, though, comes with real operational friction across its many product lines.
The Challenge: Growing Pains and Manual Bottlenecks
Even while following strict standards — FSSAI, GMP, and ISO 22000 — Euro India Foods still relied heavily on manual, paper-based methods to manage the production floor. The core problems:
- Traceability gaps — no system-driven mechanism for tracking raw material and finished product batches
- Compliance overload — quality records, hygiene reports, and line clearance logs all maintained on paper to meet FSSAI regulations
- Procurement delays — raw material planning disconnected from real-time inventory levels
- Slow vendor onboarding — supplier registration and approval handled manually through email and paper
Euro India Foods needed an implementation partner who genuinely understood F&B-specific compliance and production nuances — which is where Solufy came in, designing a custom ERPNext implementation built specifically around these gaps.
The Solufy Solution: A Tailored ERPNext Ecosystem
Solufy mapped Euro India Foods’ exact factory-floor needs and adapted the standard ERPNext framework to create a connected, automated process — from procurement through dispatch.
1. Smart Purchasing and Vendor Management
Automated raw material planning: A dynamic planning system automatically calculates procurement quantities based on current raw material inventory and pending work orders — closing the gap between planning and real-time stock levels.
Self-service vendor portal: Solufy built a custom web portal that removed manual supplier onboarding entirely. Vendors receive a URL, submit their details and compliance documents directly, and wait for internal approval – only approved registrations flow automatically into the Supplier Master in ERPNext.
2. Custom Manufacturing Workflows: Solving the “Multi-SKU” Problem
In F&B manufacturing, a single batch (say, 5,000 litres of mango juice) is usually packed into multiple SKUs — 200ml, 500ml, and 1L bottles. Standard ERP systems typically require a separate work order per size, creating unnecessary complexity.
Solufy adapted the ERPNext manufacturing workflow to manage multiple packaging SKUs under a single work order:
- A custom single-screen interface lets floor managers record production and specify multiple outputs simultaneously
- Batch numbers are auto-generated by the system and strictly enforced on a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) basis
3. FSSAI-Compliant Quality Automation
F&B compliance requires continuous sampling — paper logs are vulnerable to errors and backdating. Solufy digitized the entire Quality Assurance (QA) process:
Time-triggered quality inspections: ERPNext was configured to automatically create live quality inspection tasks at set intervals — every hour, every two hours, or every four hours — while a production work order is active.
Digital reporting, fully automated, covering:
- Raw material testing reports
- Live online production testing reports
- Finished product QA reports
- Line clearance & control sample records
- Personal hygiene reports
- Next-day leak test reports
The Impact
Through this partnership, Euro India Foods has eliminated the paperwork that previously slowed down its quality team. FSSAI compliance is now a byproduct of daily automated workflows, not a separate administrative burden. The custom multi-output manufacturing screen has significantly cut the time floor operators spend on data entry — letting them focus on production quality instead of paperwork.
Is your manufacturing business held back by manual processes and paper-based compliance? Solufy delivers customized ERPNext implementations for companies in the manufacturing and chemical industries. Get in touch to find out how we can automate your factory floor.