The Complete ERP Platform for Food & Dairy Processing

Milk, ghee, paneer, snacks, pickles, retail packs — food is made to a recipe, sold against a date, and moved before it turns. Trade Node runs intake, production, packing, dispatch and export consignments on one platform, so what the floor makes and what the ledger says stop being two different stories.

• Recipe-driven production runs
• Expiry-aware stock alerts
• Dispatch and export on record

The problems this trade lives with

• Stock ages while everyone watches: Finished packs sit in the cold room with a date running down. Nobody sees the problem until a distributor refuses the load or the stock is written off at stock-take.
• Yield disappears between intake and pack: Milk to ghee, wet to dry, filled to sealed — the loss at every stage is worked out at month end on a spreadsheet, long after anything could have been done about it.
• Records live in three different places: Intake registers on the dock, production sheets on the floor, dispatch slips at the gate. When a buyer or an auditor asks one question, someone spends the day matching paper.
• Orders arrive faster than the paperwork: Distributors book on phone and WhatsApp at rates nobody can find later, and the chilled vehicle leaves before anyone checks how much that party already owes.

How Trade Node runs it

• Recipes define what a run should consume: Bills of material set the standard for every batch, so what the floor drew against what it produced is on record run by run instead of being reconstructed at month end.
• Waste weighed honestly, run by run: Scrap, spillage and rework are recorded per production run, so a yield problem shows up as a line on a report while the next run can still be corrected.
• Stock that knows its date: Products carry their expiry, and staff are alerted while the stock is still sellable — early enough to push it, discount it, or stop making more of it.
• Dispatch with the whole trail attached: Vehicle, transporter, e-way bill and delivery confirmation sit on the dispatch record, so every load is followed from the dock to the buyer's signature.
• Exports on the same system as the local route: Export consignments carry customs milestones, foreign-currency values and their trade document references alongside domestic dispatches — one operation, not a separate file.

Why one platform

• For businesses that make, not just resell: Distribution software stops at stock in and stock out. Trade Node covers the recipe, the run, the waste and the machine that made it — and then bills what left the dock.
• One platform from intake to collection: Supplier bills, production, packing, dispatch, invoice and payment are one connected flow, so nothing is retyped and no two registers quietly disagree.
• Distributors stay on one channel: Live rates, ordering, order status and ledger in a phone portal — orders arrive as orders, not as messages somebody has to interpret at 10pm.

Modules for this trade

• Factory: Recipes for every SKU, work orders that move through mixing, filling and packing stations, and a waste ledger that shows the real yield of each run.
• Catalog: Product records carry pack size, rate and expiry date, so ageing stock raises an alert while there is still time to sell it.
• Trade: Distributors order retail packs against your published rates from their phone, with every order carrying the rate it was booked at.
• Operations: Warehouse-wise stock, dispatch challans with vehicle, transporter and e-way bill, through to delivery confirmation.
• Operations: Export consignments with customs milestones, forex values and trade document references, run beside your domestic dispatches.
• Finance: GST invoices raised from what actually dispatched, live outstanding per distributor, and credit limits checked before the vehicle is loaded.

Frequently asked questions

Does Trade Node handle production, or only trading?

Both. Bills of material, stage-wise work orders, a waste ledger and a machine register cover the floor, and the same platform then handles stock, dispatch, billing and collections.

How does Trade Node help with shelf life?

Products carry an expiry date and staff are alerted as stock in the godown approaches or passes it, so slow-moving stock surfaces early instead of at the buyer's gate.

Can we run export and domestic sales on the same system?

Yes. Export consignments with customs milestones, foreign-currency values and document references sit alongside domestic dispatches, so one team runs both.

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