Lot and date control, FEFO picking, catch weight, and customer pricing on one system, from the receiving dock to the delivery route.
A food distributor buys by the pallet, sells by the case or the each, and watches every lot count down to its best-by date. Pricing changes by customer, by contract, and by the week’s deals, some items ship by weight, and when a supplier issues a recall you need to know within hours which lots went to which customers. Generic distribution software treats a case of yogurt like a case of screws. NetSuite, configured by Consule for lot, date, and weight, knows the difference and keeps the warehouse, the sales desk, and accounting on the same numbers.
Weight that invoices correctly. ProShop’s CatchIQ records actual weight alongside the case count on receipts, picks, and invoices, so a case of brisket is one case on the shelf and 61.8 pounds on the bill, and margin reflects what actually shipped.
Dates that drive the pick. Lot numbers and expiration dates are captured at receipt, pick rules pull first-expired stock first, and lots past their sell-by window are held before anyone loads them.
Repacking without losing the trail. Repack Orders splits bulk lots into retail or private-label packs and keeps the parent lot on every child, so traceability survives the repack room.
Traceability on demand. One-up, one-down lot history from supplier receipt to customer shipment supports the traceability records food safety rules and your customers expect, and lets a recall be scoped by lot instead of by guess.
Everything else NetSuite already does. Multi-warehouse inventory, demand planning, EDI with grocery and foodservice customers, broker commissions, deductions, and financials that close on time.
FEFO picking and short-date alerts move older lots first, so write-offs shrink and credits for expired product stop piling up.
Catch-weight items are invoiced on actual pounds and every deal is applied at order entry, so fewer invoices come back disputed.
Lot history from receipt to delivery shows exactly which customers received the affected product, so the notice reaches the right accounts.
Inventory by location and date, sales by customer and item, and margin after deals and freight, all from the same record.
Built for food distributors, by a partner who builds for food
Consule builds native NetSuite products for food companies, including CatchIQ for catch weight and Repack Orders for lot-traced repacking. If you distribute food or beverages and are running on an aging distribution system, spreadsheets, or a NetSuite account that was never set up for lots and dates, we will walk through your own receiving, picking, and invoicing with you.
Consule delivers this as a NetSuite implementation, a NetSuite optimization of a system you already run, or an integration project, with ongoing support under the CARE program.
These are the pages food and beverage distributors usually read next.
Yes. With lot numbers and expiration dates on items, NetSuite warehouse management can direct pickers to the earliest-expiring lot. Consule configures the rules for short-dated stock and holds, including customer-specific shelf-life minimums where you need them.
Not in the base product. Consule’s CatchIQ module adds actual weight alongside unit count on receipts, fulfillments, and invoices, so items stocked by the case can be priced, costed, and billed by the pound.
Lot control captures supplier lot, dates, and quantities on every receipt, transfer, and shipment. That history supports one-up, one-down traceability and lot genealogy reports that can be produced on demand for audits, customers, and recalls.
Yes. Price levels, customer-specific pricing, and promotions apply on the order, and deductions taken on remittances can be tracked against the deals behind them. Consule sets these up around how your sales team quotes and how your customers pay.
