Food and Beverage
Every Batch, Every Cost, One Clear View
Allston Yale builds food and beverage analytics for mid-market producers, processors, and distributors in Texas and across the USA. We help lean IT and operations teams turn production, inventory, and sales data into one clear view they can act on.
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The Data Is Everywhere and the Margin Is Thin
Food and beverage runs on thin margins and a lot of moving data. Production sits in one system, inventory and cost in another, and sales into retail somewhere else, so waste, shrink, and rising ingredient costs often show up only after they have eaten the quarter. We close that gap.
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What Food and Beverage Analytics Covers
Data analytics in the food and beverage industry runs from the batch to the invoice. It tracks yield and throughput on the line, ingredient and packaging cost, inventory and shelf-life across raw and finished goods, waste and shrink, and sales by product, channel, and customer.
Most producers start with one painful number. Often that is a true cost of goods nobody can pin down, or waste that only becomes visible at month-end, and we build out from a figure your plant and finance teams both live by.
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Built for Lean Food and Beverage IT Teams
A mid-market producer rarely has a data team; it has plant supervisors, a quality lead, and a stretched back office. We build reporting a small IT team can maintain, so margin and production visibility does not hinge on a spreadsheet only one person understands.
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From the Plant Floor to the Retail Shelf
Your data spans the operation, from ERP and production systems on the plant floor to warehouse, quality, and the sales and syndicated data from the retailers you supply. We bring it together into food and beverage data analytics your operations and commercial teams can read at a glance.
That span is why our Manufacturing analytics and Retail analytics work overlaps here: a producer runs a plant and sells through shelves at once. We connect both sides so forecasting, trade spend, and sell-through sit next to yield and cost.
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Traceability and Food Safety Without the Fire Drill
Food safety data carries stakes an ordinary dashboard never faces. We build lot and batch traceability into the reporting from the start, so a quality question or a recall becomes a fast, documented lookup rather than a frantic search through paper and spreadsheets.
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Built on Power BI and Microsoft Fabric
We build food and beverage analytics on Microsoft Power BI for the dashboards and Microsoft Fabric for the data platform underneath. For the reporting craft see our Power BI consultant page, and for the platform see our Microsoft Fabric consulting page.
Most producers start with Power BI done well on the metrics that drive margin, then grow into Fabric as production, quality, and retail data multiply. We help you separate a real platform need from an upgrade that can wait.
What working with Us Looks like
Plenty of analytics firms will hand a producer a generic dashboard and leave. We learn how your product actually gets made and sold first, build to that, and document everything so your team keeps control long after we step back.
32%
INCREASE IN DECISION SPEED
27%
REDUCTION IN OPERATIONAL COSTS
2.4x
INCREASE DATA UTILIZATION
96%
DATA ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT
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Common Questions
Can you connect our ERP and production systems?
Yes. We regularly pull from ERP, production or MES, warehouse, and quality systems, through their databases, extracts, or interfaces, and combine that with sales and retailer data. We do not replace those systems; we make their data usable in one place.
Can this help us cut waste and control cost of goods?
It can. Once production, inventory, and cost data are reconciled, the same foundation exposes where yield slips and waste builds, and tracks true cost of goods by product, so the numbers show up while you can still act on them.
Can you support traceability and recalls?
Yes. When lot and batch data are connected, tracing an ingredient or product through the operation becomes a quick, documented query, which turns a recall or audit from a scramble into a routine lookup.
How long until we see something useful?
A first dashboard on a priority area, cost of goods, yield, or waste, usually lands in weeks. We get one trustworthy view in front of your team early rather than waiting to model the whole operation, then build out from there.
Talk to Us About Your Operation
If your team is chasing cost of goods across systems or finding out about waste too late, a short conversation will show what is possible. Book a time and we will walk through your data and where the fastest win is.
