Harvest - Production Batching for Food

Harvest - Production Batching for Food enhances Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central’s manufacturing module by aligning production planning and production order execution with Production BOM units of measure. The solution helps manufacturers plan, produce, and document work in practical batch quantities instead of relying only on the item’s base unit of measure.

This enhancement improves manufacturing visibility and control by allowing production orders to use BOM-based batch logic, supporting planning by batch quantities, printing job cards by batch, and carrying BOM instructions and comments into production orders. The result is a more accurate and efficient production workflow for food manufacturers that depend on repeatable, batch-oriented production processes.

Key benefits

• Align production orders with BOM units of measure instead of only the item base unit of measure
• Support production planning by practical batch quantities and batch-related order modifiers
• Improve production traceability by carrying BOM header and line instructions into production orders
• Provide clearer batch documentation by printing job cards by batch, including partial batches

Features

• Creates production order lines using the Production BOM unit of measure, including active BOM versions
• Updates planning logic to suggest batches or orders based on BOM unit of measure, batch quantity, maximum order quantity, and order multiples
• Flows BOM header comments and BOM line comments into production order header and component comment lines
• Adds job card printing by batch, with support for batch count, total quantity, and partial-batch job cards

Industries served

Baked Goods, Beverage, Caterers, Confectionery, Distributors, Frozen, Ingredients, Nuts, Pasta, Pet Foods, Pizza, Prepared Packaged Foods, Sauces, Snacks, Spices

Future-ready foundation

Harvest - Production Batching for Food establishes a scalable manufacturing framework for expanded batch-based automation. Future enhancements may include more advanced batch scheduling, production capacity planning by batch, deeper lot and quality integrations, and additional production-document automation to support growing food manufacturing operations.

Supported editions

Premium

Countries supported

Canada, United States

Languages supported

English (United States)