Who we serve
Margin recovery for food manufacturers
Your margin is decided on the production schedule, in the purchase order and on the maintenance floor — not in the sales meeting. Tribu makes those decisions with your own data, on the ERP you already run.
Where the margin goes
Every one of these is a decision somebody makes today with worse information than they should have.
The schedule optimises for cost, not margin
The cheapest batch and the most profitable batch are rarely the same batch. Sometimes the right call is to run the higher-margin line and accept the waste — but only if someone can see the net margin per batch against recipe limits and the crew you actually have on shift.
Procurement runs on relationships and memory
Hundreds of active vendors and thousands of SKUs to keep a year-round supply. Quality and price drift with the season. The information needed to hold a vendor to their number lives in inboxes, not in a report.
Maintenance is reactive, so the line stops
When spare parts inventory is only 50-60% accurate and the equipment is aging, preventive schedules slip. The cost never shows up as a maintenance line. It shows up as a production line that stopped.
You clean the data before you can use it
Reporting that needs an hour of manual cleanup before anyone trusts it, and sync gaps that leave sales and customer records disagreeing. By the time the number is right, the decision it was for has already been made.
The arithmetic
A manufacturer running nine active products through a plant with fixed capacity has a narrow set of levers: what you make, in what order, from whose ingredients, on equipment that has to keep running. Each of those is a margin decision made daily, usually on instinct, because assembling the data takes longer than the decision window allows.
We do not need you to migrate off your legacy system first. That is usually the reason nothing changes for another two years.
Same plant, same crew, different schedule — different net margin
How it works
It reads the systems you have
AS400, Sage, Power BI exports, the maintenance system, the spreadsheets your planners actually use. Tribu does not require a migration to start, and it does not become another thing to migrate later.
It schedules for net margin
Batch sequencing against recipe constraints, crew availability and real ingredient costs — surfacing the mix that makes the most money, not the one that costs the least to run.
It watches procurement and uptime
Vendor pricing against what you agreed, parts consumption against what is actually on the shelf, and the maintenance that is slipping before it takes the line down.
Questions we get asked
- We are mid-migration off a legacy ERP. Should we wait?
- No. Migrations run long, and the margin decisions keep happening throughout. Tribu reads your current system and follows you to the new one — there is nothing to re-implement afterwards.
- Does this replace our maintenance or scheduling software?
- No. It reads them and tells you what they cannot: which slipping preventive task is about to cost you a production run, and which batch order makes the most margin this week.
- Our production data is messy. Is that a problem?
- It is the normal starting condition, and it is usually the finding rather than the obstacle. Part of the audit is showing you which records disagree with each other and what that disagreement costs.
- How long before we see anything?
- The margin audit takes days, not months, and you get the analysis whether or not you go further. We are deliberately not in the business of eighteen-month implementations.
- Do you work with Latin and specialty producers?
- Yes, and in Spanish. Our current production work is in Latin cheese and Latin specialty, which is also where we learned most of what is on this page.
Bring us one messy week of orders and invoices
We'll show you where the margin is leaking and what Tribu would have caught — before you commit to anything.
We also work with distributors and cpg brands. Seeing more than one tier of the same supply chain is how we spot what a single view misses.