From the karigar
to the dark store.
Built for packaged-food manufacturers running their own production, their own retail and a shelf in modern trade at the same time. Recipes, allergens, shelf life and channel pricing on one record — with the batch traceable in both directions.
An industry accelerator on the Prabandh platform — the same ERP, PLM, CRM and QMS core every other industry runs on.
The problem
You make packaged food, and you sell it through five channels at four prices.
The recipe changes. The label, the allergen list and the price list do not.
Allergen declarations maintained by hand drift from the recipe the moment a sub-recipe changes — and sub-recipes are exactly where hand-maintained allergen lists go wrong. Channel pricing lives in a spreadsheet that the invoice does not read. Shelf life is a judgement made at the picking face.
You will recognise these
- A label is printed from a recipe version that is no longer the one in the kettle
- General trade, modern trade and quick commerce quietly get the wrong price
- Stock ships with too little shelf life left for the customer to sell it
- A recall question means opening batch registers and hoping
- Karigar piece-rate is reconciled at month end from paper
What it costs when it goes wrong
A mis-declared allergen is not a quality issue — it is a recall, an FSSAI action, and a brand event that outlives the batch by years.
How Prabandh fixes it
- 01
Labels generated from the recipe that made the batch
The declaration and the product cannot drift apart, because the label is produced from the same record the batch was produced from — including allergens rolled up through sub-recipes.
- 02
Shelf life enforced at picking, not judged there
First-expiry-first-out at the picking face, with a gate that refuses to ship stock that will expire in transit before the customer can sell it.
- 03
Channel pricing resolved on the invoice
A distinct price list per channel — general trade, modern trade, e-commerce, quick commerce, franchise — applied automatically, so the spreadsheet stops being the source of truth.
- 04
Two-way batch traceability
Back to the ingredient lots, forward to every invoice it shipped on. Those are the only two questions a recall actually asks.
What changes
The label, the price and the expiry are all consequences of the same record — so they cannot disagree with each other.
Six capabilities you would otherwise build yourself.
Everything below is on top of the shared core — not instead of it.
Recipe Scaler with Allergen Roll-Up
Scale a recipe and the ingredient list, cost and allergen declaration scale with it — including through sub-recipes, which is where hand-maintained allergen lists go wrong.
FSSAI Label Generation
Labels generated from the recipe that produced the batch, so the declaration and the product cannot drift apart.
Shelf Life & FEFO
First-expiry-first-out enforced at picking, with a shelf-life gate that refuses to ship stock that will expire in transit.
Two-Way Batch Traceability
A batch traces back to its ingredient lots and forward to every invoice it shipped on — the two questions a recall actually asks.
Channel Pricing
Distinct price lists per channel — general trade, modern trade, e-commerce, quick commerce, franchise — resolved automatically on the invoice.
Modern Trade & Q-Commerce
Retailer scorecards, dark-store inventory and marketplace sync, so the channel that is quietly losing money is visible.
Eight integrated modules. One login.
Recipes
Browser and scaler with yield, cost and allergen roll-up.
Batches
Genealogy, release log and forward invoice trace.
FSSAI Labels
Label PDF generated from the batch recipe.
Lab & CoA
Test definitions, results and certificate of analysis.
Hampers
Composite products with rolled-up cost and allergens.
Channel Pricing
Per-channel price lists resolved at invoice time.
POS & Franchise
Counter sales, outlets and franchise settlement.
Karigar Piece-Rate
Piece-rate production logging and payout.
The frameworks this industry is audited against.
A label is generated from the batch it describes. Nothing is transcribed, so nothing can be transcribed wrongly.
A capability built for one reaches the rest.
The lifecycle freeze protecting a released drawing is the same one protecting an issued tech pack. The batch genealogy behind a food recall is the same engine behind fibre supplier-lot traceability.
Where we stop today
The honest boundary for sweets, namkeen & food, so you hear it here rather than three weeks into an evaluation. Everything above is built and reachable; everything below is not.
- HACCP and ISO 22000 plan management is not built — CCPs, hazard analysis and verification schedules live outside the system today.
- FoSTaC supervisor training records are not tracked.
- The nutritional panel is entered per product; it is not computed from the ingredient master.
Several of these are scoped and buildable on the shared core — ask, and we will tell you what it would take rather than whether it is “on the roadmap”.
Ready to run food & snacks on one system?
See the Sweets, Namkeen & Food accelerator in 30 minutes — we walk your own process, not a generic demo script.