Central Food by OTE
ERP for Food Wholesale with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Reliable Fresh Produce Logistics Product-Centric Operations End-to-End Goods Flows Multiple Sales Channels Complex Pricing Structures Transparent Certification Management Custom Supply Chains Full Batch Traceability Flexible Product Assortments
Built for wholesale. Ready to use from day one.
Ready to Use
Modular Architecture
Fully Integrated ERP
The Foundation for Your Digital Transformation
Freshness, Quality and Precision
Built for Your Requirements
Key capabilities that help you stay on top of freshness, shelf life, quality and inventory levels:
Building Blocks for Your Success
Get Started Agile. Innovative. Reliable. Cost-conscious. Future-ready. Service-oriented. Faster than the rest.
What Can Central Food from OTE Do for Your Business?
Quite simply: this suite of modular apps supports every aspect of your modern, digital food wholesale operations.
Whether you supply your own stores, serve customers in hospitality and food service, or operate in a specialized food market, OTE provides the software and technology to help you stay agile, work efficiently and remain competitive in a demanding market.
On Equal Footing
Why OTE? What You Can Expect from Us
Food wholesalers operate in a fast-moving environment where purchasing, inventory, logistics and sales must work together seamlessly despite tight deadlines and complex supply chains. Understanding these challenges is what drives us to deliver solutions that keep your business running smoothly.
We are your Microsoft partner with strong local roots, close customer relationships and straightforward ERP consulting.
We bring together the right modules, apps and integrations to fit your business.
We help improve your business processes with a long-term perspective and a commitment to getting things right.
We work with you to shape your digital transformation.
The Technology Behind It
Innovation and Experience:
Why We Rely on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the central platform for your business operations – from purchasing and sales to inventory, logistics, finance and reporting.
Built for the needs of growing businesses, this modern cloud-based ERP solution helps bring your processes together in one system. It is intuitive to use, flexible to adapt and designed to grow alongside your business.
Business Central helps you save time, reduce manual effort and avoid costly errors. Automated workflows, intelligent reporting and seamless Microsoft Power BI integration give you the insights needed to make better business decisions. The result is greater structure, faster processes and clear visibility across your operations.
What Our Customers Say
Successful mid-sized businesses rely on Central Food. Discover how OTE helps companies streamline operations, reduce costs and improve efficiency through real-world customer stories and project examples.
"The digitalization of our warehouse operations has significantly improved our processes. Today, we work more efficiently, with fewer errors and a noticeable increase in productivity."
Read the Customer Story
How Other Food Wholesalers Benefit from Central Food
The Digital Backbone for Sustainable Growth
How ORFO Logistik and EPOS Bio Partner Rethought Their Processes: Digitizing Wholesale Warehouse Operations with Business Central
You Ask. We Answer.
FAQs
Can Central Food handle different product packaging units flexibly?
Yes. Central Food allows you to manage packaging units as separate units of measure at the product level and adjust them flexibly throughout purchasing and sales processes, including partial-unit transactions and split-case handling.
How Does Central Food Support Customer-Specific and Promotional Product Assortments?
In der Central Food-Lösung können Sie Ihren Kunden flexibel deren Listenartikel als Sortiment zuweisen. Spezielle Sortimente (z. B. für saisonale Aktionen) können ebenfalls zusammengestellt und verwaltet werden.
Does Central Food Support Individual Product Weights?
Yes. Central Food provides comprehensive support for products with variable weights. The solution processes the actual weight of each individual item and includes tolerance checks during goods receipt and dispatch to help ensure realistic and accurate weight data. Product labels can be generated with item-specific weight information, and weights can be encoded directly into barcodes such as EAN-128. All weight data is fully traceable and managed together with the corresponding lot information.
How Does Central Food Support Promotional Pricing and Rebate Settlement Processes for Customers and Suppliers?
Yes. Central Food supports the retrospective aggregation of sales data by supplier, customer or customer group to calculate rebates, bonuses and supplier-funded allowances. Flexible inclusion and exclusion criteria can be defined to ensure that settlement calculations reflect your specific agreements and business rules.
Can We Manage Promotional Pricing Centrally with Central Food?
Yes. Central Food offers extensive options for managing discounts, rebates and bonus agreements. From centralized planning to detailed control of rebate programs, conditions can be defined based on time periods, sales volumes, customer groups and other business-specific criteria.
Does Central Food Support the Management of Complaints, Returns and Product Recalls?
Yes. You can rely on Central Food to support the entire complaints and returns process. The solution connects both sales and purchasing workflows, providing comprehensive returns documentation and full process traceability. In the event of quality issues or product recalls, Central Food includes a dedicated recall process to quickly identify and track deliveries affected by specific lots.
How Does Central Food Support the Digital Management of Warehouse Operations?
Yes. All warehouse transactions can be captured on mobile devices and transferred directly to the ERP system in real time. This includes data capture, barcode and QR code generation, and the mobile execution of day-to-day warehouse processes such as goods receipt, put-away, stock transfers, goods dispatch, picking and inventory counts.
Of course. Central Food is designed to support the specific requirements of the food industry, including the integration of weighing processes and the execution of weight-based inventory counts.
Does Central Food Include Features for Regulatory Reporting Requirements?
Yes. Central Food enables you to generate regulatory reports such as Intrastat declarations and EC Sales Lists (ESL) directly from the system and submit them to the relevant authorities.
Does Central Food Support Electronic Invoicing?
Yes. Central Food supports both the sending and receiving of electronic invoices in line with current regulatory requirements, including EU standards. Electronic invoice formats such as XRechnung can be processed directly within the ERP system, helping streamline invoicing and compliance workflows.
Can We Consolidate Orders in Central Food for Combined or Separate Invoicing?
Yes. Central Food allows you to consolidate incoming customer orders based on specific requirements, such as predefined delivery dates. The system also supports consolidated invoicing based on configurable billing cycles, including daily, weekly or other time-based intervals.
Does Central Food Support the Digital Exchange of Logistics Documents?
Yes. Digital document exchange is fully supported. Delivery documents such as electronic delivery notes and DESADV messages can be transmitted automatically to carriers, logistics partners and recipients as part of the delivery process.
Can Central Food Manage HACCP Goods Receipt Inspections as Well as Quality and Laboratory Testing Processes?
Yes. Central Food allows you to manage quality inspections directly at the product level, including all recorded test results and measurement values. Supporting documents, certificates and related quality records are stored alongside the inspection data, providing complete traceability and documentation.
How Are External Master Data Sources Integrated with Central Food?
Yes. Central Food comes with prebuilt integrations for leading master data platforms in the food industry, including Data NatuRe and BNN (German Association of Organic Food Producers, Processors and Retailers). Additional master data sources can be connected easily through our universal integration framework, ensuring that all relevant information is available in one place – directly within your ERP system.
Can We Create Custom Reports and Analyses with Central Food?
Yes. In addition to a wide range of preconfigured reports and analyses available out of the box, Central Food also supports highly customized reporting and analytics through Microsoft Power BI. This gives you the flexibility to analyze your data exactly the way your business requires.
Need More Information?
We are happy to answer your questions, give you a demo of our modular solutions or discuss potential approaches for your ERP project in a no-obligation initial consultation.