Aptean Food & Beverage is a serious mid-market ERP.
Keystone is everything that ERP project keeps pushing right.
Aptean Food & Beverage (formerly Process Pro, Indigo, and a few others Aptean acquired) is a real player in the food ERP space, process manufacturing, batch traceability, recipe management, retailer dispatch. The honest question for an Irish producer between €5m and €30m revenue is whether the right answer is a 12-month, six-figure Aptean implementation, or a focused production-layer SaaS that goes live in 30 days and sits beside whatever you already use for finance.
- Pilots scoped to go live in 30 days vs typical 9–14 month Aptean F&B implementations
- A right-sized per-site licence vs Aptean F&B six-figure entry point (implementation + first-year licence)
- Senior-led implementation, no Aptean partner mark-up
- Production-floor focus, not a finance-led ERP
Real screens, from our Public Sandbox.
Every screenshot below is captured from the Public Sandbox demo tenant with sample Irish dairy data. No mockups, no client data, no NDAs.
Depth, partner network, enterprise references.
Aptean F&B has deep manufacturing functionality (recipe management, MRP, demand planning, full lot-level traceability), a global partner network and serious enterprise references in food. For a 200+ employee producer with multi-line manufacturing, complex recipe management, and a board that wants a single ERP of record across finance and operations, Aptean is a legitimate choice.
Right-sized scope. Right-sized cost.
When to pick Aptean. When to pick Keystone.
Pick Aptean F&B if you are a €30m+ revenue food producer with complex multi-line manufacturing, formal recipe management requirements, MRP/demand planning needs and the timeline/budget for a serious ERP implementation. Pick Keystone if you are an artisan, family-owned or smaller mid-market producer where batch traceability, dispatch and retailer documentation are the urgent problems, and finance is already adequately served by an accounts package.
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