Where your team’s time goes
01 / 03Recipe costs worked out by hand again, every time a supplier puts prices up.
When ingredient prices move, the product cost on file stops reflecting what the next batch will actually consume.
Industries
Food & Beverage
Ingredient prices, waste and sales channels all affect your margin. Basalt helps explain changes in recorded batch costs, brings channel results together and prepares the information your team needs when a lot is under investigation.
Where your team’s time goes
02 / 03Margin exported three times, one channel at a time, glued together in a spreadsheet only one person can run.
Wholesale, shops and direct sales describe the same product differently, leaving one person to rebuild the combined view.
Where your team’s time goes
03 / 03Waste found later, from a stock adjustment, once the batch has gone.
The loss reaches the numbers after the operational moment has passed, when the team can explain it but can no longer prevent it.
Workflows
Examples we can scope around your team’s work, Odoo setup and other tools. Your team reviews the agent’s work and approves the next step.
Workflow 1
Understand why batch costs are rising
Ingredient prices and waste keep changing. Your team rebuilds a spreadsheet to explain which batches became more expensive.
What the agent does: Brings together Odoo’s recorded batch costs, ingredient purchases and consumption records to explain changes across batches of the same product.
- Cost changes traced to ingredient prices and usage
- Repeated differences separated from one-off batches
- Findings ready for a recipe or pricing review
Workflow 2
See where each product earns its margin
The same product sells through wholesale, shops and your website. Comparing its margin means combining separate exports.
What the agent does: Matches product and sales records across the agreed channels and brings recorded costs, discounts and returns into one comparison.
- Product results compared across channels
- Missing costs or unmatched records flagged
- Pricing questions prepared for the commercial team
Workflow 3
Prepare the information your recall team needs
A batch needs investigating. The team has to gather customer details, deliveries and remaining stock while the clock is ticking.
What the agent does: Uses Odoo’s lot traceability records to assemble affected deliveries, stock by location and draft customer messages for the quality team.
- Customer and delivery records gathered in one pack
- Missing information flagged for investigation
- Quality team verifies the scope and sends messages
Deployment and results
Does our whole process need to be in Odoo already?
No. In the Map phase, we identify all the tools you use to run a specific workflow. We then move into the Deploy phase from there.
Does Basalt replace our Odoo integrator?
No. Your integrator maintains and develops Odoo. Basalt handles the AI layer on top: your workflows across Odoo modules and other software. Basalt works with the integrator where scopes meet.
How long before the first workflow is live?
Most companies have a first workflow in production within the first month. Timelines depend primarily on how quickly a client provides data access and approvals.
How do you measure results and ROI?
We determine the baseline, typically how many hours a workflow takes today, before deployment and compare the same workflow after it’s live. Ultimately, it depends on what we uncovered as your most important goals during the Map phase. We can also track metrics like cost to scale, process adoption, error reduction and qualitative team feedback. This is how we determine the result and ROI.
Bring us one workflow that takes too much time.
In 30 minutes, we will see whether it is worth mapping.
Book 30 minutes- Start with a real task
- Look at the modules involved
- Identify the control points
- Choose a clear next step