Who we help · Food & Beverage
Protect quality and margin while you scale
You're winning bigger orders and adding lines, but every gain seems to leak out in waste, overtime and shrinking margin. Mike finds the real constraint capping your plant and installs the ownership and cadence to fix it in weeks.
Sound familiar?
The challenges we hear most in food & beverage
Margin leaks faster than you can price
Ingredient and packaging costs jump quarter to quarter, but your price list and recipe yields don't keep pace, so a profitable SKU quietly turns into a loss-maker before anyone notices.
Demand spikes break the line
A retailer or distributor pulls forward a big order and suddenly you're chasing changeovers, expediting ingredients and burning overtime, while shelf-life clocks tick on the product you over-produced last week.
Compliance lives in one person's head
HACCP, traceability and CFIA readiness depend on a couple of key people and a binder, so audits, recalls and customer questions create scramble instead of a calm, repeatable answer.
Typical outcomes
What changes when food & beverage starts to flow
6 pts
gross margin recovered
30%
less product waste and giveaway
Weeks
to a working plan, not quarters
Use case · Food & Beverage
We were growing revenue but losing money on our fastest-moving line. Mike found the constraint in our changeovers and pricing, and within two months we were running fewer SKUs better and actually keeping the margin.
Managing Director
Food processor, Fraser Valley · ~$16M
+7 pts
margin on core lines
22%
more output per shift
3 days
to audit-ready traceability
How VITO helps
The levers that move food & beverage
Pricing & Margin Recovery
Recover margin that's quietly leaking through pricing, rework and scope creep.
Learn more →Scheduling & Capacity
Schedule for flow: fewer interruptions, fewer setups, more output from what you have.
Learn more →Quality Management System
Protect the customer and the business with quality that holds under pressure.
Learn more →Planning & Supply Chain
Align demand, materials and capacity so the operation isn't always reacting.
Learn more →Lean & Continuous Improvement
Build a culture that finds and removes constraints, week after week.
Learn more →KPI & Daily Management
Make performance visible with the numbers and daily rhythms that drive it.
Learn more →Why VITO
Why VITO gets food & beverage
Food and beverage is a value stream you can see: ingredients flow in, through the line, and out to retail, and margin is made or lost at every handoff. Mike maps that flow, finds where quality, yield or shelf life is capping you, and installs the daily cadence to hold the gain. As a partner connected to BC Food & Beverage, he speaks the language of producers across BC and Canada.
- ✓Fluent in HACCP, CFIA and traceability realities, not just generic ops
- ✓Connected through BC Food & Beverage to the local producer community
- ✓Treats yield, waste and shelf life as margin levers, not just plant metrics
Ready when you are
Ready to unlock your value stream?
Start with a value-flow review and get a clear read on where growth is getting stuck, and what it takes to set it moving.