Shelf life, safety and margin are one decision, not three.
In the food industry the efficiency of production is directly tied to product safety, shelf life, temperature regimes and traceability of raw materials. Mantikon is designed to join production systems, warehouse records, laboratory results, logistics, supplier information and retail data into a single traceable model.
- Next waveDesigned as an application area; a demonstrated world model in this domain comes first.
- Who decidesOperations director, production planning, supply chain, quality
- Typical sourcesMES and batch records, laboratory results, warehouse and cold-chain data, supplier records, retail demand
- 01
Trace in one step
Each batch carries the origin of its raw material, the conditions of processing, its packaging, transport and distribution, so a question about one ingredient resolves into a precise list of batches and locations.
Traceability - 02
Weigh the isolation
The economic agent prices each containment option while the safety agent sets the limits that may not be traded, and the decision records both.
Trade-offs - 03
Plan the perishable
Demand forecast, remaining shelf life, production capacity and transport constraints are optimized together rather than department by department.
Scenarios
A worked
example
Illustrative scenario, not a customer case.
Laboratory control finds a potential quality deviation in one ingredient. The platform identifies every production batch in which that material was used, together with the related stock and the delivery routes it has already taken.
The quality agent assesses the nature of the deviation. The logistics agent locates the product. The economic agent calculates the consequences of different containment options. The food-safety agent sets the required restrictions and passes the question to the responsible specialists.
Mantikon helps prepare a decision on isolating product, running additional checks and, if necessary, recalling the affected batches — with the evidence for each step attached.
Scope and
measures
Example workflows
Quality deviation containment · recall preparation · perishable planning · cold-chain exception review.
Evaluation metrics
Write-offs · time to trace a batch · recall scope accuracy · service level on short-dated goods.
Discuss a food operations use case