Case Study: The Lone Grazer Creamery achieves streamlined batch manufacturing, traceability, and QuickBooks-integrated inventory management with Acctivate

The Lone Grazer Creamery delivers value and quality to its customers by harnessing the power of Acctivate

The Lone Grazer Creamery, a Minnesota artisan cheese maker and part of Food Building LLC, faced the challenge of managing complex batch manufacturing, ingredient substitutions, lot traceability and a highly distributed direct‑to‑retail delivery model while already using QuickBooks. They needed a robust inventory and manufacturing system that could handle multi‑level assemblies, record lot numbers for traceability, and integrate with their existing accounting without the cost and upkeep of on‑premises servers.

Acctivate delivered a comprehensive inventory and manufacturing solution (hosted alongside QuickBooks via NovelAspect) that enabled dynamic batch processing, multi‑level assemblies, bidirectional QuickBooks synchronization, detailed reporting and lot number traceability. As a result, The Lone Grazer Creamery streamlined POs and invoicing, eliminated duplicate data entry, improved visibility into inventory and sales, made recalls straightforward, and kept product extremely fresh by shipping same‑day—outcomes the team attributes directly to Acctivate.

The Lone Grazer Creamery

Carrie Nicklow

President