Case Study: Quality Meats and Seafood achieves 40% higher steak gross margins and 15% inventory reduction with AFS Technologies' Ignition ERP

How Ignition helped Quality Meats and Seafood improve profit margins in a flux market

Quality Meats and Seafood, an employee‑owned meat and seafood processor serving the Dakotas for over 50 years, faced margin pressure when market prices fell in the mid‑2010s. They lacked visibility into cutting yields, true processing costs, inventory controls and product velocity. To address these challenges they engaged Ignition by AFS and its Ignition ERP production module to modernize costing, inventory and production tracking.

Ignition by AFS implemented the Ignition ERP production module, refined production formulas, and enabled out‑of‑the‑box inventory and yield reporting, giving buyers detailed product history and velocity. The result: far more accurate costing, gross margins on steaks increased nearly 40%, inventory on hand fell about 15%, and operations became noticeably more streamlined thanks to improved tracking and reporting.

Quality Meats and Seafood

Blair Kemmer

Chief Financial Officer