Case Study: Fascia’s Chocolates streamlines recipe and ingredient cost management with OpenBOM

Fascia’s Chocolates Manages Ingredients And Product Recipe Process Using OpenBOM

Fascia's Chocolates, a family-owned chocolatier, faced challenges in managing its product costs and recipes using a limited Excel spreadsheet system. As their business expanded beyond retail into wholesale and corporate orders, this method became inadequate for tracking fluctuating ingredient costs and the complexities of their production process. They turned to the vendor OpenBOM for a modern ERP-style solution to manage their ingredients and product data.

OpenBOM provided a centralized platform for Fascia's to create detailed catalogs and bill of materials (BOM) for their chocolate recipes. The solution allowed them to manage costs, labor times, and even product weight, with changes to an ingredient's cost automatically updating across all related products. As a result, OpenBOM gave the company a clear understanding of unit economics, improved demand forecasting for sub-assemblies like caramel, and enabled them to accurately adjust pricing in response to market changes, effectively removing the guesswork from their process.

Fascia’s Chocolates

Bill Thomas

Operations Manager