Hellenic MES

Hellenic Systems is a UK maker of manufacturing execution software and shop-floor hardware for food processors, especially meat and poultry. Its products cover kill-line and livestock control (CARCASE), factory order processing (FOPS8) and recipe weighing and batch control (FORMIX), plus scales, label printers and terminals. It says it serves more than 130 sites in the UK and Europe.

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Best for
Meat, poultry and fish processors, Food factories that weigh ingredients to a recipe
Pricing
Quote only

Who it is for

  • Meat, poultry and fish processors

    CARCASE handles abattoir intake, kill line and regulatory reporting, and FOPS8 handles order, yield and dispatch control; the site lists poultry, pork, beef, lamb and fish among its sectors.

  • Food factories that weigh ingredients to a recipe

    FORMIX guides operators through recipe weighing with lot and batch traceability and keeps working if the network goes down.

  • Multi-site food manufacturers using ERP

    FOPS8 gives multi-site visibility and integrates with ERP platforms such as Sage and Microsoft Dynamics.

What it does

  • Production order scheduling and execution

    FOPS8 runs each production order in real time, guiding operators and tracking materials and performance on the shop floor.

  • Yield and catchweight capture

    Records intake, output and yield during processing to show true product cost.

  • Sales orders, EDI and dispatch

    Handles sales order processing with EDI connectivity, dispatch preparation and load management.

  • Live stock updates and intake

    Updates stock live across production and dispatch, with integrated purchasing and supplier intake.

  • Guided recipe weighing

    FORMIX walks operators through recipes, records every weighing with ingredient lot, batch and operator details, and manages allergens and compliance checks.

  • Ingredient and batch traceability

    Keeps full ingredient and batch traceability for five years, according to the vendor.

  • Livestock intake and kill-line control

    CARCASE manages animal booking, lairage scanning, grading, inspection and payments for abattoirs, with RFID and eartag scanning.

  • Regulatory movement reporting

    Generates ARAMS and BCMS movement reporting from kill-line activity, including an ARAMS export web application for sheep movements in England.

  • Livestock payment system

    A procurement and payment module for animal payments.

  • Shop-floor hardware

    Supplies outer case marking systems, carcass data capture, weigh scales, touch-screen terminals, RF scanners and label printers.

Pricing

Pricing model
Quote only

No prices are published; each product page offers a demo request. A perpetual licence agreement is published on the site (initial licence, set-up and training fees plus a maintenance programme), with fees set in an order form. FORMIX has an online savings calculator, not a price list.

How it compares

Compared with the 13 products in Food Manufacturing Execution & Production Planning that have a profile on this site. These figures describe the category. They are not a recommendation.

  • Names 2 integrations. The median in this category is 2.
  • The category's 10 most-named integration partners are QuickBooks, Sage, SAP, NetSuite, Sage X3, Xero, Ad Hoc Infinity, Ad Hoc Revolution Web, Allen-Bradley, Azure Active Directory. Of these, this product's listing names Sage.

Works with

Accounting
Sage
Other
Microsoft Dynamics

The FOPS8 page says it integrates with ERP platforms 'such as' Sage and Microsoft Dynamics, plus accounting, EDI, warehouse and labelling systems without naming them. FORMIX integrates with FOPS8.

Where and how it runs

Customers in
United Kingdom, Ireland
Hardware
Hellenic supplies its own hardware: Auto OCM and OCM outer case marking systems, a Black Box carcass data capture system, weigh scales, touch-screen terminals, RF PDCU wireless scanners and label printers.

Hellenic says it serves customers in the UK and Europe; Ireland is inferred from a Hilton Foods Ireland testimonial.

The company

Company
Hellenic Systems Limited
Registration
Registered in England, number 2316023
Founded
1988
Headquarters
South Woodham Ferrers, United Kingdom
Customers named by the vendor
Dunbia Ltd, Hilton Foods Ireland

Security and support

Support
Contract support runs 08:30 to 17:30 by phone, with out-of-hours emergency support only for customers on a maintenance agreement with 24-hour support; service engineers are spread across the UK.

Listing details

Vendor
Hellenic Systems
Built for
Food manufacturing
Focus
General-purpose, used in food businesses
Status
Active
Website
hellenic.co.uk

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    Names 10 integrations, against 2 for Hellenic MES.

  • Tracktile

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    Names 7 integrations, against 2 for Hellenic MES.

  • BRAINR

    BRAINR is cloud software for food factories that covers production planning, shop-floor execution, quality, traceability and warehousing in one system.

    Names 10 integrations, against 2 for Hellenic MES.

  • V5 Traceability

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    Names 6 integrations, against 2 for Hellenic MES.

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What we could not confirm

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

  • Any price or licence fee amounts
  • Whether the software is cloud-hosted or installed on site, and supported operating systems
  • Complete list of integrations
  • Parent company (the site footer links to other companies without stating ownership)
  • Team size and funding
  • Security certifications

Sources

Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.

  1. Homepage, sectors, hardware listhttps://www.hellenic.co.uk
  2. Founding year, customer counthttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/about/
  3. CARCASEhttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/solutions/software/carcase-kill-line-livestock-system/
  4. FOPS8https://www.hellenic.co.uk/solutions/software/fops8-factory-order-processing-system/
  5. FORMIXhttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/solutions/software/formix-recipe-management-system/
  6. Testimonialshttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/case-studies/
  7. Support hourshttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/support/
  8. Addresshttps://www.hellenic.co.uk/contact-us/