Plex MES for Food & Beverage

• Food and beverage manufacturers

  The industry page lists bakery, private label, snacks, confectionery, beverage, contract packaging, prepared food, dairy and meat producers as target segments.

• Plants that already run an ERP and need a production system

  The vendor says its MES can connect to an existing ERP such as SAP or Dynamics, or be bought together with Plex ERP.

Less suited to: Restaurants and other food service businesses. The product is aimed at manufacturing plants.

• Batch-oriented MES

  Models expected yield losses, reports actual yield, labor efficiency and production cost, and schedules batches in series or parallel across workcenters.

• In-process quality control and stock rotation

  Enforces quality control plans during production to support proper rotation of perishable stock.

• Labeling and weigh scale integration

  Connects to weigh scales and offers configurable container and pallet labeling.

• Food safety and quality management

  Runs quality checks on any device from receiving to finished goods, including allergen and country-of-origin tracking, SPC and supplier quality management.

• Lot traceability and recall response

  Traces lots and non-conforming inventory at any stage and supports mock or actual recalls.

• Supply chain planning

  Statistical demand forecasting using sales history and point-of-sale feeds, distribution requirements planning across sites and material requirements planning.

• Plant floor automation and orchestration

  Captures machine data automatically to record production, set up jobs and print lineside labels.

• Production monitoring and asset performance management

  Shows machine status and OEE and tracks asset health to prevent downtime.

• Plex Mobile

  Role-specific access to the platform from any device.

• EDI

  A library of 18 off-the-shelf EDI documents and 112 food industry trading partners, processed inside Plex ERP.

• Optional ERP

  Modular MES and quality options can be extended to a full ERP with supply chain management.

Pricing model

Quote only

No prices are published; the industry page ends with a Contact Us prompt and product pages offer a demo.

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.
• Lists Web only. Among the 12 products in this category that state their platforms, 2 list an iOS app and 3 list an Android app.
• 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 SAP.

Other

SAPDynamics

The vendor says MES, QMS and other modules can integrate with any ERP (it names SAP and Dynamics) and with plant floor process control systems, and that an API library links to nutritional labelling, trade promotion management and transportation management systems without naming products.

Languages

English, Italian, German, Japanese

Platforms

Web

Apps

Plex Mobile: Role-specific access to the platform on mobile devices

Hardware

Integrates with weigh scales and plant floor equipment; the vendor says its production monitoring works without complex hardware or custom software.

The customers page says Plex has customers in 37 countries but does not list them. The site has English, Italian, German and Japanese versions.

Customers named by the vendor

Hausbeck Pickles, Shank's Extracts, WonTon Food Inc, Olde Thompson, US Hydrations

Security and compliance

ISO/IEC 27001:2013, 99.9% uptime SLA

Support

Customer reviews on the site mention a Plex user community; no support hours are stated on the vendor's site.

Vendor

Rockwell Automation

Headquarters

United States

Built for

Food manufacturing

Focus

General-purpose, used in food businesses

Status

Active

Website

plex.rockwellautomation.com

• BRAINR

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

  Runs on Web and Android, against Web for Plex MES for Food & Beverage.

• iFactory

  iFactory AI is industrial software for factories that combines a manufacturing execution system, maintenance management, OEE tracking, AI vision cameras and digital twins.

  Runs on Web, iOS and Android, against Web for Plex MES for Food & Beverage.

• Tracktile

  Tracktile is a cloud manufacturing execution platform for food and beverage producers.

  Names 7 integrations, against 2 for Plex MES for Food & Beverage.

• V5 Traceability

  V5 Traceability is a manufacturing execution, quality management and warehouse management system from SG Systems Global, aimed at regulated process manufacturers.

  Names 6 integrations, against 2 for Plex MES for Food & Beverage.

Side-by-side tables built from the same profile data.

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• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs iFactory
• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs Infinity Traxal
• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs Tracktile
• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs V5 Traceability
• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs BRAINR vs iFactory
• Plex MES for Food & Beverage vs BRAINR vs iFactory vs Tracktile

These points were not confirmed when this page was written.

• Pricing and contract terms
• Founding year, headquarters and team size of the Plex business
• Named software integrations beyond the ERP examples
• Full list of supported countries

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. food and beverage industry pagehttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/industries/food-and-beverage.html
2. MES product pagehttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/manufacturing-execution-system.html
3. QMS product pagehttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/quality-management-system.html
4. supply chain planning pagehttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/products/supply-chain.html
5. platform overviewhttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/smart-manufacturing-platform.html
6. cloud and securityhttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/platform/cloud-infrastructure-and-security.html
7. customer statisticshttps://plex.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/company/customers.html