For food, supplement, cosmetic, OTC, and chemical manufacturers. Your team makes product. Tenkara owns the work around the work.
Trusted by Top Manufacturers
Built for the shops where everyone wears three hats
Contract manufacturers and private label operations quoting fast-moving briefs while running the floor.
Owners and ops leads carrying the whole operation in their heads, the suppliers, the schedule, and the binder.
Quality and procurement teams buried in documentation that only grows and supplier files that only age.
Find solutions to problems before they become problems
The batch that cost 11% more than March's. The answer was in your systems the whole time, split across the ERP, the inbox, and a spreadsheet. Tenkara reads them all and flags it while it's still small, with the cost attached and the fix already sourced.
"We found out a material had crept 9% in a quarter. Nobody had touched that price sheet in a year." Operations lead, supplement manufacturer
Pass the audit with flying colors
MOCRA, FSMA, organic. Whatever your letters are, the paperwork rots quietly between audits. Tenkara digitizes it, flags the gaps before the auditor does, and logs sign-offs as work happens. You stop preparing for audits because you're always ready.
"A blogger accused us of mislabeling. We pulled the full testing trail on that lot in about a minute." QA manager, food & beverage manufacturer
Stop letting one late arrival ruin your week
The oats land on Tuesday, the labels land on Friday, and you can't run until Friday, but the schedule on the whiteboard still says Wednesday. Tenkara tracks every material, component, and packaging delivery to one production-ready date, and the schedule rebuilds itself around downtime, staffing, and what's actually inbound. One delay reshuffles the board instead of detonating it.
"We used to find out we were short at 6 am from the floor. That call just stopped happening." Plant manager, chemical manufacturer
Make more money and improve your cash flow
You pay suppliers in 15 and collect in 45, and the 30 days between is your money working for everyone but you. Tenkara closes the gap from both ends: extend supplier terms, sell the receivable and collect now, and let clients fund bigger orders through third-party financing, zero risk to you, paid day one.
"Every growth month used to feel like a cash crisis. The gap between paying and getting paid was eating us." Owner, cosmetics manufacturer
Every answer lives in a different system or in somebody's head. Audit prep is a two-week scramble for records that should already exist. The schedule breaks every time one truck runs late. Cash leaves in 15 days and comes back in 45.
Every system reads into one Command Center. Compliance files itself as the work happens. The schedule absorbs the late truck and keeps moving. You're paid before you pay.
Shortages get caught days early, not the morning of. Reorders draft themselves off live inventory and real lead times. Production stops being the first to know.
Audit prep goes away as a task. Documentation files itself as work happens, sign-offs, revisions, lot traces. When the auditor asks, it's already there.
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