Keep stock moving. Keep batches tracked. Keep customers supplied.
Tall Emu helps food and beverage distributors manage batches, expiry dates, recurring orders, stock movement and dispatch — so nothing slips through the gaps.
Fast-moving product leaves no room for slow systems.
Food and beverage distribution runs on tight margins, short shelf lives and customers who expect the same order every week. When your systems can’t keep up, the cost shows up as write-offs, recalls you can’t trace and customers who quietly stop ordering.
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Expired stock you didn’t catch in time
No visibility over expiry dates until it’s too late — and write-offs that could have been avoided with better batch tracking.
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Recalls you can’t trace fast enough
When a batch needs to be pulled, you need to know instantly which customers received it. Without batch tracking, that’s a scramble
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Recurring orders still processed manually
Your best customers order the same thing every week. But it still gets keyed in manually every time, creating unnecessary admin and room for error.
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No clear view of what’s in each warehouse
Stock spread across multiple locations with no single view of what’s where, what’s available and what’s about to expire.
The full food distribution flow, connected
Tall Emu connects batch tracking, expiry visibility, recurring orders and dispatch — so you’re always in control of what’s moving, what’s coming and what needs to go first.
Full traceability from supplier to customer. Nothing written off that didn’t need to be.
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Supplier
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Batch receipt
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Expiry tracking
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Recurring order
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Pick & pack
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Dispatch
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Xero / MYOB
Built for fast-moving, time-sensitive product
The features food and beverage distributors need — from batch receipt through to customer delivery.
Batch tracking
Track every batch from receipt to delivery — so you know exactly which customers received which batch if a recall is needed.
Expiry date management
Visibility over expiry dates across all stock — so you can prioritise older batches, reduce write-offs and stay compliant.
Recurring orders
Set up standing orders for regular customers so weekly or monthly orders are generated automatically — no manual re-entry.
Multi-warehouse stock
Real-time visibility across multiple locations — what’s in each warehouse, what’s available and what’s approaching expiry.
Customer-specific pricing
Manage pricing per customer or customer group and have it applied automatically on every recurring and one-off order.
Pick, pack and dispatch
Streamlined pick and pack workflows with FEFO (first expiry, first out) logic to ensure older stock ships first.
Delivery workflows
Manage delivery runs, generate dispatch notes and track outbound shipments — all connected to the order.
Purchase orders
Replenish stock from suppliers with purchase orders linked to batch receipts so traceability starts at the source.
Xero and MYOB integration
Two-way sync so invoices, payments and customer data flow automatically — no manual reconciling.
Waste less stock. Write off less. Move product faster.
Expired stock and untraced batches are expensive problems. Here’s where the cost builds up — and
where Tall Emu helps.
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The waste
Stock written off because expiry wasn’t visible until too late. Recalls that take hours to trace because batch records don’t exist. Recurring orders keyed in manually every week — with mistakes that cost customer relationships.
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The save
Expiry visibility before it becomes a write-off. Batch traceability that takes minutes, not hours. Recurring orders that run themselves. Less admin, less waste, more product moving to the right customers on time.
The ERP for growing businesses
If you’ve outgrown Xero and spreadsheets but don’t need the cost and complexity of a full ERP — Tall Emu is built for exactly that gap.
vs Xero / MYOB add-ons
Accounting software handles the books. Tall Emu handles batch tracking, expiry, recurring orders and dispatch — everything accounting tools aren’t built for.
vs CRM-only tools
CRMs manage contacts and pipelines. They don’t touch batch tracking, expiry dates or warehouse management. Tall Emu does all of it
vs full ERP
NetSuite and SAP are built for enterprise. Tall Emu gives growing Australian food and beverage businesses the same operational control — without the cost or complexity.
What food and beverage businesses say
REAL CUSTOMERS, REAL RESULTS
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"Tall Emu saved me 30–40 hours a week."
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"Tall Emu CRM has transformed how we manage our business. It's easy to use, integrates seamlessly with Xero, and saves us hours of admin work."
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"It handles everything without ever feeling complicated, which saves us a lot of time."
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"Managing orders, customers, follow-ups — it's all in the one spot and way more organised."