Cash Flow Software for the Food and Drink Manufactures
With raw material and energy prices this volatile, cash management in food and drink leaves no room for guesswork. Agicap centralises data from all your sites, ERPs and bank accounts to model future cash flows and manage group cash, entity by entity.
What makes cash management in food and drink different
Of a £20.24 basket of nine everyday products, the whole UK food chain earned just 29p in profit in 2025 (IGD, 2026). So every shock lands on your cash:
Volatile input costs squeeze liquidity before you can renegotiate selling prices.
Record exports of £25.6bn in 2025 leave margins exposed to the euro and the dollar (FDF, 2026).
Packaging EPR fees, invoiced since October 2025, add a new cash outflow to plan for (GOV.UK, 2025).
What if you could see every shock coming before it hits your cash?
Manage cash across your whole group with Agicap
Connect all your sites, subsidiaries and ERPs in one view
Complement your food ERP with a multi-bank, multi-entity cash flow forecast. Agicap centralises your bank data and syncs in real time with your ERP to turn your operational data into cash forecasts:
Supplier orders, including raw material purchases (to anticipate cash outflows)
Supplier and customer invoices
Journal entries and payment schedules
The impact of stock movements on your forecast working capital
Cash management moves out of spreadsheets, bank portals and emails into a single source of truth for the whole group.
Manage working capital week by week, entity by entity
Each site and subsidiary applies its own customer and supplier payment terms, and your short-term cash depends directly on them being met. Agicap tracks your receivables and payables entity by entity and consolidated:
Outstanding receivables, aged debtors and DSO tracking, with automated credit control
Outstanding payables and payment runs managed to optimise your DPO
Real-time bank feeds via SWIFT and H2H, so every incoming payment shows up as it lands
Every week you know which invoices to chase and which payments to schedule, with no manual consolidation.
Control purchasing commitments and optimise your payment runs
A rise in commodity prices or a late harvest season shifts your financing needs months ahead. Agicap models these variations in your scenarios:
Raw material and energy price rises, by entity or consolidated
Cash swings driven by seasonal production and harvests
The cash impact of an acquisition, including debt and intercompany financing
Size the financing you need before you sign an acquisition, with no Excel rework.
Choose between self-financing, borrowing and investing your surplus cash
Agicap centralises your cash on hand, intercompany flows, investments and borrowings to measure your group's internal resources:
Identify surplus cash you can deploy above your safety threshold, and fund your entities internally through intercompany loans
Track your investments (term deposits, funds, bonds), with automatic interest calculation on term deposits
Plan CAPEX outflows and their payment schedules
Optimise your financing plan (loans, leasing, grants)
Decide whether to invest, deploy or repay by measuring the direct impact on group liquidity.
Cash management built for every part of the food and drink industry
Shorten the cycle between paying out and getting paid
You pay suppliers before your customers pay you, and that gap weighs on your cash with every order cycle. Manage your outstanding receivables and shorten your cash conversion cycle with Agicap's automated credit control. Receivables, supplier due dates and financing are consolidated for an accurate view of your liquidity at every due date.
One source of cash data, used by every role
With Agicap, the CFO:
Steers the group's consolidated cash position in real time, across entities and currencies.
Has complete, up-to-date financial reporting to present to the executive committee, the board and financing partners.
Prioritises CAPEX outflows according to available cash and dedicated financing.
Anticipates covenant compliance and secures liquidity ratios with lenders.
More than 8,000 finance teams, including food retailers, use Agicap
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FAQs: cash management software for the food and drink industry
Does Agicap replace my food ERP?
No. Agicap plugs into your ERP to pull purchase orders, invoices and journal entries, then covers what the ERP doesn't: multi-bank cash position, cash flow forecasting, working capital management and payment execution.
How long does it take to integrate a new acquisition?
Direct bank connections and ERP sync are rolled out entity by entity. The Milexia group, for example (a mid-market company with over €50m in revenue), integrates each new acquisition within six weeks.
Does Agicap handle multiple currencies?
Yes, with exposure tracking and consolidation in the group currency.
Agicap prepares international transfers in more than 80 currencies, to banks in more than 130 countries.
How does Agicap improve working capital in practice?
Agicap helps you optimise and anticipate working capital on three fronts:
Reducing DSO (receivables): fewer late payments and bad debts thanks to automated, customisable credit control plans.
Optimising DPO (payables): scheduling payments as close to terms as possible to maximise supplier credit without penalties or supply chain disruption.
Anticipating working capital peaks (stock and seasonality): simulating the cash impact of changes in stock, purchase prices and seasonality to adjust drawdowns on your short-term financing (invoice finance, authorised overdraft, revolving credit facility (RCF), seasonal working capital facilities, stock finance or asset-based lending).
Does Agicap replace my stock management tool?
No. Agicap is cash management software, not a stock management tool: the platform doesn't manage your product references, goods in and out or replenishment. Those stay with your ERP or MES.
Agicap turns your production and purchasing decisions into cash. In food and drink, every pound committed to raw material stock or supply cover is a pound you can no longer use to pay suppliers, fund a production line or invest.
