Spanish grape ingredient producer JULIAN SOLER is using Forterro’s MyForterro.ai platform within Abas ERP to calculate and rank recipes for daily production runs. The tool draws on production, laboratory, and quality data to compare raw material blends by cost and how closely they meet each customer’s specifications.
Forterro says the producer manages more than 1,000 items and handles 30 to 40 production runs a day. Recipe formulation previously relied on manual calculations in Excel. Forterro first mentioned the project when it introduced MyForterro.ai. Its November 13 announcement provides more detail on how the recipe rankings work and what JULIAN SOLER expects to gain.
How laboratory data informs recipe choices
JULIAN SOLER produces grape juice and concentrated grape must for food and beverage manufacturers in more than 60 countries. Its customers include makers of soft drinks, wine, vinegar, confectionery, and infant food. The company monitors batches from grape intake through shipment and checks characteristics such as concentration, acidity, pH, and color.
For each production run, the optimizer uses the company’s records to calculate viable combinations of raw materials. It then ranks the formulations by cost and how closely they match the customer’s requirements. Laboratory and production teams can use those rankings to compare options before processing begins.
“Without the production, quality and laboratory data, we could not have implemented this solution,” said Antonio López Soler of JULIAN SOLER in the announcement.
The project began at a two-day hackathon organized by Forterro’s Abas teams. JULIAN SOLER staff went on to configure the agent, refine its prompt, and select the AI models with support from Abas specialists. Alice Taylor, head of AI at Forterro, said the setup gives staff ranked recommendations they can act on in place of hours of spreadsheet calculations.
JULIAN SOLER targets four to eight hours in daily savings
The producer expects to save four to eight hours a day on recipe calculation and review. Forterro’s announcement also cites a projected improvement of up to 10% from factoring raw material costs into recipe selection. The announcement leaves the baseline and the calculation behind that percentage unspecified. It also gives no measured figures for time saved or errors reduced since the optimizer went into use.
JULIAN SOLER plans to explore automating the processing of purchase delivery notes received as PDFs, building agents that work with raw material records, and applying MyForterro.ai to other Abas ERP workflows.
Sources
- Forterro press announcement sent to ERP News, November 13, 2026
- Forterro’s JULIAN SOLER customer profile
- MyForterro.ai launch announcement
- JULIAN SOLER’s quality and R&D laboratory
- JULIAN SOLER’s company history and export markets
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