MES Provides Insight Needed in Competitive Distillery Sector The Bourbon Trail is facing tight margins and market erosion, making the insights from Parsec’s TrakSYS software particularly helpful. But the food and beverage industry overall could benefit from capabilities in OEE, track and trace, and more. May 25th, 2021 Over the past 12-15 years, the food and beverage industry has embraced the manufacturing execution system (MES) as a must-have—at least at some level—for the automated execution of orders, integrating from the enterprise resource planning (ERP) layer through to the plant floor to drive production efficiencies throughout, according to Jim Mansfield, senior manager for system integrator Matrix Technologies.