September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Food & Beverage Manufacturing: AI Visibility Ranking

ERP and production software for food and beverage manufacturers covering recipes, batch production, traceability, and compliance. Right now, Aptean is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 49 and the #1 spot in 26% of answers. Head-to-head: Aptean vs Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Food & Beverage ERP has no AI-recommended leader yet.

The top score here is 33, which is low enough that no brand has locked in a default recommendation across the three models. Aptean (two separate listings) and Wherefour both beat Infor on first-pick rate, suggesting the leader position is genuinely contested rather than settled. Gemini in particular drives dramatically different outcomes, scoring Aptean Food & Beverage ERP at only 3 while pushing Aptean the brand to 49, which tells you model-level consensus is nowhere close.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Aptean	49 ±4.6	61%	3.0	26%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #3 Gemini #1
2	Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage	33 ±6	40%	2.9	6%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #1 Gemini #7
3	Wherefour	26 ±5.8	36%	3.7	8%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #6 Gemini #2
4	Microsoft Dynamics 365	24 ±4.4	32%	3.4	3%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #4 Gemini #5
5	SAP S/4HANA	24 ±5.4	29%	2.9	17%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #2 Gemini #11
6	Deacom	17 ±5.3	28%	4.9	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #5 Gemini #4
7	Craftybase	15 ±3.2	18%	2.7	7%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #7 Gemini #10
8	Katana	14 ±5.3	22%	4.8	3%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #8
9	Oracle NetSuite	12 ±3.7	17%	3.9	1%	ChatGPT #14 Claude Gemini #3
10	SAP	9 ±4.3	11%	2.6	1%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #8 Gemini #9
11	MRPeasy	9 ±2.1	13%	4.0	4%	ChatGPT #3 Claude Gemini
12	NetSuite	7 ±3.5	14%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini #12
13	JustFood ERP	7 ±1.3	10%	3.4	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude Gemini
14	Icicle	7 ±3.8	10%	3.4	1%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #6
15	Deacom ERP	7 ±3.4	8%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude Gemini

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: BatchMaster (6), Plex (6), Katana MRP (6), Vicinity Manufacturing (5.3), SYSPRO (5). 108 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 51/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.