About
About us
Gastrologic came out of a warehouse, not off a drawing board.
How Gastrologic came about
The first version of Gastrologic was built for an Austrian food wholesaler, during normal trading, between the loading bay, the cold store and the office. Not as a pilot project alongside the day job, but as a tool that had to work the next morning, because the deliveries were coming either way.
That set the way of working we have kept. Every function answers a question somebody in the warehouse actually asked. What nobody needs does not get built, however well it would look on a slide.
Today Gastrologic is aimed at food wholesalers, gastro suppliers, doner and meat producers and distributors – with a focus on Austria, Germany, Türkiye and Slovenia – who have run their warehouse on experience, notes and spreadsheets and have reached the limit of it.
A small team
The team is small and is meant to stay small. The people who write the software also set it up and train your staff. There is no chain of sales, project office and development for a question from the warehouse to travel through first.
That cuts both ways. You speak to someone who knows why something works the way it does and who can change it. In return, we take on only as many rollouts at a time as we can see through properly.
Support is available in German, English and Turkish. In this industry three languages often work side by side in the same hall, and the person holding the terminal is rarely the person who signs the contract.
Why Europe
Your data sits on servers inside the European Union. That is not a marketing line, it is the condition under which many businesses in this industry will listen at all.
Traceability is not a side topic here. EU Regulation 178/2002 requires a business to be able to say, for every food item, where it came from and where it went. In practice that is not decided at the annual audit but every day at the loading bay: whether batch and best-before date are captured at goods receipt or not.
Gastrologic is built so that these details arise in the normal course of work. Nobody should be updating lists in the evening so that the records add up. If traceability is extra work, it gets dropped sooner or later, and that is exactly when it is missing.
What we hold ourselves to
Four points we handle the same way in every project.
- We say what will not work. If Gastrologic is the wrong route for your business, you hear that in the first conversation and not after the third change request.
- Your data belongs to you. You can have it exported in full at any time, including when you decide against us.
- We do not promise numbers we cannot back up. What a system does for your business is shown by the PoC, with your own articles and stock.
- Rollout happens in steps. One storage area, one workflow, then the next. A business that has to deliver every morning cannot switch everything over on a Monday.
Get to know us in the warehouse
The most honest way to judge us is a PoC: 7 days with your own articles and stock, set up by the same people who wrote the software. After that you know whether it fits.