Inventory Control – How does it Work?

Recipe Manager handles food product and ingredient inventory in extreme detail. When inventory levels fall below set values (call a PAR), you can configure Recipe Manager to automatically notify you of the specific items which are low and generate purchase orders to replinish stock quickly. Recipe Manager has a very detailed purchase order utility built in that is fully customizable to fit the needs of your business. Recipe Manager can even interface with any ERP or external purchasing system as well to generate these orders for you when stock is marked low.

Sales of products are also tracked in Recipe Manager. These sales values can be automatically pulled from any number of popular point-of-sale packages including MICROS, POSitouch, Digital Dining, EnterprisePOS, etc. Vydata Systems can even bundle EnterprisePOS with your Recipe Manager package into 1 complete Enterprise system!

Recipe Manager tracks the exact amount of product you prepare for any given day automatically via the Menu Writer product. Your chef simply references a production menu for a given time period (shift, day, week, etc.) and initiates a batch (called a “production run”) which prepares all recipes for that period. All recipes are then scaled (prepped) accordingly and inventory is deducted. 

The Menu Writer Tool – The Interface Key

The Menu Writer tool in Recipe Manager allows the user to build custom menus and control the amount prepared of each assigned product (recipe) for any given time period. This tool bridges the gap between the raw recipe data and actual product for consumption. This tool can be configured to interface to a POS system to pull sales forecast information for calculation of the exact amount to prepare of each menu item in order to maximize supply to meet demand while minimizing waste.

When stock falls below the set par levels once menu products are prepared, a notification is sent to generate a Purchase Order.

A manual notification can be created to generate a purchase order as well right from an inventory item when the user notices an item may be getting a little too close to par.