What Can Crunchtime Inventory Do?

The Dashboard allows managers to see up-to-date information concerning the location's operations. Users will see the Dashboard immediately after logging in. Store-level application users will see information for their own location. For application users linked to an hierarchy level designated for “Consolidated Dashboard” access, the application will display consolidated information for all of the locations linked to the user’s hierarchy.  ~  more details.

Create Commissary Order is used at the ordering location to order products and recipe items from a commissary or other supply location within the company. Use Recent Commissary Orders to View, Edit, Cancel, or Reconcile a commissary order or reprint a commissary order document.  ~  more details.

Use Create Vendor Order to order products from any vendor that has submitted bids or established contracts with the corporate office. These orders can be submitted to the vendors electronically, and are reconciled upon delivery to add the products to inventory and update product prices. Use Recent Vendor Orders to View, Edit, Cancel, or Reconcile a vendor order or reprint a vendor order document.  ~  more details.

Use Create Purchase by Invoice to enter invoice values for expenses that are not associated with product orders. Purchase by invoice lets you track expenses — such as monthly cleaning charges — and associate these with categories and General Ledger accounts. Purchase by invoice transactions do not add products to inventory. Use Recent Purchase by Invoices to View, Edit, or Cancel a purchase by invoice or reprint an invoice document.  ~  more details.

Use Create Master Order to create one order for all contracted products rather than creating an individual order to each contracted vendor. A master order is automatically divided into separate vendor orders, and these orders are submitted, edited and reconciled in the same way as any other vendor order.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to create and save messages to be printed on purchase orders as they are submitted.  ~  more details.

Use the Vendor Returns screen to create and reconcile product returns in one efficient transaction. When a return is created and reconciled, the return quantity for each product in the transaction is subtracted from inventory.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to enter information about the vendors that supply products to a location.  ~  more details.

Net-Chef’s Inventory screens provide the ability to schedule counts, print count sheets and easy-to-use screens for entering and reviewing counts. Counts can be entered manually or automatically using the "By Exception" feature, which updates quantities based on the closing methods set up for each product type and storage location.  ~  more details.

Use the Location Transfers screens to move inventory from one store location to another or between storage locations or internal customers.  ~  more details.

Use Create Inventory Adjustment to enter product quantities that need to be subtracted from the inventory of a storage location due to, for example, breakage or food spoilage. Use Create Recipe Adjustment to discard (deplete) the waste for component products of recipes that are produced on site but are not produced via the Production module, and therefore don’t exist as inventory items. For companies that use the Average Cost accounting method, Value Adjustments can be used to update a product's Issue Cost and Inventory Cost. View Recent Adjustments can be used to View an adjustment transaction or reprint an adjustment document.  ~  more details.

Use the Inventory Setup screen to arrange products on the Count Sheet and Date Entry screens according to their positions within their storage locations, as well as to define or edit the Alternate Units available for counting .  ~  more details.

The Location Products screen allows authorized users to update a product’s ordering status, set the location's Min and Max Par levels, and reactivate inactive products.  ~  more details.

The Sales Transactions screens can be used to enter or review register readings and other sales information on a daily basis. Net-Chef will calculate totals and provide reports about the location’s sales activity.  ~  more details.

The Safe Log screen allow users to manage the movement of cash within their store so that they can make sure they always have enough petty cash to make change, and so they can track for loss prevention.  ~  more details.

The Customer Order screens are used to allow locations to issue products and recipe items to external customers or to other locations within the company.    ~  more details.

Use the Manage Sales Forecasts screen to enter forecasted sales, guest counts and check counts for each period.  ~  more details.

Use the Daily Prep module at a restaurant kitchen to record the production of recipe items in a single screen. Users can immediately update inventory with changes to the component and recipe quantities based on the actual prep tasks completed throughout the day.  ~  more details.

Use the Menu Planner screen to display the menus linked to the current location in Enterprise Manager Web and to see which recipes have been linked to which dayparts on a menu. Users can enter Projected Consumption values for each recipe/daypart.  ~  more details.

Use the Buffet Consumption module to record the consumption of finished prep recipes in environments where they are not depleted through Menu Mix sales, Commissary Orders or Customer Orders.  ~  more details.

Use the Labor Summary screen to view the daily actual labor data imported from the Point-of-Sale system (or enter it manually) and to view store-level labor reports.  ~  more details.

These screens allows managers to enter and maintain each employee’s personal information (i.e. phone number, address, marital status, etc.) for reference and reporting purposes. Employee records can be used to create labor schedules, export payroll data, and maintain employee data in 3rd party systems.  ~  more details.

Use the Staffing Level Templates screen to create scheduling templates in which the number of employees who should be scheduled at each position can be defined based on the level of sales that have been forecast for the relevant part of the labor schedule day.  ~  more details.

Use the Stations screen to define a list of labor stations.  ~  more details.

Use the Positions screen to link stations to positions and to assign employees to positions based on priority.  ~  more details.

The Reports menu (and the Reports section under each topical menu) includes a variety of reports that allow store managers to view and analyze information about each location’s purchases, register and catering sales, inventory totals, labor and employee data, and prep transactions. Consolidated Reports are also available to retrieve data for multiple locations, based on the company’s hierarchy configuration.  ~  more details.

Use the posting screens to close out the current period, or to re-open a posted period if necessary.  ~  more details.

Net-Chef lets users save documents into Net-Chef for other users within the company to access. Once the document has been uploaded successfully, any company employee with access to Net-Chef can view and print the document.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to post messages so that they appear on the log in screen for Net-Chef users to see, either at the current location or all locations.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to prepare budgets for each post period at each location. Budget figures are used in the Profit and Loss report, which compares actual sales and costs to what was budgeted.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to determine when and how Recommended Order quantities will be calculated for use as a reference when purchasing. This calculation can be based on such factors as the quantity on hand, the quantity on order, and historical usage quantities.  ~  more details.

Use this screen to create product templates for use as customized filters when creating a master order, vendor order or commissary order.  Frequently-ordered products or products that are usually ordered together can be added to templates along with default order quantities, thus increasing the efficiency of the ordering process. Templates can also be used to filter the Location Transfer and Inventory screens and to schedule inventory counts.  ~  more details.

This screen allows authorized Net-Chef users to change the password they use when logging in.  ~  more details.

This screen allows authorized Net-Chef users to change some of their own application user settings related to Dashboard e-mail alerts.  ~  more details.