SpeedLine Inventory, an optional, separately purchased component of Store Manager, tracks the stock items you use in your restaurant. This enables you to see areas of excessive actual usage [Actual usage is determined by conducting physical counts. It is a measure of the stock items that you actually used in the previous Inventory period, usually one week.], helping you get food costs under stricter control.
Menu Designer and Terminal work together with Store Manager to produce inventory data. (See the Menu Designer Help.) In Menu Designer, you define all your menu items, modifiers, recipes, and weights. In Terminal, you use the menu file and enter sales. Store Manager then imports the ideal usage calculation from those sales and uses recipe information from Menu Designer to tell you what your stock levels should be, that is, Ideal Usage [Ideal Usage is a measure of the stock items you expect to use to make menu items for customers. This estimate is based upon the sales information from Terminal combined with the recipe information from Menu Designer.].
Use Store Manager Inventory to produce a variety of reports and customized purchase orders, manage your suppliers and receives, and track transfers, adjustments and counts.
Using Inventory takes as little as 30 minutes a week. Investing this time will allow you to print the following reports:
•Stock Item Definitions
•Suppliers
•Purchase Order Summary
•Purchase Order
•Count List
•Negative Stock
•Receipt Summary
•Stock Valuation
•Usage Variance
•Transaction Details
•Batch Summary
•Product Margin
These Inventory reports, including the Count List, Stock Item Definitions, Batch Summary, Suppliers, and others, are useful tools that will help you manage your stock and your operation in general, particularly from an accounting perspective.
However, the Usage Variance report goes further. Inventory compares your sales and your expected usage and can tell you when you are using more of a stock item than you should be for your sales.
Which of your menu items are the most profitable? Find out quickly with the Product Margin report. This report shows the profit margin on items in the categories you specify, based on the cost of ingredients and item pricing for each menu item.
