Food Production and Planning

Just the right ingredients
Having just the right ingredients prepared at exactly the right time to meet customer demand is critical to customer satisfaction and cost control. But, like most management responsibilities, that’s easier said than done.

Recipe Planner
Matching ingredient levels to food recipes and forecasted traffic is crucial to maximizing service while minimizing spoilage and waste

To maximize revenue potential, efficiency and customer service, you need to know precisely what and how much to prepare, when to prepare it and how long it will take, and how much labor to schedule for these tasks. You’ll also need to consider things like freshness, portion control, and waste. Not so simple, really.

RedPrairie’s Food Production and Planning capabilities turn this complex challenge into a simple, easy to manage process. The system:

• forecasts item-level demand down to 15-minute intervals based on sales history and POS data for each site, ensuring quality and freshness
• computes ingredient requirements based on this demand and your recipes, reducing spoilage and waste by 15-40 percent
• plans and schedules labor for initial production and build-to-order needs based on each site’s menu, traffic, and labor standards and constraints
• immediately updates inventory levels based on sales and waste
• measures invoiced versus contracted food costs to highlight areas of variance for further investigation
• delivers real-time reports to wireless handheld devices, allowing managers to quickly identify problems and take corrective action

RedPrairie’s Food Production and Planning has just the right ingredients to enable you to improve customer satisfaction, and therefore increase revenue, while reducing production and inventory costs. It’s quite simple, really.