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Customers utilizing Recipe Cost Calculator typically report a savings of 10% on raw materials costs and a 35% reduction in time spent on costing activities. This regularly results in a savings of hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of dollars per month.

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Production Planning

One of our most powerful tools for all types of food businesses including restaurants, bakeries, catering, manufacturing. Use our planning tools to dynamically scale recipes and for:

  • Menu planning / engineering for restaurants
  • Planning events menus for catering
  • Forecasting COGS related to sales estimates
  • Planning production runs in small scale food production
  • Generating shopping lists / raw materials requirements for specific menus or production runs

Create plans, events, menus and get instant access to cost of goods (COGS)
Instantly generate a shopping list, optionally linked to inventory to see what you need, what you have on hand and what the overall COGS are
Owner Benefit

Optimize Your Costs and Efficiency: With our production planning features, you can gain a solid understanding of your Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), ensuring you're always on top of your margins. By accurately forecasting precise raw material requirements, you can avoid overproduction and underproduction, leading to significant cost savings and more efficient use of resources. This foresight helps in reducing waste and optimizing your inventory levels, directly impacting your bottom line in a positive way.

Customer Benefit

Streamline Your Operations: Integrating these planning tools with your inventory management system allows for a seamless operation. You can automatically update inventory levels as production plans are executed, ensuring your stock levels are always accurate. This level of integration reduces manual tracking and data entry errors, freeing up your time to focus on other aspects of your business that require your attention.

Top Level
Food Costing Staff Training Nutrition Labels Production Planning Inventory Management Food Traceability
Recipes
Shopping Lists Sub-Recipes Recipe Scaling Preparation Methods Auto-Sum Gross Weights Profitability Warnings Print and PDF Export Recipe Images Recipe Categories Pricing Tools for Manufacturers
Ingredients
Ingredient Price History Ingredient Waste Percentages Multiple Suppliers for Ingredients Ingredient Categories Measurement Converters Price Confirmation Reminders Costs by Category Allergen Tagging Import Ingredients From Excel
General
Custom Currency Symbols Multiple Users Export to Excel Recipe Privacy Backups
Inventory
Purchase Orders Raw Materials and Finished Goods Storage Areas Inventory Velocity Set Ingredient Par Levels
Food Traceability
Raw Materials Lot Tracing Finished Goods Lot Tracing FIFO Ingredient Tracking
Our Mission

We want to build the best software tools for small and medium food businesses of all types. Whether you are a manufacturer, restaurant, bakery, caterer or otherwise -- we provide powerful tools for recipe costing, production planning, inventory management, nutrition and more.

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