wInner Stock Control helps companies reduce food cost and improve efficiency resulting in higher profits and a quick return on investment. It is especially designed for use in restaurants, hotels, schools etc. and offers an easy way to manage foodservice back-office operations.
wInner Stock Control (SC) offers advanced inventory and cost control technology and is designed to adapt to changing business environments.
wInner SC is designed to streamline day-to-day business processes for ordering, receiving and inventory.
wInner SC maintains real-time information on inventory levels, recipe ingredients and costs, as well as actual versus theoretical stock reports.
By giving accurate inventory, sales and food cost variance reports, wInner SC helps you reduce your food costs and gives you total control of your business.
Merchandise & Recipes.
Merchandise forms the base of wInner SC. Merchandise is defined with properties such as name, category, tax %, stock units, storage location etc. Merchandise prices can be set or modified, and changes to the prices are reflected immediately in recipes and menu costs. Recipes are created using the merchandise list. Ingredients required can be searched and selected from this list. Integrating with wInner POS system or wInner Front Office, recipes can be linked to POS articles enabling real-time stock update based on POS sales.
Inventory Management.
wInner SC makes it easy to do actual inventory reports anytime. You can do an actual inventory of items by storeroom or outlet, and compare it to the ideal inventory based on POS activity and track down variances per item. Inventory reports create a snapshot of the inventory and are saved for later reference. This way you can consult past inventory reports for statistics and reference. Inventory variance reports will list down the products and identify variances in size and value. This enables you to pinpoint specific items in your inventory that contribute to your food cost variances. Monitoring item transactions as well as controlling wastage and spoilage becomes a snap and food costs can be reduced. The actual stock take can be entered in a very user-friendly grid type screen.
Suppliers.
Supplier data is kept in the centralised Address Book which is integrated throughout all wInner products. wInner SC can track an unlimited number of suppliers with full details. Each transaction for suppliers is recorded so it becomes easy to compare prices, or price patterns. Purchase orders, deliveries and invoices can be recorded with the supplier, and history of orders can be stored indefinitely. Purchase history enables you to compare different vendors and their prices so you can easily find the lowest price vendor.
Stores & Outlets.
For hotels and other businesses with multiple storage facilities, you need to do requisitions and transfer products between stores, kitchens, bars and other storage locations. wInner SC enables you to create multiple storage locations, and makes it very easy to manage mutations and transfers between stores. You can track inventory transactions and print out inventory status and variance reports per store or outlet. For hotels, you are able to keep track of actual and ideal food costs for each restaurant outlet.
Purchase Orders & Requisitions.
Purchase orders can easily be created from requisitions, making the purchasing manager’s work very simple. Requisitions can be generated automatically based on minimum stock levels, or based on POS sales activities. Purchase orders can be created with different status modes, and can be saved for later processing. Once an order is finalised, it can be printed and sent to the supplier. The receiving department has access to all purchase orders sent, so they can easily compare them when deliveries arrive. When deliveries vary, modifications can be added to the order to reflect the actual delivery of goods. Upon delivery, the delivery note number or code can be added to the order, and upon receipt of the invoice, the invoice information is added as well. When making the requisition or purchase orders, the current stock on hand is displayed for every item, so you can find out if the item is below par stock level or not. You can see additional information about each product, such as default order quantity, quantity of last order etc, to help improve accuracy during ordering.
Receiving.
wInner SC makes it easy for you to record product deliveries. Rather than keying in each delivered item, delivery receipts are matched with purchase orders for price and quantity verification. Histories of deliveries are kept and saved for immediate comparison and future control of invoices. By comparing orders with deliveries, you can instantly spot errors on quantities, quality and prices that would otherwise fall in the favor of the vendor. This goes a long way in reducing your operation’s food costs. Just imagine how much you can lose over the course of a year without proper receiving and purchasing management.
Integration.
wInner SC combines sales volume data with your stock activity. POS articles are linked to Recipes or merchandise, and stock levels are updated in real-time. In other words, stock is deducted automatically the moment the waiter posts the article in the POS system. This integration enables you to focus on trends and decide which of your menu items need to be maintained, modified, promoted or replaced.