After signing up for Inventory Management, the first thing you will want to do is set up your recipes (or update them if you’ve already been using Nutrition Label Pro). Ingredients in the recipes become your Raw Materials and the recipes become Finished Goods. Add Preparation Instructions on each recipe’s Edit page, (these will print on the Batch Logs to help make production run smoother), and enter the case and pallet counts, which will come in handy when scheduling and planning production runs. Then, set your starting inventory levels by clicking on Raw Materials and Finished Goods from the Inventory Dashboard.
By creating a Production Plan, you can put in an estimate of how of each much finished good you’d like to make, and Nutrition Label Prowill calculate your ingredient needs, compare that to what’s on hand, AND provide a report of what is needed to meet demand. From the Production Plan tab, add the finished products you’d like to include in your plan and the desired amounts. ReciPal will add up your ingredient needs across those recipes and determine the proper ingredient purchasing plan.
When you create a production run and specify how much of a particular recipe you need to make, you’ll also get a list of how much of each ingredient in that recipe you’ll need to fulfill production
Nutrition Label Pro Inventory Management solution provides a perpetual inventory and tracks lot codes as inventory is received and used. Logging receipts of materials as they arrive adds to inventory. Closing Production Runs removes raw materials inventory and adds to Finished Goods. Subtracting Finished Goods upon shipment removes them from inventory. Every transaction is recorded. That way you always know what you have.
Your inventory is based on what you see on your Recipe Dashboard. To remove a Finished Good you can archive a recipe by clicking the orange “X” on the Recipe Dashboard. The same concept applies to Raw Materials – any ingredients that are in non-archived recipes will be part of your Raw Materials inventory.
You can still access archived recipe and edit them, they just don’t show up on your Recipe Dashboard or inventory.
