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In the food & beverage industry, what would be the ideal cost control software for an industrial catering company?

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Question added by Fadi Abdo , Cost Controller-Estimator , AL JABER CATERING SERVICES
Date Posted: 2017/06/21
gamal mogieb
by gamal mogieb , Group Financial Controller , united international Hotels Group

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Hani Osman
by Hani Osman , Director of Operations , Marka Holding

Industrial means lots of production, recipe details and trade clients, I highly recommend Fideleo system with Micros POS.

Asif Ahmad
by Asif Ahmad , Professor , PMAS-Arid Agriculture University

Catering companies have specific needs to manage food processing and distribution, which are addressed by catering software. This type of software primarily helps caterers with order management, production planning, delivery, and invoicing. Some solutions also provide features that support marketing and sales efforts. Catering software enables catering companies to plan food production according to customer demand and increase the accuracy of their deliveries. Catering software can also help with analyzing the efficiency and the quality of the services that they deliver. Here is a list of some softwares:

 

 

Gather Gather caterease CaterTrax Amadeus Sales & Event Management Amadeus Sales & Event Management (4) Read All Reviews Relative Pricing Information Unavailable Compare Spoonfed Spoonfed (3) Read All Reviews Relative Pricing Information Unavailable Compare CaterXpert CaterXpert   Total Party Planner Total Party Planner   Read All Reviews Relative Pricing Information Unavailable Compare CaterEdge CaterEdge   ReServe Cloud ReServe Cloud   ABC Event Manager ABC Event Manager   Aero-Chef Aero-Chef   Area101 Area101   Better Cater Better Cater   Read All Reviews Relative Pricing Information Unavailable Compare Cater-Flex Cater-Flex 0 reviews   Catering Tracker Catering Tracker   CaterPro for Windows CaterPro for Windows CaterShark CaterShark   CaterSOFT CaterSOFT   CaterWare CaterWare   Cost Genie Catering Pro Cost Genie Catering Pro  

Hekmat Kaboul
by Hekmat Kaboul , Purchasing Manager , Al ain palace hotel

  1. ANT   Food and Beverages Industry - Manufacturing Software System 
  2. VISUAL ACC   VISUAL ENTERPRISE.net

 

 

Role of cost accountant in the finance department of catering companies:

 

The role of cost accountant in the system of finance companies catering is the same role

 In any other companies, however different the type of activity is because the objectives of cost accounting are one and do not change with the change of activity.

 

It aims to limit the costs incurred by the company in the production process by assessing all types of costs spent on the input of each production step as a component of capital. These elements are the first to be measured and recorded in the initial (independent) cost accounting records of the entities, These data are then compared to the outputs of the production process (the actual results of profit or loss) to help the company's management measure financial performance.

 

Tracking the cost, see the prices of raw materials used and the quantities used to reach the final product and compare it with selling prices to reach the best product at the lowest cost.

 

Role of Cost Accountant:

- Pricing of sales lists - Determining the value of withdrawals - Monitoring the value of salaries and their impact on the institution - Offering different offers at suitable prices to increase the percentage of sales - Inventory control -

Defining a stock security limit - making internal periodic inventory to track waste rates, compared to sales.

 

- Role of cost accountant:

*  censorship and  Control the operating bonuses used .

* Verify storage operations correctly .

* Check that the items involved in the manufacture of meals are not stored in large quantities because they are perishable and therefore affect the cost .

 

- For costs:

Actual cost ratio = first-period inventory of purchases less inventory remaining ÷ sales

 

A food cost center is set up and then a sub-center for the food in operation / code is also prepared for each restaurant.

 

* The cost of the meal is calculated;

Calculates units of quantities of the items included in them calculated at the moving average rate eg + value of hours worked. And calculating the consumer cost of food tools: paper and plastic * Added to them also the cost of services of electricity, water and telephone maintenance.

 

The quantities required for each type of meal are provided and priced so that when a customer requests a certain meal, the pre-determined mix of quantities is disbursed.

 

Start the cost tracking steps in the restaurants from the kitchen where the chef costs the chef or the chef to calculate the quantities needed by any type of food, for example grilled meat how much amount of meat needed to work kilo grilled meat and meat type, and how much amount of onions, tomatoes and spices needed by - The accountant must know the price of each quantity given by the chef from the purchase invoices

Or from the accounts of suppliers

He can figure out the cost of kilo grilled meat, and his role is comparing costs Meals with their price.

Welword Yadao
by Welword Yadao , Line cook , Movenpick

Limit  the thing tha not nesesary in the event 

Control the food that serve with enough quantity 

mohammed nazir
by mohammed nazir , Candy Maker , papabubble caramel artesan

www.caterease.com/catering/software.

apel rivera
by apel rivera , Java Time coffee , Java Time

SAP system ideal for cost control software

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