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Optimize your food inventory management with food inventory software to track perishables, create recipes, and minimize waste through smart reordering
For innovators in the food and beverage industry, getting the balance right can be a challenge. As you scale from your own kitchen to a larger operation, it becomes all the more crucial to find a tracking solution to track food that is for preparation or sale, ensure the products are consistently prepared well, and avoid as much waste as possible.
This is where food and beverage inventory control software steps in. Katana can operate as a primary food inventory control software, but there’s so much more you can achieve within our platform. From monitoring stock levels to creating detailed product recipes to integrating with sales and accounting tools, and finally to waste tracking for stock or products that expire — it’s all possible with the features we offer.
You can use barcode scanning in your warehouse to track stocking levels and shipped orders, use integrations to create inventory reports, and ultimately decrease the daily time spent on admin-related tasks that Katana makes easy.
Sales integration, quality control, and delivery tracking help meet customer expectations
As mentioned above, along with being an ideal food manufacturing software, there are a wealth of sales and accounting integrations within Katana, and ways to make them work for your food business. Amongst the most basic accounting options are QuickBooks Online and Xero, both widely used and popular with businesses from many industries including food production and sales.
Along with financial and accounting advantages, our product recipes can assist with consistency in product quality, helping to maintain high food standards. This is also relevant in case you’re both in food production and the restaurant industry, maybe even a restaurant owner, as repeat business and customer loyalty are crucial.
There are also ways to create POS integrations, allowing for card payment processing, so you aren’t only selling products online but in a physical location too. Perhaps even multiple locations if you’re expanding rapidly!
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Katana is a very user-friendly and easy-to-use system, particularly considering the struggles that we had before. Even more, I appreciate the communication offered when they develop new tools, they are open to feedback and take our improvements into account.
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Food manufacturing, 15+ employees
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Managing inventory in the food industry is crucial to ensure the efficient operation of your business while minimizing waste and ensuring food safety. Here are the key steps and strategies for effective inventory management in the food industry:
- Categorize inventory — Separate your food inventory into categories, such as perishable and non-perishable items, to make management easier for yourself and the team.
- Set par levels — Establish minimum and maximum stock levels to prevent overstocking and shortages while optimizing your storage capacity.
- FIFO (First-In, First-Out) — Prioritize the use of older food items to minimize spoilage and waste.
- Regular audits — Make a habit of physical inventory audits to ensure accurate records and reduce discrepancies.
- Vendor relationships — Develop strong relationships with suppliers for reliable and timely deliveries, and negotiate favorable terms.
- Food inventory software — Invest in suitable software to monitor inventory, generate purchase orders, and provide real-time stock data.
- Safety stock — Maintain a reserve of essential items and ingredients to be prepared for unexpected demand fluctuations and delivery delays.
In the food and beverage industry, excellent inventory software can be the difference between survival and failure. Knowing what you have in stock, when it will expire, what needs to be made, and what’s in demand all factors into the decisions you’ll make as a business.
Knowing food costs and expiry times, combined with sales forecasts, will assist in setting smart reorder points and automating transactions so you’re never out of crucial ingredients.
Katana offers these options as a food inventory management software, and more, as you gain total control over your food inventory from day one.
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Using our integration with Shopify, you can link a point of sale system within a physical or pop-up store with your inventory software.
This puts all of your critical data into one place, and means your stock, products, and sales will be aligned, so you can make inventory reports and plan ahead for which products to make more of and which to cut back on.