Production Planning

Accurate production planning is critical to the efficiency and profitability of your restaurant chain. To be successful, you need to source the right products and produce the right amounts to meet customer expectations while reducing over-production and out-of-stock incidents. CrunchTime!’s Production Planning module translates your sales forecasts and historical consumption patterns into reliable production plans, reducing waste and improving the accuracy of your planning. Features include:

• Demand Based Production - Increase the accuracy of production quantities by leveraging CrunchTime!’s powerful correlations between historical consumption patterns and future sales forecasts. Realize a reduction in over-production and waste while minimizing shortages and crisis situations.
• Centralized Production Rules - Create recipe scaling and substitution rules at corporate that provide a dynamic recipe book for your restaurants and ensure consistent food quality. Increase kitchen efficiencies and brand consistency by centralizing detailed production steps, plating instructions, images and prep videos through CrunchTime!’s dynamic recipe book.
• Improve Planning Accuracy - Build custom production plans for the week, day, shift, hour, or prep station based on historical consumption patterns and projected sales. Refine your plans in response to actual sales, consumption, and traffic by adjusting plans daily and intra-day. Gain production precision down to 15-minute intervals.
• Adjustment Tracking - To uncover the highest variances in theoretical food cost, begin tracking all over-production, inventory adjustments and waste of both raw ingredients as well as finished goods. CrunchTime! increases the level of accountability at each restaurant by connecting all the dots.
• Suggested Ordering - Utilize system-generated suggested ordering based on par levels, historical consumption patterns, sales forecasts and on-hand inventory levels to ensure you have the right products to meet customer expectations.