Restaurant Supply Chain Management

CrunchTime!’s Enterprise Solution seamlessly links and optimizes every segment of your supply chain by connecting your inventory, sales forecasting, production planning, menu engineering efforts and commissary on one unified platform. The solution balances your supply and demand variables, ensuring that you get the right product at the right time from the right vendor at the right price. Moreover, CrunchTime!’s real-time dashboards, alerts and configurable reports highlight cost saving opportunities and allow for quick reactions to supply chain volatilities. Features include:

• Centralized Order Guides - Control your vendors, products and prices through central order guide management to eliminate unapproved spend and ensure brand consistency. Maximize your buying power by centrally managing all bids, prices and contracts with electronic “apples-to-apples” vendor bid comparison to ensure you’re getting the best price
• Vendor Management - Increase procure-to-pay cycle and reduce administrative overhead by driving all your vendors to a central collaboration portal to self-manage their order guides, payments and credits. Create scorecards to measure fill ratios, quality of service, product quality, and contract price compliance.
• Restaurant Food Safety - Protect your restaurants from food safety hazards with Manufacturer Lot Tracking, HACCP compliance, and unit-level feedback on product spec alignment and supplier service levels. CrunchTime! allows you to track every movement in your supply chain – from procurement to the customer meal.
• Allergens and Nutritional Information - Comply with nutrition laws and protect your guests by providing accurate allergen content and nutritional information labeling. Associate ingredients with the USDA Database or your custom nutritionals for instant access to caloric, nutritional and allergen information
• Sales Forecasts - Forecast sales dollars, inventory levels, guest traffic, order quantities and production needs based on historical consumption patterns, seasonality, special promotions, and current on-hand levels. Reduce over and under production incidents.
• Contract Compliance - Eliminate supplier overcharges through automated alerts and credit recovery.
• Perpetual Inventory Management - Cut costs by maintaining optimal inventory levels – reduce excess inventory waste while avoiding out of stock incidents. The 100% web-based solution allows for real-time tracking of all items – from ordering to depletion at the restaurants.
• Commissary Management - Equip your commissary with comprehensive and real-time visibility to restaurant demand and consumption, aggregate production requirements, and the ability to manage distribution and invoicing by restaurant.
• Recipe Management - Centrally create and manage all recipes and menus. By centrally defining your recipes, production methods, products, and allowed substitutes, you can ensure consistent food quality and a superior customer experience across your restaurants.
• Menu Engineering - Analyze customer demand, item percentage sales contributions, costs and profit margins that allow you to engineer more profitable menus. Launch more effective campaigns by understanding the true plate costs of a new recipe, LTO or promotion – prior to rollout.
• Normalize Units of Measure - Eliminate confusion by using configurable units of measure to normalize products across vendors, store locations and recipes.
• Suggested Order - Simplify ordering at the store-level with system-generated suggested ordering based on configurable par levels, historical consumption patterns, sales forecasts and on-hand inventory levels.
• Electronic Integration - Save time with end-to-end electronic integration to suppliers, including ordering, electronic invoice processing, and vendor order guide imports.
• Task Completion - The system-generated task reminders ensure that your employees are accountable and completing tasks on-time, including ordering, receiving, and inventory counts. Monitor the completion of tasks in real-time.