Recipe and Specification Management
- Calculate your product and base mix costs
- Quickly
- Easily
- Accurately
Fully integrated with production control and ingredients, this feature- rich module holds the key to measuring profitability and thus business success.
- Easy on-line cost estimates – all in one, easy-to- use program.
- Comprehensive recipe costing and formulation allowing unlimited breakdown into unlimited sub mixes with unlimited interim stages.
- Multiple stages, with stage notes and manufacturing instructions
- Detailed mix requirements showing ingredient breakdown
- Calculate weight and suggested price, allowing for yield and losses
- Enter ingredients, packaging, labour and overheads
- Mark-ups can be set against the entire recipe, ingredient analysis groups or against the individual recipe line item.
- Analysis can be shown against the recipe stage or against the whole product.
- All recipe modifications e.g. ingredient price change are stored historically so that trends or comparisons can be reported on
- Graphical view of recipes
- ‘Where-used’ facility - find recipes by ingredient and find products by base mix
- Health and Safety – record Allergy Groups, Traffic Light Groups and Additive Groups
- Recipe optimized to mix/bowl size, for use on mix preparation sheet
- Automatic update of recipe costs when ingredient cost change
- Version controlled by date – old recipes are held indefinitely for future reference
Product Specifications
- Full specification report and case label
- Ingredient declaration formatted to official guidelines
- Additives, allergens, nutritional values, product suitability, certification and packaging information
- Additive "where used"
- Certification renewal reminders

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