Tracking Wastage

Tracking Wastage


Staff error, food sent back to the kitchen, expired ingredients, missing stock items, unsold inventory - there are various reasons why wastage happens. The first step to managing wastage is to know the full story.
 
Empower your staff to record how much gets wasted, who wasted what, and why it was wasted -with the Wastage Add-on. You will also instantly see the monetary equivalent of each wastage.
 
You can automatically update your stock count with each wastage and generate reports focused on wastage. In time you can get the holistic data you need to drive your own action plan to reduce wastage.
 
Enable the Wastage add-on
 
1. From the Add-ons Page in Kounta Back Office, find the Wastage add-on
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2. Enable this Add-on by clicking on the orange Enable Wastage button
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Record Wastage
 
Wastage can be recorded from both the POS and Back Office easily.
 
From POS
1. On your Kounta POS, select the menu icon on the left side of the screen.
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2. Select Add-ons
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3. Select Wastage
 
4. Fill out the product wasted, the reason, and how much was wasted
Pro Tip - If an ingredient such as flour was wasted, make sure to use the same unit of measurement as set in the Recipe Builder - if a fraction of the whole ingredient (e.g. fraction of the 1kg flour) was wasted, use decimal points.
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The reason for wastage can be selected from the following:
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5. Select Record Wastage
 
From Back Office
 
1. In the Back Office, select Sites (If you have multiple sites, you will first need to select which site.
 
2. Select Wastage
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3. Select Record Wastage
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4. Fill out the date, the product wasted, the reason, and how much was wasted.
Pro Tip - If a stock ingredient such as flour is wasted, make sure to enter just the wasted amount

Eg. 500g of a 1Kg bag, enter as a quantity of 0.5 
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5. Select Save Wastage

Track Wastage
 
Wastage can be tracked from both the POS and Back Office easily.
 
From POS
1. Head over to the Wastage page under add-ons on your POS
 
2. Select Wastage
 
3. Select Wastage History
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4. It should look like this.
Here we have two separate wastage incidents. Note that the flour was entered in decimal form to match its quantity in inventory which is 1kg. Meanwhile, croissant is entered as “1” because it is a regular product.
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From Back Office
The Back Office report on wastage is a bit more basic - it offers a tip-of-the-iceberg view of your wastage. To see more trends and to uncover the deeper root of wastage, Kounta Wastage Insights offers rich and interactive data that gets rid of the guesswork.
1. In the Back Office, select Reports (If you have multiple sites, you will first need to select which site.)
 
2. Select Wastage
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3. You can filter the results based on timeframe. The report will look like this.
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Using Kounta Insights
Better decisions every day, with Kounta Insights. Kounta Insights captures your data and puts it to work. Drilldown into the wastage data by date, by staff, by reporting group, and more. Want to reduce your wastage cost but don't know where to start? Find the answers on the Kounta Wastage Dashboard.
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