Introduction
Cinchio Back Office Inventory Management helps you keep control of your stock.
The articles linked below show you how to set up and manage products in the system, covering everything from the basics to advanced features. Alternatively, you can see all Inventory Product configuration articles Here.
Basic Product Configuration
The setup guides linked below cover your inventory product basics, from setting up Supplied Products to account for your ingredients that come through the door, to setting up Recipe Products representing your menu items sold to your customers.
Advanced Product Configuration
The setup guides linked below cover the Kitchen Production aspect of your inventory, from handling yield loss or gain when your raw ingredients are prepared, to preparing batches of your produced items.
These depend on whether or not company is using the Inventory Product Preparations feature. If you're not yet using this feature, take a look at the following guides on configuring products to account for your kitchen production:
If you are using the Product Preparations feature, instead, check out the following:
Additional Product Configuration
Sometimes a single products recipe may vary depending on the way in which it is sold, or the location where it is sold. When this happens, Recipe Adjustments may come in handy allowing you to continue using the same product but tweaking the recipe slightly under specific circumstances:
There may be some products which you don't want to track fully through Inventory Management, but there are aspects of the Inventory that you'd like to use for those products such as placing orders. This is where flagging Inventory products as overheads can help: