Central merchandise management
Merchandise management means you have an overview of the entire movement of goods in your restaurant.
Easy to
manage
Plan the use of merchandise in your restaurant conveniently using the digital merchandise management system.
Central administration
With merchandise management, the flow of goods is under constant control.
Supplier management
In the merchandise management system, you can store various supplier information like contact details and delivery times and then add them to your raw materials.
Central goods ordering
Thanks to the inbuilt ordering system, all orders can be compiled centrally via the merchandise management system and sent by interface or e-mail.
Goods receipt at a glance
The merchandise management system lets you book the goods receipt directly from your order. Compare quantities easily and book with just a few clicks.
Real-time stock management
With the help of stock management, you can create storage locations and store raw materials. Your stock is updated in real time.
Simplified stocktaking
Merchandise management allows you to carry out your stocktaking conveniently using stocktaking templates with a tablet or count lists.
Multi-store solution
The merchandise management system is suitable for both restaurant management and the merchandise management of franchise businesses.
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Our digital merchandise management system allows gastronomers to manage their stocks clearly and flexibly. Items listed on the menu can be saved here as recipes along with all necessary ingredients. When an item is sold in the restaurant or online, it is automatically registered in the inventory. This way, without any additional work, the inventory is always up to date and suppliers can be notified early before ingredients run out.
This term covers all movement of goods in the restaurant business. Primarily, this includes ingredients for the dishes, but also equipment for the business, kitchen utensils and work clothes for the staff. It is important that these are well and carefully maintained so that at the end of the year you can show the tax office a correctly prepared balance sheet and potentially be reimbursed for some of the expenses through your tax return.
Yes. Thanks to the intelligent cloud software, every module has a direct interface to the store system. Changes are transmitted in real time and applied to as many branches as required. Management can therefore control all processes centrally and on different end devices. Operation and application are designed to be user-friendly, so that even new staff members are quickly able to familiarise themselves with the software.
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The merchandise management system software for gastronomy
With our All-in-One Restaurant Management System, you have a complete merchandise management software at your disposal upon demand. You can enter goods receipts, view stock levels and, of course, take inventories.
The inventory templates are especially helpful in the gastronomy inventory management system. The recipes you create for your delivery service products enable you to carry out precise merchandise planning.
A well-managed inventory system saves time, money and identifies merchandise costing issues at an early stage.
Via the merchandise ordering system, you can conveniently place orders via computer or tablet and plan inventories in advance.
What is a restaurant merchandise management system?
The inventory software incorporates the management of all material goods of a business. The merchandise management system, WaWi or WWS for short, creates transparency and supports everyday business by mapping all flows of goods from receipt to sale. The system allows you to maintain all data centrally.
Once entered, the information is automatically displayed in all the relevant places: The checkout, the menu and the online ordering system for pick-up or delivery. Thanks to data capture, you have an overview of your stock, accounting, breakage, purchasing processes and the costing of your recipes at all times.
This means that all movement of goods between suppliers, warehouses and customers can be tracked. Any irregularities in the various processes can be identified and corrected more quickly.
What needs to be considered when implementing digital stock management?
In implementing a merchandise management system in gastronomy businesses, it is important that individual items (including recipes for sales products) are appropriately created in the system to provide the necessary basis for product routes.
Setup and onboarding for cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems are much easier and faster. One requirement is that the POS system, online shop and merchandise management system are compatible with each other.
What advantages does the cloud-based merchandise management system offer?
With the SIDES merchandise management system for the gastronomy sector, you have all your transactions under control, from orders to goods receipt and stocktaking:
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The merchandise management system is easy to use and can be easily integrated into your gastronomy business.
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You have an overview of all products at all times and can quickly react to potential product shortages.
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With the help of calculation in merchandise management, you can carry out precise merchandise planning.
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Automatised processes save time and costs.
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It is also ideal for franchises and can be used across multiple branches.
Why do I need a digital merchandise management system as a gastronomer?
A merchandise management system is used to keep an overview of all products in a restaurant. The cloud-based merchandise management ensures a high level of transparency, as all inventories and data are available in real time and are always up-to-date.
This enables early detection of surpluses or shortages so that gastronomers have enough time to manage them and plan costs efficiently.
Thanks to seamless interaction with the POS system and other SIDES modules, all goods used are booked in real time via the merchandise management system.
With a merchandise management system, you can also digitally record data on suppliers. For instance, supplier prices and delivery times can be automatically synchronised in the system.
This means the entire process can be tracked via the merchandise management system. In addition, automatic ordering procedures can be set to guarantee that supplies arrive in good time.