EatecNetX for Hotels, Resorts and Casinos
Hotels, resorts, casinos. Complex food and beverage operations. Multiple outlets, centralized purchasing, various inventory locations including wine collections and gift shops. Multiple kitchens, commissary, butchery. Buffets, room service, complementary breakfasts, banquets. Requisitions and transfers. Interdepartmental charges.
The challenge? How to ensure maximum productivity and profitability.
The solution? EatecNetX
| Forecasts |
- Create sales forecasts easily with historical sales data
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| Online Requisitions and Transfers |
- Use templates and forecasts to create requisitions and transfers
- Direct issues and steward sales
- Approval levels
- Activity automatically updates departmental accounting
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| Paperless Purchasing and Receiving |
- Purchase orders based on outlet forecasts, requisitions, PAR levels and BEO requirements
- Process purchase orders through EDI and e-procurement interfaces
- Automatically select lowest bid or prioritize vendor selection
- Leave partially delivered purchase orders on back order
- Receive and add non-invoiced items to inventory
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| Inventory Management |
- Print bar code labels
- Utilize wireless Pocket-PCs for physical counts and transfers
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| Production |
- Create production worksheets
- Produce and transfer finished goods from bakery, butchery, etc.
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| Sales Tracking and Analysis |
- Track revenue and costs
- Generate profit analysis by revenue center (e.g. restaurants)
- Menu engineering
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| Retail |
- Manage retail merchandise, purchasing, inventory, and POS interface
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| Catering |
- Create banquet event orders, invoices, contracts and letters
- Build Prix Fixe or A La Carte Menus
- Accounts receivable
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| Multiple Interfaces |
- Accounts payable, accounts receivable and general ledger exports
- Point-of-sale
- EDI and e-procurement
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Additional Capabilities for Multi-Site Companies
Your multi-site company faces unique challenges. Many of your most essential functions are performed from a central location, from negotiating vendor quotes to issuing purchase orders. And, products are often used from a common warehouse.
EatecNetX takes enterprise foodservice management to a higher level.
Our unique solution employs a single, centralized database, accessible online, from each property over a company Intranet or the Internet real-time. No remote systems to maintain. No uploading, downloading or replicating of data.
Additional capabilities for multi-site companies include:
Vendor Bidding |
- Bid negotiation based on bulk buying trends of all sites
- Maintenance of regional bids
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| Purchasing |
- The option to issue purchase orders centrally, while others emanate directly from each property
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| Warehouse |
- Off-site warehouse management, with the ability for online requisitions
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| Inter-Site Transfers |
- Inter-site requisitions and transfers, which automatically update inter-company account codes
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| Reporting |
- Access to a full range of operational and financial reports, which are easily generated for each property and region and can be consolidated at any level
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| Concentrated Resource and Access |
- By not having to install and support software at each site, IT expertise can be concentrated in one place and shared among multiple properties
- Users can be limited, via passwords, to site-specific data
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EatecNetX for Cruise Lines
Cruise ships are equivalent to floating hotels, so many features pertinent to the hotel market segment also apply here. However, there are additional considerations:
- A ship may order directly from a vendor, often in another country. But it is more likely that a market list will be sent to a central purchasing office, from which the purchase order is issued.
- Based on when and where a ship docks for replenishment, there may be extensive lead times when placing orders, and foreign currency is a factor.
- To minimize the number of shipping containers contracted for, it is desirable to know the weight and volume of the ordered products, by type of container: frozen, refrigerated, and dry storage.
- Eating habits of passengers may vary, by cruise, depending upon their origin. For example, cruises with a large Midwest-originating clientele will consume more beef; in contrast, California residents typically demand more seafood. On-board food service consists of buffet dining, as well as a la carte consumption.
- Liquor sales are typically recorded on a point-of-sale in the bar. Dining rooms operations rarely involve a point-of-sale.
In this environment, an EatecNetX system can either be installed on each ship, or if reliable ship-to-shore communication exists, as an enterprise solution. In either scenario, EatecNetX accommodates the flow of work: creation of forecasts and/or models, based on the types of passengers on board; generation of market lists that are sent to the purchasing office; issuance of purchase orders, with a duplicate copy sent to the ship to receive against; and export of accounts payable files to the financial system, based upon receipt of merchandise.
EatecNetX meets the needs of the cruise ship industry through:
- Suppliers and bids, by region
- Forecasts, by cruise, to drive purchasing and production requirements
- Currency conversions, to facilitate purchasing in multiple countries
- Volume & weight of purchase order items, by type of container, to facilitate container configuration
- Pack size reconciliation, ordered versus received
- Buffet management
- Reports by cruise
- Food costs versus per passenger budgets
To receive more information on our products please email us at sales@eatec.com
or call 510-594-9011 ext #2 to speak with a representative in your area.
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