iNECTA Food: Catering

Food Software to Help You Grow Your Business

The catering industry has long been revered for its commitment to excellence and maintaining a certain standard to ensure their customers’ satisfaction. Achieving this endeavor is often challenging, when you consider the number of factors that go into sustaining a catering company. With a top-notch ERP solution, the typical challenges facing the catering industry are much more tolerable. When it comes to the catering industry, customers only see and taste the wonderful finished product done by a catering company, but we at INECTA know, whether catering on-site or cooking and catering off-premise there is a lot of moving parts that need to come together in order to make for a perfect event.

Having one system that not only gives complete insight into all of these separate processes, but also helps organize them and make suggestions to allow for more efficiency is key in gaining a competitive advantage. INECTA food does exactly that and so much more. Using the power of the Microsoft platform you can seamlessly connect the office suite to the ERP system, with no added costs for integration.

Connect All Your Departments: From Procurement to Sales

Extended Lot Management

Easily track and trace your supply chain forwards and backward in real-time.

Actual VS Estimate
Increase Lot Visibility and Usability
Lot Attributes
Minimum Expiration Date for Customer
Mass Item and/or Lot Attribute Substitution
Calculate storage costs using revaluation Journals
ELM Reports

Recipe Configurator

Create recipes through R&D and convert them to items with production BOM

Recipe Management
Nutritional Content
Images and reports
Chef View
Batch Management and UOM Conversions
Estimated vs. Actual Cost Analysis
Menu Management
Integrates with USDA's Food Data Central for nutritional information

Quality Control

Guarantee safety and quality from the farm to your customers' table

Allergen tracking
SQF / HACCP / GFSI / FSMA
Inspection plans, checklists and QC tests in the ERP system
QC tests with accepted and tolerance values
Product hold for quality check
Easy recall operation

WMS

With INECTA Food, the integrated warehouse management system will have your inventory in perfect order throughout the lifespan of the product. In addition, you can use any Android powered scan gun to automatically store product information into the INECTA Food system. With cutting-edge sorting and accountability, INECTA Food will keep your catering products in good standing order until it is shipped out of the warehousing stage and onto the buyer.

Works on RF/RFID/smart scan guns
Traceability through the warehouse
Cross-Docking
License plating
Bin management
Integration with TMS
Shipping and receiving station
Scale integration (receiving/Shipping)
Catchweight / Variable weight
Add-on 3PL
Add-on UPS, USPS, FedEx integration

Order Guide

Automate and enhance the sales order process by creating a catalog of items most frequently purchased by the costumer or items that you only allow sold to that customer. Also you can allow a sales associate to upsell a customer by allowing the order guide to suggest items based on past sales of this customer and others.

TMS

The Transportation Management functionality provides a multitude of screens and reports that provide shipment managers with planned routes and shipments on any given day, within the week of the order. Managers have the ability to pre-define routes within a city/state across multiple drop locations and assign customer orders to those planned routes. The system also allows linking of shipping agent information to the transportation orders through which the invoice can be raised for transportation expenses.

Customer Portal

The Customer and Vendor Portals are fantastic features that come with the INECTA Food solution. With the Vendor Portal, you can leverage operations like inputting your available inventory and prices and allow vendors to print out labels to place on the products before being shipped. With the Customer Portal, customers can visit the "shopping site" wherein they place orders directly. In addition, the Customer Portal automatically pulls and pushes information for your convenience.

Manufacturing

With Business Central’s premium licensing, users can leverage the manufacturing features with multi-level BOM to ensure that their product is made with care every step of the way.

With the discrete and process manufacturing features from Business Central, you can account for production orders, version management, demand projections, capacity planning, finite loading and machine centers.

Finance

Managing your finances is a snap with the aid of INECTA with a solution that is designed to service the produce industry. Keep your finances in impeccable order with Business Central powered accounting capabilities. Our industry-specific finance module offers multiple functions that elevate your business including cost accounting, fixed assets, bank account connection, and cashflow and much more.

Reporting

Elevate your business's reporting capabilities with the INECTA Food solution. With INECTA, your business's reporting is carefully handled through precise and accurate software that is unparalleled. In addition, INECTA Food offers a base package for reporting with the ability to connect to Power BI for business intelligence reporting. Stay above the curve by acquiring peak reporting capabilities with INECTA Food.

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All of our INECTA Food verticals are powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This means that you have Microsoft's premier ERP solution powering your industry-specific operations 24/7.

BC is a cutting-edge solution with a myriad of operating features via one convenient database. Business Central allows you to seamlessly access data in real time, so you know exactly where your business stands at any given time. Business Central can also evolve to fit your needs, whether that means you require less or more functionality, BC is in your corner every step of the way.