Hotel editions. On Reservation ERP (Gold) this module is called Precision Cooking and this screen is the Precision Cooking Report. Everything below works the same way.
Two views of the same period: what production consumed and what it produced. Use the toggle at the top to switch between them.
Only completed runs appear. A run still in Draft or Released has not moved any stock, so it has genuinely consumed and produced nothing — if a batch is missing from this report, that is almost always why.
Before you start
- Set the period with the date picker. It defaults to the last month.
- Both views cost everything at what the run itself was costed at, not at today's prices. That is deliberate: it is the figure your accounts were posted with.
Finished goods
One row per product per output type, so a recipe that yields a main product and a sellable by-product shows both, labelled.
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Quantity | How much was produced across every run in the period |
| Unit cost | Total value divided by quantity — what one unit of this actually cost to make |
| Value | The share of production cost this product carried |
| Avg waste | Average shortfall against the recipe across those runs |
| Runs | How many separate production runs contributed |
Below the table, cost-only outputs are listed separately — waste, abnormal loss, non-sellable by-products. They carry value but no quantity, so they cannot sit in the table above without either hiding their cost or inventing a unit for it. The final total is the whole production cost for the period: stocked value plus these.
Raw materials
One row per raw material consumed.
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Quantity | How much was consumed across the period |
| Avg rate | Value divided by quantity — the average cost per unit over this period, which is not the same as the item's average cost today |
| Value | What that consumption cost |
| Runs | How many runs used this material |
Reading the two together
The raw-material total plus any production expenses should equal the finished-goods total, because every unit of production cost is allocated to an output. If they differ, something has been recorded outside a production run — a manual stock adjustment on a raw material, most often.
Tips
- Unit cost is the number to watch. A product whose unit cost drifts up between periods is usually telling you either a raw material has got more expensive or your yield has slipped. The Avg waste column tells you which.
- Export to Excel or CSV to compare periods side by side; the report itself shows one period at a time on purpose.
Common problems
- A batch is missing → its run is probably not completed yet. Open Manufacturing → Production Runs and check its status.
- The two views do not reconcile → look for stock movements on those items that did not come from a production run: inventory adjustments, transfers, or BOM-less consumption entered through Consume Raw Materials.
- Avg waste is blank → no run in the period recorded a yield different from its recipe, or the products were made before yield tracking existed.
- Unit cost looks far too high on a small batch → check the cost-only section. A large abnormal loss on one run is carried by that run's good units unless it was recorded as a cost-only output on the recipe.