The success of restaurants in general depends on a basic set of factors, the most important of which is successful management based on data and reports, and this is what you achieve by using a professional restaurant program.

An integrated restaurant program that includes sales management, marketing management for the restaurant, the food and services it provides to customers, creating offers to attract more customers, and creating communication channels to gain their trust and loyalty. In addition to managing the inventory of all restaurant items and tracking them and verifying the expiration date of each item, reviewing the status of items entering and exiting, and many, many other systems and tasks that you can manage successfully and efficiently by using professional digital restaurant programs.

In this article, we will explain the inventory management and sales management systems through the restaurant program.

Inventory management through a restaurant program
Inventory management is one of the important departments that includes many tasks and processes to implement and track in order to maintain the condition of the products in a sound manner. By using professional restaurant software tools to manage your restaurant efficiently, you will be able to get many advantages to grow your business, the most important of which are the following:

Creating a database
The restaurant contains many different products, so it is important to record them in an organized manner for easy recall to deliver them to restaurants or to conduct inventory and review operations, and through an integrated restaurant program, you will be able to classify all your products in a file for each product containing the product name, expiration date for food products, number, and any other data related to each product.

Creating a barcode
You can create a barcode for each item for easy recall in the program for review or to record delivery and receipt operations between the warehouse and the restaurant and create electronic warehouse receipts easily and attach them to the delivery operations.

Linking warehouses

Some restaurants may have more than one branch and therefore may have more than one warehouse, and to facilitate the tracking and review process, you can, through a professional restaurant program, link the main warehouse and the sub-warehouses and link all transactions to each other through electronic automation that helps the work flow easily and quickly.

Create alerts
The ability to set alert notifications when the stock of any of the items in the warehouse is about to run out to start ordering them from suppliers so that the restaurant's work does not stop.

Link with sales
Through the integrated restaurant program, you will be able to easily link with the sales department, so that you can compare the actual number of inventory with the number delivered to restaurants and compare it with the sales operations for your various orders. You will be able to determine your profit margins and waste and determine the quantities you need of each item to improve your warehouse management.

Continuous inventory of inventory
Through the restaurant program, you will be able to review your inventory and conduct various inventory operations, whether it is a general inventory of all items at the end of each month, or an inventory for a specific period of time. You can also apply this process to all your warehouses in the event that there is more than one warehouse easily and through the program to obtain more accurate and effective data.

Issuing reports
Reports are the main tool that restaurant owners rely on to know all business conditions, and by managing the issuance of reports in the restaurant program, you will be able to easily obtain all inventory reports such as inventory reports of different durations and item movement reports to determine the most consumed and sold items, performance evaluation reports for warehouse workers, and any other reports related to warehouse work management.

Sales management system in the restaurant program
Control the management of your restaurant's sales and all operations that take place to enable you to develop your various services to achieve profits by using the sales management system of the restaurant program you use. Any professional restaurant program includes a number of tools that help develop the work and improve your sales, and these advantages include the following:

Employee management
Successful sales management lies in starting to organize the work of employees, which is provided by an integrated professional restaurant program, through which you will be able to assign an account to each employee and define their workflow tasks and track them at any time and review them to enable you to evaluate the performance of each employee, while monitoring their specified work hours.

Point of Sale Management
By using the point of sale system, you will be able to control all customer payments, whether cash or bank card payments, in addition to a receipt printer for what was paid to deliver to customers. These operations are linked to the financial management to record all operations at the same time so that your various operations are completed without the need to waste a lot of time.

Customizing sales offers
Through the restaurant program, you will be able to track your customers' orders and learn about their favorite meals through the registration related to customer data. It also helps you customize marketing offers based on what your customers prefer, and send those offers to them via SMS, which contributes to increasing your sales and increasing profits in return and increasing customer satisfaction.

Reducing costs
Automating tasks in the restaurant program, which facilitates receiving customer orders, whether through the phone application or your restaurant's email site, and linking it to the program and automatically recording those orders and directing them to the kitchens to start preparing them helps reduce the labor that receives orders and avoid errors that sometimes occur as a result of manual registration.

The automatic automation of all transactions carried out through the program contributes to reducing the use of paper documents, which of course leads to reducing the costs of purchasing those documents.

Invoice Accuracy
Electronic invoicing provides accurate and correct data to customers, helping to avoid any errors that occur as a result of manual registration, which sometimes led to incorrect requests being recorded in customer invoices, which caused them to be annoyed