Food Cost Software

Food cost control and food labor cost control

To understand whether a food distribution or processing company is profitable you need to know two key factors:  How much you sold and how much it cost.  Unfortunately for many companies, the tools to quickly and accurately determine these two key points have been out of reach, unaffordable, or impossible to implement.  Over the past twenty years we’ve seen business owners cobble together cumbersome food cost control spreadsheets in excel, trying to calculate an accurate cost of their products including freight and other fees, then manually moving the Excel food costs over to an accounting package not designed to handle them in the first place.

Further complicating the food cost control issue, food business owners calculate their costs in varying ways. Some are required to work off a purchase cost, others need to use a true cost that combines the purchase and freight costs. Some need to use First-in First Out (FIFO) costing, some choose an average cost of all stock in inventory. Some go with the last cost paid and others base off of a market cost.  Unlike generic accounting tools, Food Connex Cloud food costing software was designed from inception to handle these complex cost calculations.

The problem becomes obvious: Because they are using the wrong food cost software tools, they have to work harder. Like trying to turn a screw with a hammer, users become frustrated and eventually give up. Business owners settle for determining profitability at the end of the quarter, or worse - at the end of the year.  Food Connex Cloud is here to solve those problems by providing food businesses with the tools they need to accurately capture costs, allocate them properly and automatically, and send those costs directly to QuickBooks without need for manual intervention.

This dramatically reduces the labor required for bookkeeping, but just as importantly, it gives the business owners and sales managers access to accurate costs before the sale is made.  You’ll know your profitability for each transaction while you still have ability to manage it, rather than after the fact.