Inventory Management: Released Customer Ideas – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal

Please find below all Inventory Management Releases that had origins in an idea raised by you, our Customer! To raise an idea, please visit our Ideas Community Page.

Idea	Release Note/Details
Find & Replace Upgrade Recommendation	RME \| Bulk Edit Refinements, Replace in Recipes Refinement
RME flaw allows TS upload to fail	RME \| Bulk-Edit Recipe Sell Price, Reject Invoice Cost Price of Zero, Intolerance Value 'May'
Inventory- Stock period 4-4-5 to have added logic	Details in post
Co2 UI Report	RME \| Recipe CO2 Report, API Refinements, Batch Recipe Descriptor, Workflow Reports Extended
RME - Allow Bulk Update of recipe selling price in RME	RME \| Bulk-Edit Recipe Sell Price, Reject Invoice Cost Price of Zero, Intolerance Value 'May'
Purchasing (Trade Simple): Request to allow a customer to choose either a PO or Delivery Note by supplier when creating GRNs.	Details in post
Stock period Status report in Excel	Inventory \| Export Period Status Report \| Ordering by Barcode
Stock Period Length- Decouple Stock Period Approval from GRN export	Inventory \| Allow GRNs to be Exported Before Period End
093 Requirement to report on Carbon Footprint at recipe level (Sodexo)	RME \| CO2 Ingredient and Recipe Values
073 Unpublish menu cycles by one, multiple or all locations (Sodexo)	May 11th 2023, Release Notes: RME \| Menu Cycles: Local Production Requirements Report for Multiple Menu Cycles, Unpublish Per Location – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
087 MC Consumer facing report - Change pricing value to 2 decimal places (Sodexo)	September 29th 2022, RME \| Menu Cycles: Add Recipes and Menus to Published Menu Cycles, Copy Past Date Meal Periods, Report Refinements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
'086 MC Traffic Light Report - Remove decimal places from report (Sodexo)	September 29th 2022, RME \| Menu Cycles: Add Recipes and Menus to Published Menu Cycles, Copy Past Date Meal Periods, Report Refinements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
RME: Ability to limit character length on Menu Description and Description	Replace in Recipes as Asynchronous Operation, Recipe Description/Menu Description Max Length Configuration Option
RME- Allow Scheduled changes	RME \| Pending Recipe Selling Price
0067 Change menu cycle reports default dates to todays date instead of the menu cycle Start and End date (Sodexo)	[Q1 2022]
0064 Traffic light reporting - require the ability to filter results based on planned / unplanned numbers (Sodexo)	RME \| Menu Cycles: Reports ~ Shelf Edge Label, Allergen, and Traffic Light
0063 Improvements to menu cycle Customer Facing Report (Sodexo)	January 24th 2023, Release Notes: RME \| Menu Cycles: 'Remove' Items From Published Menu Cycles, Report Refinements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
Prevent the loss of a menu cycle at locations in the event of all meal periods have been deleted by local user	RME \| Menu Cycles: Calorie Report Footer, Shelf Edge Label Report, Mass Update Prices V2 Search by Category, Empty Weeks
Make Data Inheritance logic between RME and Menu Cycles	RME \| Menu Cycles: Groups with Inherited Data Supported for Menu Cycles App
Calorie Labelling Legislation - RME Reporting	RME \| Single-Ingredient Recipes, New Report. GET Nutrition, More Precision in API Responses
Carbon Labelling on (RME) StarChef	RME \| Recipe CO2 Calculation, GET/recipeCO2, Supplier Order UoM, Nutrition Report, Alternate Ingredient Values Display
MC End date: Ability to extend the menu cycle end date for a published menu cycle (Sodexo)	RME \| Menu Cycles: Extend End Date of Published Menu Cycle
MC API: Enable A Connection (via Recipe ID) Between RME and MC (Sodexo)	Details in post
Remove an ingredient across multiple recipes	RME: Replace in Recipes
Preventing GRn for re-opening if invoice is recorded against it	Inventory \| Restaurants: Preventing Approved GRNs from being Reopened
RME - Being able to see what Menu/s a recipe is in easily.	RME: Recipe Usage in Menus
RME - Being able to order menu courses within a menu.	RME: Change ALC Menu Course Order, Log In/Log Out Report, Ingredient Pack Descriptor
Ability to Delete recipes/content to existing Published Menu Cycle (Sodexo)	January 24th 2023, Release Notes: RME \| Menu Cycles: 'Remove' Items From Published Menu Cycles, Report Refinements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
Ability to Add recipes/content to existing Published Menu Cycle (Sodexo)	September 29th 2022, RME \| Menu Cycles: Add Recipes and Menus to Published Menu Cycles, Copy Past Date Meal Periods, Report Refinements – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
RME: Show read-only Ingredient List information on the Recipe and Ingredient overview pop-ups (for PPDS)	RME: Ingredient List, 'Set' Info in GET Requests, #1 Ranked Alternate Ingredients, Non-Food Ingredients Default to 'Consumable'
RME: Export API - Override Price
RME: Auto Creation to Single Ingredient Recipes	RME \| Single-Ingredient Recipes, New Report. GET Nutrition, More Precision in API Responses
Menu Cycles: Output Date on Allergen Report	Details in post
Menu Cycles: Location Search when Publishing a Menu Cycle	[June 17th 2021]
Menu Cycles: Remove Requirement to Plan At Least One Item to Be Able to Publish	[June 17th 2021]
Menu Cycles: Conversion of Local Production Requirements Report from CSV to Excel	September 28th 2023, Release Notes: RME \| Menu Cycles: New Admin Page for Sales Quantities Sent to Inventory, CSV to Excel Report Refinements, 'Expand all tariff rows' Button – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
Inventory: Automation of Creation of Wastage in Inventory Based on Waste Captured in Menu Cycles	Auto Creation of Wastage Transactions from Menu Cycles
Menu Cycles: Simplification of the Planning Screen	Release Notes: Menu Cycles: Design Refresh, Additional Data from POS – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
RME: Set Information on Export APIs	RME: Ingredient List, 'Set' Info in GET Requests, #1 Ranked Alternate Ingredients, Non-Food Ingredients Default to 'Consumable'
Inventory: Send Reason Codes to TS from Inventory	Details in post
RME: Last modified date visible in starchef Light and on a recipe card printed from starshef Light	Details in post
RME: Additional field RME API - Shelf Life	Ingredient List 'Ready for Use' Tick Box, Updated Recipe Reports, API Updates, Site-linking Validation
RME: Recipe and Menu Engineering - An option to copy the alternates or not	RME: Report Renamed, Copy Parent Ingredient Only, Recipe Ingredients 'Expanded View'
RME: Recipe Yield Tab - View Settings	September 14th 2021, Release Note: RME: Approvals List, Admin Upload, Recipe Yield Fields – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
RME: Approval Process Improvements	September 14th 2021, Release Note: RME: Approvals List, Admin Upload, Recipe Yield Fields – Fourth & HotSchedules Customer Success Portal
RME: Alternate Ingredients to be Searchable	Product Name, Supplier Code, Recipes by Menu
RME: Recipe Ingredients Indentation on Expansion	RME: Report Renamed, Copy Parent Ingredient Only, Recipe Ingredients 'Expanded View'
RME: Approval process, Recipe and Menu Engineering, Improved process and reduce loss of data	RME Release Note: Option in Approvals Workflow to 'Return to' Specific Approving User Group
Inventory: Stop GRN Edits where Invoice is Exported or Improve Workflow	Inventory \| Restaurants: Preventing Approved GRNs from being Reopened
RME/Inventory: Alphanumeric PLU restrictions	Details in post
RME: We need to remove the need to specify Consumables or Equipment when creating non-food ingredients	RME: Ingredient List, 'Set' Info in GET Requests, #1 Ranked Alternate Ingredients, Non-Food Ingredients Default to 'Consumable'

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