Release Notes: Recipe and Menus: New Report: Recipes Invalid for Inventory and Option Recipe Yield Calculation Methods

What’s Changing?

New Report: Recipes Invalid for Inventory
Option Recipe: No Impact on Standard Recipes, Yield Calculation Methods (Manual/Auto-calculate)

Release Date: 16th April 2019 (USA) - 17th April 2019 (Europe and Asia)

Reason for the Change
General system enhancements

Customers Affected

New report, Ingredients Invalid for Inventory: Optional, can be enabled for any customer on request.
Option recipe change: All customers using Option Recipe (recipe type).

Release Notes

New Report: Recipes Invalid for Inventory

This new report:

Lists recipe records that are missing mandatory Inventory values, e.g. Cost Centre Category/Menu Item Category
Includes the same validation information as is presented in the ‘Publish to FnB’ validation window

This report is optional and can be enabled by raising a case with Fourth's Service Team.

Option Recipe: No Impact on Standard Recipe’s, Yield Calculation Methods (Manual / Auto-calculate)

When an Option Recipe is included as an ‘ingredient’ in a Standard Recipe, the Yield > Raw Weight > calculation methods – Manual and Auto-calculate – will both be available

In Fig.1 below, Auto-calculate has been selected. To enable manual calculation, un-tick this box and enter a value in the field that becomes available.

Fig.1 - Auto-calculate selected for Raw Weight calculation

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