Counting takes the whole evening
A tablet in a chiller is slow, cold and easy to drop. Most teams end up counting on paper anyway and then keying it in twice.
For operations
Every system looks good with clean data and nobody waiting. This one is designed for a short-staffed evening when the count is late and a delivery just arrived.
Count sheet · Outlet 07 · 31 Aug 2026 · Layout v3
A tablet in a chiller is slow, cold and easy to drop. Most teams end up counting on paper anyway and then keying it in twice.
Your central kitchen makes the sauce. Outlet 4 buys it in because it has no space. Most systems make you choose one answer for the whole group, so one of those outlets is costed wrong permanently.
Someone posts a count against the wrong outlet at 10pm. If fixing it requires an email to a vendor, the number stays wrong for a week.
An approved production plan should not force anyone to misreport what they actually made. Reality wins, and the system has to be able to record it.
These are mechanisms, not promises.
Print it, tally it with a pen, photograph it. Corner marks let the reader correct for the angle, so the figures come from the boxes they were printed in. If the sheet is one it does not recognise, it refuses rather than guessing.
A company default that every outlet inherits, an override for the outlet that does it differently, and an explicit buy-in for the outlet that purchases it instead. All three cost correctly at the same time.
A wrong batch is corrected by posting a compensating one. Nothing is overwritten, nothing needs a support ticket, and the history of what actually happened stays intact.
You can record a batch nobody planned. The variance against the plan is then a real figure someone can look at, rather than a number that was quietly forced to match.
It is a document with lines, an approval, and its own stock movements. Thirty seconds at the time beats an unexplained figure at month end.
Stock that has left one outlet and not yet arrived sits on its own in-transit ledger. The transfer cannot close while anything is unaccounted for.
The part most systems get wrong
An approved plan must not force anyone to misreport what they actually made. Every mechanism on this page follows from that.
The fastest way to judge this is to look at the sheet your team would actually carry.