Advanced Back Office Consulting Services Help your program comply with the new requirements and reduce your food costs
With the new meal pattern regulations that will be coming into effect with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, it's more important than ever to use a strong back office management system that will help you streamline your inventory, procurement, and menu planning functions.
Horizon knows how busy you and your staff are. That's why we are now offering Advanced Back Office Consulting Services to help you manage your back office system, with best practices that will also lower your food costs.
Inventory and Ordering Management
- Maintain a perpetual inventory
- Place accurate orders using our advanced menu plan ordering
- Manage inventory returns (site and warehouse process)
- Control the stock transfers (site and central office)
- Manage receiving (receiving ticket vs. invoice)
- Perform inventory audit and clean-up (deleting old inventory items)
- Maintain and update Inventory during the bid process
- Analyze inventory movement to minimize food loss from over production, theft, portion control, and waste
Menu Plan/Production Control
- Maintain menu plans developed by an RD/SNS that meet new meal pattern regulations (Click here for more information)
- Cost recipes and menus
- Manage leftovers to reduce waste and overall food costs
- Understand usage and how it helps with accurate ordering and maintaining a perpetual inventory
- Manage electronic production records
- Maintain and update recipes and menus during the bid process
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- Horizon has extensive experience with best practices for food service operations
- Horizon’s back office system has helped districts lower their food cost by 10% and more
“With Horizon’s system, our food costs for the 2008-2009 school year decreased by $52,700 compared to the 2007-2008 school year.”
Chad Mitchell
Food Service Director
Rock Hill School District