With new meal pattern requirements, rising food costs, and reimbursement rates not keeping up, it’s important to find ways to cut costs and increase efficiency while being compliant with regulations. Horizon’s “smart system” helps you manage your costs while ensuring nutritious and compliant meals.
Rest assured that OneSource Back Office is easy-to-use and was designed with your staff in mind. The system includes helpful EZ Steps wizards that guide users through tasks, such as physical inventory, shopping list ordering, and menu plan ordering.
OneSource is approved by USDA for analysis of calories, saturated fat, and sodium for certification of compliance with new meal pattern requirements
Control your costs by managing:
- Overstock
- Shortages
- Expensive add–on orders
- Under-utilization of commodities
- Cost-effective menu planning
- Portion control
- Failure to recoup rebate revenue
- Improper billing
- Incorrect pricing
Reduce losses from theft and shrinkage
- Detect employee theft using suspicious transaction reports, integrated video linked to journal, keystroke capture, and audit trails
- Identify vendor fraud with tools to help you track bid prices and compare ordered, received, and invoiced quantities
Easily comply with new meal pattern regulations
- Meal pattern contributions and nutrient analysis are automatically calculated as menu items are entered and displayed by the system
- Monitor compliance on the screen as you make menu changes, as the system recalculates changes in real time
Effective tools help by doing the math for your staff
- Automatically scales menu plans and recipes
- Converts servings to inventory units
- Keeps track of inventory counts
Protect your district from food-borne illness liability
- Product recalls
OneSource easily identifies locations of contaminated products so you know where and when each affected item was served throughout the district. - Food safety
Horizon’s integrated temperature management system, TempAlert, enables you to easily check and automatically record food temperatures throughout the production process. The system prompts for corrective action and documents HACCP compliance.
Complete integration saves time and drives good decisions
- Inventory and price changes are entered into one system instead of separate Back Office and POS systems
- System converts servings to case units for ease of ordering and for pulling production
- Order quantities are automatically forecast based on planned menus
- Production records are automatically created with projected items and servings
- Temperatures are automatically recorded on production records
- Menu plan changes automatically update POS system menus
- Perpetual inventory is automatically updated through receiving, transfers, production, and POS sales
Back Office Modules
Horizon's OneSource Back Office system gives you complete control over the important processes that go on behind the scenes to help you save both time and money.
Inventory Management
Your inventory is a major part of your total expense and should be protected as if it were money sitting on your shelves.
- Gain control over inventory to reduce theft and lower food costs by an average of 10-15%
Procurement
The key to lowering food costs is to buy only what you need.
- Place intelligent orders quickly and efficiently with EZ Steps Wizards that guide users through the process
Bid Analysis
Horizon helps you take the headaches out of the bid process.
- Make the entire process fast and efficient using seven easy steps to creating, analyzing and awarding bids
Production
Efficiency is the name of the game when it comes to producing meals.
- Streamline the production process and maximize your staff's efficiency in the kitchen to improve meals-per-labor-hour
Menu Planner/Nutrition Analysis
Menu planning and nutrition analysis are vital functions at the heart of every child nutrition program.
- Maintain compliance and serve nutritious meals that students will enjoy
USDA Commodity Management
Automating your commodity tracking process helps you save time and reduce food costs.
- Maximize your use of free commodities using tools that will make receiving, allocation, and distribution more efficient
Personnel Management
OneSource offers you personnel management tools designed for the unique needs of the K-12 food service industry.
- Track a wealth of information including education, disciplinary action, and meritorious comments as well as complete time and attendance
Fixed Asset Management
Keeping up with all of your fixed assets is a sizable task. OneSource makes it easy.
- Organize and track everything from asset description, vendor and location to depreciation, warranty, and maintenance
Central Warehouse & Distribution
OneSource is here to help you manage your central warehouse and distribution functions.
- Manage your warehouse inventory from procurement and receiving to order consolidation, fulfillment, and shipping
Central Kitchen
Managing a central kitchen production operation, such as quick-chill and pre-plate, comes with unique challenges.
- Meet these challenges with an all-inclusive, integrated system that helps you with inventory tracking, ordering, production, and shipping
Base Kitchen
Base kitchen operations involve a wide range of functions.
- Manage all aspects of your operation from processing satellite site orders and consolidating production requirements to producing delivery tickets and maintaining production records
Catering
Catering services can help improve your bottom line; get the best results by effectively managing your operation.
- Create specialized catering recipes and catering menu plans, generate proposals, and turn them into invoices, as well as manage the entire production process
Contact us today for more information and a free software demonstration.
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- Reduce food costs
5%–15% - Decrease theft
- Minimize liability from food-borne illness
- Eliminate duplicate work with complete integration
“We were able to decrease labor costs by $217,400, and two new schools were opened during that time. Even with the increase in students and schools, we have been able to control costs using Horizon’s system.”
Chad Mitchell
Rock Hill School District Three
Download the Back Office product information sheet.
This information sheet will provide a high-level overview of the features and benefits of the product, as well as any technical specifications that might be helpful.
If you have any questions about information on the product sheet, please do not hesitate to contact your sales representative.
Rock Hill School District 3 reduced food costs by $53,000 and labor costs by $217,000 the first year despite opening two new schools.
Download the Rock Hill Case Study
These studies serve as examples for comparison only.
Case studies reflect a particular outcome within an individual business and does not necessarily guarantee the same results to another business. Your results may be affected by factors such as size, technology, user experience, and other intangibles. Our sales representatives and client relations managers will work with you to determine what software will work best for you based on those factors.
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