Recipe Management

Recipe Management

A food service operator had the following 3 significant goals on their radar: 1. Enable daily calculation of cost-of-sales,2. Enable regular calculation of raw product usage (as an input to perpetual inventory calculations), and3. Enable the management of product...
E-commerce Shopping Carts

E-commerce Shopping Carts

Over the years I have implemented and/or managed the online shopping cart systems for several clients. Newer WordPress themes specifically designed to work with the WooCommerce platform have made this task much easier. Skills: Web design and development; Basic...
Loyalty Program

Loyalty Program

A regional food service business competing in local markets against a dominant global corporation required a loyalty program to keep pace in the industry. Without the deep pockets of the mega-corporation we faced some technical limitations on what we could do. But we...
EDI

EDI

A manufacturing client sold product through multiple large retailers such as Walmart and Costco as well as food distributors such as Associated Foods. Those large customers required my client to accept purchase orders and send invoices via EDI. We implemented an...
ERP Selection & Implementation

ERP Selection & Implementation

ERP systems are complex, opaque, and expensive. Finding the right solution can be a challenge, and getting the system implemented successfully is not for the faint of heart. From McDonald’s in 2000 until now, I’ve worked on several projects of this nature over the...
Schedappy

Schedappy

In 2008 I was working with a client to improve their employee scheduling process. What worked fine for a handful of locations was quickly becoming unmanageable as they continued to grow. We evaluated the scheduling package from the POS vendor and found it cumbersome,...