This feature can help you to plan what products/recipes you need to prepare in order to meet customer demand throughout the day and reduce wait times.
Using your sales data, we are able to calculate a forecast of your projected sales for a given time period. This forecast is based on an average of your sales during that time frame, across the previous 5 weeks. This is your Product Mix.
Based on the number of menu items sold, we calculate the quantities of products used to make those menu items - This is your Recommended Production.
To find the Product Forecaster with this information in Edify, click the Product Forecasting tab from the left hand menu.
Product Forecaster Explained
There are two sections to Product Forecasting - Product Mix (left) & Recommended Production (right).
Product Mix - helps you understand how many menu items containing forecastable ingredients are typically sold during the period.
Recommended Production - helps you determine how much of the actual ingredient needs to be prepared for the period.
Product Mix
On the left handle panel of the Product Forecast page is your ‘Product Mix’.
Product Mix shows you, within a given quarter hour for the current day of the week, the average number of menu items sold over a 5 week period that contain a product that is forecastable.
This is calculated from historic sales data retrieved from the your Point of Sale system (POS).
What does it show?
The number shown is the average number of the menu item sold - not the exact quantity of the forecastable ingredient used. This number is including both main ingredients and variable ingredients (such as add-ons or substitutions).
Recommended Production
On the right-hand panel of the Product Forecast page, you’ll see the Recommended Production section. This helps determine how much of a forecastable product needs to be prepared for each 15-minute period.
What does it show?
Recommended Production calculates the average quantity of a forecastable product used within menu items sold over the past five weeks.
Unlike Product Mix, which tracks menu items sold, Recommended Production considers the actual amount of the forecastable product used within those menu items.