Hot Production Planning

Hot production is for items served warm from a hot counter - soups, hot mains and the like - that you make fresh in small batches through the day rather than in one or two fixed runs.

Each station makes to a rolling schedule of short time slots (for example 15-minute batches), topping the counter up so there's always something ready to serve without over-producing.

There are two parts to it. First you plan how much each recipe should make across the day, by station and time slot, on the Hot production tab of the Production page.

Then, on the day, the team runs the bench from the live Stepper view, working batch by batch as each slot comes due.

On the Production page, switch from Daily production to the Hot production tab at the top. As with daily production, check the site shown top-left and use Switch site if you need to change it, then choose the day from the day cards (or Pick date).

Three controls sit above the list:

The bottom bar shows a save indicator (All changes saved / unsaved), along with Stepper, PCR and Save plan.

In the By recipe view, each recipe on the station is listed with:

The Planned today total at the top right sums the station's planned quantity across all recipes. Switch to the By time slot view to see the same plan grouped by time slot instead of by recipe, and use Hide empty slots to collapse slots with nothing scheduled.

When the plan looks right, select Save plan.

Select Edit forecast to open the Sales forecast panel, which sets the forecasted demand for the station by time slot. Edify analyses sales from previous weeks to predict production quantities, showing an Average sales and Average quantity summary at the top.

Beneath them, the five most recent matching weekdays appear as dated rows, each with a toggle. Turn a week off to leave it out of the average - useful for excluding an atypical day. Select Apply forecast to plan to populate the planned quantities from the forecast, or Cancel to close without changing anything.

Select Edit default times to change the station's default production window and slot timings - the schedule the planner and bench work to.

On the day, select Stepper to open the live Hot Bench view for the station. This is the screen the team works from, refreshing as the day progresses.

Along the top are the current time, a POS synced indicator, the station dropdown, date navigation, the batch size (for example 15-min batches), a settings cog (which takes you directly to Hot Production settings), and a close button.

The bench is organised around batches:

Where a group has more batches than fit, use the pager (for example 1/2) or Show all. When there's nothing due, the bench shows Nothing to make right now - you're caught up; when the counter is empty it prompts Shelf empty - make a batch below to stock the counter.

With PCR enabled, made quantities are captured in a review rather than straight on the bench (the bench shows batch tiles as in review). Select PCR to open the Hot production review page:

Each product card carries:

Use + Add product to record something made that wasn't on the plan. A completed card collapses to a Complete state with the time and a Made badge.

With PCR switched off, there's no separate review step - the team records what's made directly on the bench.

If the you have made the planned quantity just click the white box on the recipe tile.

If you have made more/less than the planned quantity click the pencil icon and use the + and - buttons to change the quantity.

When you click save we record this as the made quantity, so only click save once you have the correct number input.