Example 1 – For a case of ground beef, you could indicate “pounds” for the default Reporting unit. Then when adding the Pack Size, you can enter a case of packages. This is fine if you indicate under pack Unit, how many pounds are in a package.
Example 2 – Spices –
1. indicate the how it’s used as by ‘weight’ (even though you use by teaspoon or cup in some recipes).
2. The reporting unit will come up as pound/kilo depending on your settings, you may want to report by container rather than pounds, so choose Container (a little warning icon will appear, don’t worry about this yet, it just means that Optimum Control needs to know what weight the container is)
3. Over to the case size, select the supplier and indicate the price per container, then for ‘split unit’ you can also select container, then enter the number of ounces or grams in the container.
4.
For the teaspoon, cup, use by volume issue, save the item, then click on
the Nutrition icon on the
toolbar
5.
click link to and select the spice from the USDA list
(or if not concerned with nutrition, select the spice with closest
characteristics for weight, grain etc.) Once selected, a window will ask
if you would like to select some additional conversions, say YES.
You can choose at least 1 `volume to weight’ conversion (eg: 1 teaspoon = 8
grams). Then when you save, the spice can be used by any weight or volume
measure.
If you would like to add more conversions then click the conversions icon on the desktop and add your own conversion.
Example 3 – An item by volume such as pineapple juice.
1. Purchase by the case of 12 cans 64 fl ounces.
2. Enter the How is it used by volume. With a reporting unit by the ‘can’ (the warning icon will appear), default unit ingredient can be left as fluid ounce or changed to any other volume measure.
3. In the case size, indicate the supplier and then indicate the price per case, choose the split unit of can and the Pack unit of 64 fl ounces. Now in recipes the Pineapple juice can be used by any volume measure but also by the can.