Ideal Usage Issues

Question: Why is my ideal cost of sales is higher than what’s displayed in my POS?

 

Reason

Solution

The sales Mix entries are duplicated.

 

Click on Sales Mix window and see if you have saved your sales mix twice. Go to the Sales Mix pick window, highlight the duplicate sales mix and click Delete.

You have imported regular days of sales and then perhaps run one of the sales mix reports from your POS for half a month or so.

 

Open each sales mix and see if there is one of the sales mixes that is extremely high in number.

 

 

Question: Why is my Ideal Usage too low for one or more items?

Reasons

Reason

Solution

There are either pending sales to reconcile.

 

If there are Menu Products in Pending Sales when you run the Usage Summary report, sales will not be processed for the items in Pending Sales and the Ideal Usage numbers will be incorrect. The reason for this is that Pending Sales are suspended until they are linked to a Product in Optimum Control so that the proper items can be removed from inventory to account for their sales.

Product recipes containing this item have been ignored.

 

If Menu Products have been Ignored in the Sales Window, no sales will be processed for the items included in those recipes. To apply the sales for Ignored Products to a Sales Mix, click Sales |IgnoredPOS ID to un-check any Products that shouldn’t be Ignored.