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reciProfity uses two key terms, Ingredients and Products. What do these terms mean, and how are they different?
Why it's important
- Ingredient Definition: An ingredient is a component of a mixture. For example, when making chocolate chip cookies, flour is one of the ingredients.
- Product Definition: Products refer to various items purchased from vendors, available in different package sizes. Multiple products can be associated with a single ingredient. For example, unbleached flour comes in 1 lb, 5 lb, 25 lb, and 50 lb bags. From a recipe’s perspective, the size of the bag purchased does not affect the ingredient; all bags contain the same unbleached flour. However, buying a 50 lb bag can lower the cost per cookie since it is cheaper per pound than the 1 lb bag. Product information is essential for reciProfity to calculate recipe food costs and margin percentages.
How to use it
reciProfity automatically generates a unique product for each ingredient when you upload an Order Guide. It’s common to encounter duplicate ingredients when uploading multiple vendor order guides. For example, if you purchase a case of 24 jars of applesauce from Vendor A and a case of 12 jars of applesauce from Vendor B, uploading both catalogs will result in two separate applesauce ingredients. To eliminate this duplication, utilize the Ingredient Merge feature, which allows you to consolidate the two entries into a single ingredient with both products assigned.
Here is an example of what an ingredient would look like after merging:
- The item name is Applesauce, Fancy
- Below that are 2 products, Product #1 is from Sysco and Product #2 is from Ben E. Keith. Both are fancy applesauce.
- Since they are packed differently, both prices are displayed.