(Maitre'D 2005, from Service Pack 1 and later versions of 2005)
Inventory Management
You can recalculate all Inventory Posting Quantities during the End Of
Day process. This allow for more precision when using very small fractions
in recipes. Let's say you buy vegetable oil by barrels of 50 gallons,
but count it in inventory by gallons, and use it muffins by the ounce.
The cost of the vegetable oil in an individual muffin could be a mere
0.00002 of a gallon, with an inherent calculation error. If you sell thousands
of muffins a day, this error could come up to a quart of a gallon, for
example. Using the EOD Inventory Posting method will make the calculated
quantity of the vegetable oil used more precise, since it is based on
the total quantity sold.
First, all sales quantities used during the day are un-posted from the
inventory. Second, all sales quantities are cumulated by mode and revenue
center. Third, these quantities are resent to the inventory post engine
using the total multiplied quantity.
To enable this precision, under the C:\Posera\MaitreD\Data directory,
in the [Miscellaneous] section of the Bo.ini file, add the following configuration
key and value:
EodInventory=True
Note: When modifying the Bo.ini, first stop the Server through Server
Control, then exit both the Server Control and P.O.S. Control modules,
modify the Bo.ini Configuration Key and Value, and only then start the
Server again before redoing workstation data.
