Hospitality venues are reopening all over the country. With pubs and bars getting back to normal, standard day-to-day tasks of running a hospitality venue are also returning. These can be tackled in a newer, more efficient way. One of the most time-consuming tasks in hospitality is stock management. Running a stock check in a bar/pub is a necessary evil that can’t be avoided.
Current systems
Many bars currently run their stock checks through methods involving meticulously counting every item in every storage place and doing this all by hand. Once that is done, someone at the business has to then take everything written out by hand and process it into a workable spreadsheet. The amount of time needed to process this information can be better spent elsewhere.
Modern EPoS systems assist in making stock takes and stock management as unobtrusive as possible. Smart EPoS technology can instantly update the stock levels that are present in the venue, as well as alerting staff as to when items are falling to a low level and need to be replenished. These systems can also be organised by room, an EPoS system will always know where an item is being taken from.
Location tiers
Whilst there have been developments in stock control, it's rare to find systems that integrate inventory management into payment systems seamlessly to provide great in depth control. The latest cutting edge stock systems are able to prioritise different storage locations within the venue so that when the stock behind the bar has been completely depleted the system knows where the next stock is coming from and can provide an accurate report of the stock levels in different rooms. If an item is unavailable from an immediate location (the bar) it will be deducted from the next available location ( the cellar)
How Staff are currently involved
In a traditional way of taking stock, staff would have to spend long hours looking at every bottle and cask and make sure everything is written down. This can take many hours and manpower that can be better utlised elsewhere in the company. With a smart EPoS, orders taken through a terminal (or a handheld device) staff don’t need to keep checking stock levels as the system will do this for them automatically.
Talk to us today to find out how your staff can benefit from automatic stock taking.
When do you take measurements
Bars and pubs don’t run stock checks every day. We agree, having a member of staff running checks everyday would be counterproductive. How about we just get rid of them altogether? A smart EPoS system can automatically deduct items from the stock. Once an order has been put through, the ingredients or items that were used to make that order are subtracted from the total stock level. Stock levels are monitored automatically in real-time, providing greater accuracy for hospitality businesses.
Auto order stock
When welcoming people back into hospitality venues, it is important to make sure everything is perfect. Many customers in the past have made orders to waiters only for them to come back and apologise that the item that was ordered is no longer available. This situation is far from ideal but easily avoidable. Alerts can be set up on every item to tell a member of staff that It has fallen below an acceptable level and that more should be ordered as soon as possible.
SPARK’s all in one ecosystem ensures that stock levels are seamlessly managed by all of our hardware. So no matter how many ordering devices you have in your venue, orders taken via handheld devices will update the stock levels at the same time as the main PoS terminal.
When it comes to stock checks, our handheld devices can also simplify the process of adding stock to the back end with intuitive inbuilt barcode scanners. Once an item's barcode is scanned, it can be added to the stock management system with minimal input from the member of staff.
If your hospitality business is still using older outdated solutions, now is the perfect time to switch to a system that is guaranteed to save you time and money. We’ve developed our Stock management system to be as user friendly and convenient as possible.