Being part of back end processes and hidden behind the glitz and glamour of the hospitality industry is Store and Inventory Management. A rather important operational area, inventory management lets managers automate the process of tracking inward movement of raw-materials, managing recipe and production and consumption of food and beverages in the hotel.

While providing hotel service, it is required to procure and store a large number of inventory items on a regular basis. This generates a large number of transactions involving multiple people and departments that make it difficult to prevent malpractices (e.g. pilfering-of-goods or improper-disposal-of-usable-items) and corruption (e.g. under-supply-over-billing or inferior-quality-at-higher-prices). This eats up a major portion of the operating funds and directly affects profits and guest services.

A store and inventory management system integrated with your PMS module offers a perpetual inventory control system for procurement, purchasing, storing, issuing, production with physical stock verification.

 Procurement and Purchasing responsibility: Replenishment module automatically lists out the items, that need to be to be procured with re-order quantity based on consumption during a specified period and pre-defined supply lead-time.
 Stock Adjustments (Stock Journal): It helps you with proper recording of stock adjustments so that each activity is recorded to keep the inventory in sync with books. It includes procedures for disposal and writing-off stock with a proper recording and auditing system.
 Physical Stock Check and Balances: It helps to record the physical stock of items based on random warehouse, brand, group, bin, etc.
 Store Indent (requisition): It helps user to raise inter-branch indents and request for required items. Alternatively, central store, based on the consumption of each kitchen, can issue the raw-materials on a periodic basis.

The store and inventory management is the high-contribution department to success and growth of your business. If you take good care of this, it contributes to high profits.

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