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Manila maintains onsite warehousing for over five hundred items , including operating supplies and also food and beverage items . The warehouse team manages over 500 SKUs , many of which have different weights and expiration dates . “ We ’ re dealing with many products that do not have a fixed case weight ,” Bogle says . “ As these cases go into inventory , we need to be able to record the actual incoming weights , the costs and subsequently the average inventory cost to correctly and accurately calculate the food costs and the recipes .
“ When we order beef , it doesn ’ t necessarily come in a fixed case weight , but in an average case weight . However , we get charged by the kilogram , not by the case . You may say that a case is an average of 25kg , but there are times we receive 24.7kg , then the next time we receive 25.3 kg . We have to have a system that manages the ability to calculate the true cost , and also to manage The Retail Area at the Okada Manila Resort www . supplychaindigital . com 105