Stock items with proper units
Record items in the units you actually buy and use — pieces, kilograms, litres, bottles, cartons — from a shared unit library.
Inventory & Stock
Know what you bought, what you used and what it cost — down to the recipe.
Anli Inventory tracks every item from purchase to plate. Stock comes in through a purchase log, prepared dishes consume their recipe ingredients as they sell, and expiring stock is flagged before it becomes waste.
For: Hotels and restaurants losing margin to untracked stock, expired goods and guesswork food costs.
What Inventory & Stock does
Purchase log
Every stock-in is logged with vendor details and date, so what you hold always traces back to what you bought.
Expiring-stock tracking
Stock dates and expiry dates are kept per item, and items nearing expiry surface before they spoil.
Recipes that drive COGS
Prepared items are built from recipes; each sale consumes the ingredients, so cost of goods sold is calculated, not estimated.
Clear item types
Purchased, prepared, resale and consumable items are handled distinctly, so drinks, dishes and housekeeping supplies never blur together.
One stock picture
The same inventory feeds the restaurant and the back office — no separate store spreadsheet to reconcile at month end.
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How it works in practice
Goods arrive and the store logs them against the vendor in the purchase log, in the units they were bought. The kitchen sells a prepared dish and Anli consumes its recipe ingredients automatically, updating stock and COGS together. When an item nears its expiry date it is flagged for use or clearance — and at month end, the stock position is a report, not an investigation.
Inventory & Stock — questions, answered
How does Anli calculate food cost (COGS)?
Prepared items in Anli carry recipes. Each time one sells, the recipe’s ingredients are consumed from stock at their purchase cost, so cost of goods sold is built up from real purchase prices rather than estimated percentages.
Can Anli warn us before stock expires?
Yes. Items carry stock and expiry dates, and Anli surfaces items nearing expiry so the kitchen can use or clear them before they become waste.
What units can stock be recorded in?
Anli keeps a shared library of units of measure — pieces, kilograms, grams, litres, millilitres, bottles, cans, cartons, packs and more — and items are recorded in the units your team actually buys and serves in.
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