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Book a Custom Demo today to see how your team can turn data into action with real-time insights. A concise, measured view shows how a basis of disciplined processes drives balance oraz greater outcomes.

We tailor the session to employee roles and workflows, so you watch a live workflow that connects spreadsheets to core tools. You’ll see how data is recorded and then used for calculating key metrics, helping your team achieve successful outcomes across departments.

Think of your project as a set of ingredients that combine on a solid basis. In the demo, we map each ingredient to a function: time saved, accuracy improved, and lifecycle balance. The dashboards surface greater clarity and measured progress.

Z real-time data flows, you can compare scenarios side by side so difficult tradeoffs become clearer. After the session, you’ll receive a recorded summary and a concrete action plan you can reuse with marketmans data, then attach to your roadmap.

Reserve a 60-minute slot and start tightening your planning cadence. Our team guides stakeholders–from frontline employee to executive sponsor–ensuring your pilot stays on budget and yields tangible results.

Tailored Demos for COGS Automation: Practical Steps to Value

Begin the demo with a concrete recommendation: identify the top five COGS drivers and pull the essential data to calculate the impact of automating that data.

Step 1: Define scope. Choose a representative subset of items, including meals, to illustrate COGS variance. Map components: materials, labor, overhead, and logistics. Collect essential data: unit costs, quantities produced, stock levels, and turnover rates. This baseline usually reveals where savings originate and what the difference is when you automate data capture and calculations. Automation helps produce reliable inputs for the model. Generated insights support decision-making.

Step 2: Map variables and data sources. Identify the variables that drive costs: batch size, yield, spoilage, shipping mode, and supplier lead times. Tie each variable to a data source so the demo can show how automation produce reliable input for calculations. Highlight how automating data flows reduces rework and overstating ROI. Automation can produce consistent inputs for modeling.

Step 3: Build a value model. Create a scenario that shifts processes from manual entry to automated data capture. Use calculating ROI and a clear payback period; illustrate incremental profitability. Show how turnover oraz stock turns improve with better forecasting. Demonstrate how a modest shift in workflow can increase profitability while maintaining service levels. Include an additional improvement like faster month-end close and fewer stockouts. Generated insights reinforce decisions.

Step 4: Establish guardrails. Explain results realistically; avoid overstating. Since the model uses a conservative base, outcomes stay within a defined range. typically, organizations see a 5-15% koszty reduction with a gain in margins, plus a shift in workload that reduces overtime. Usually, this translates into higher profitability margins over the first year. Use a reference table showing data, turnover, and potential profitability increase to guide decisions.

Step 5: Plan next steps. After the demonstration, schedule a personalized demo for your team to tailor the model to your product mix and data source. Bring fresh data on stock levels, meals, and orders; we will align your KPIs and set a pilot with measurable milestones. Schedule your personalized demo today to accelerate your COGS automation journey.

What to Expect in a Custom COGS Demo

Bring your last three months of COGS data and book a 15-minute prep call to tailor the demo to your cost structure. The session delivers a practical, data-driven walkthrough that shows how inputs drive outputs and how to act on the insights you gain.

• Live breakdown of COGS components: materials, labor, services, and overhead, with a focus on what to track per period
• Tracking and measure: see how cost data flows from receipts to dashboards and how you can validate accuracy
• Back-end integration: we map sources, validate data quality, and show where data comes from and how it updates
• Engineer’s involvement: a dedicated engineer joins to answer questions about mappings, data quality, and integration
• Processes and managing: watch how the platform supports your cost-management processes and ongoing cost control
• Period view and comparisons: compare current versus prior periods to spot trends and quantify impact
• Tasks you can automate: automate data collection, validation, and alerts to reduce manual effort
• Measuring outcomes: we show measured potential impact, including greater accuracy and faster cycle times
• Opportunities to improve: identify opportunities to lower costs widely across materials, services, and labor
• Opportunity scope: generally applicable across departments, with options to include more SKUs or cost centers
• Discount and bulk options: if youre planning changes across many items, bulk pricing or volume discounts may apply
• Included deliverables: a tailored report, a prioritized action plan, and a next-step timetable
• Then next steps: you choose to run a pilot, expand to more services, or finalize a broader rollout
• Actionable outcomes: you leave with measurable milestones and owners assigned for each task

The deck will include a cost breakdown, baseline, and a prioritized action plan you can act on immediately; these metrics are widely adopted and directly tied to your objectives. If youre exploring multiple cost centers, we tailor the plan to your needs and confirm how each step moves you toward tangible savings.

Link Demo Topics to Your Margin, Cost, and Inventory Goals

Map each demo topic to a target margin on meals you price today. Knowing the effect of a feature on average profitability keeps the session concrete and actionable. Since small price shifts can move margins, use this topic early.

• Pricing and margins
  • Topic: Dynamic price guidance using real-time demand signals. This feature shows how prices and customer reactions shift average margin per meal. Just a small price bump can lift profitability. With many customers, this adds up. Knowing the impact in clear numbers helps you decide where to apply price changes in your menu.
• Fixed costs, expense control, and cost visibility
  • Topic: Separate fixed and variable costs; expose expense categories in the model; see how adjusting supplier terms affects profitability. Reducing fixed costs or optimizing expenses improves profitability across meals.
• Inventory accuracy and waste reduction
  • Topic: Inventory accuracy metrics and waste tracking. Show how improving accuracy reduces spoilage, produces more meals from same stock, and cuts expenses. Example: cutting waste from 5% to 2% saves thousands across a week. Even reductions of less than 1% translate into gains.
• Forecasting, production, and meals planning
  • Topic: Demand forecasting and production planning. Use spreadsheets for generating scenarios; track accuracy; align daily output with sales. They can see how changes affect demand and adjust. This boosts profitability by reducing overproduction and out-of-stocks, while maintaining menu experience for customers.
• Menu profitability and prices by item
  • Topic: Item-level profitability: track cost per dish, average margin, and price tiers. This helps you decide which meals to promote, which to optimize, and how to produce more of the high-margin options for many customers.

Spreadsheets serve as the backbone for these analyses, consolidating data from purchases, recipe costs, sales, and spoilage. Use them to generate a quick view of how the numbers move with each topic, so you can pick the most impactful topics for your next demo.

Live Data Scenarios to Verify COGS Automation

Run three highly focused live data scenarios to verify COGS automation, then compare results against produced statements across 12 periods. Start with a representative product mix that includes beverages and other SKUs to ensure realism, and validate that data quality is input before the run. This lets you see whether calculated COGS align with expectations and where automation is robust or needs tuning.

Scenario 1 – Standard mix, stable costs: pull 12 periods with consistent unit costs and no promotions. Calculate COGS as unit_cost × quantity and compare with the system’s output. Ensure that the price basis, freight, and wastage are reflected; if the category sells beverages more often, expect higher COGS, and verify the delta matches the demand signal. If the system produces inflated numbers, trace it to source data or cost updates, and confirm they cannot be hidden in the final statements. Use this scenario to establish a reliable count of transactions and a solid margin baseline.

Scenario 2 – Inflation shock: simulate inflated material costs mid-period by adjusting supplier invoices by a defined delta (for example +12% on raw materials and +8% on packaging). Depending on the data source, reconstruct invoices and receipts to ensure the resulting COGS reflects the new cost basis. Compare against statements produced by the ERP and check that rounding does not distort the result. This helps the finance team understand how inflation affects gross margins and returns.

Scenario 3 – FX and cross-border suppliers: apply exchange rate changes to supplier invoices in a multi-currency setup. Verify that COGS changes are calculated in the local currency and then converted correctly, with no double counting in period totals or year-end figures. This scenario tests handling of exchange rate volatility, timing differences, and whether the company’s accounting separates foreign currency adjustments consistently across statements.

Document results in a concise, finance-based dashboard that shows a count of discrepancies, root causes, and recommended fixes. Include a brief narrative so an experienced team can act quickly: they can re-run the same scenarios after changes, check that inflated numbers now align, and confirm that the company’s margins stay good and money remains healthy. Lets the team maintain understanding of COGS drivers, based on real data, and supports doing highly-robust checks that improve accuracy and decision-making across the company.

Key Metrics and ROI Signals Shown in the Demo

Start by tracking three ROI signals in the demo to maximize margins within 90 days: incremental revenue per client, cost-to-serve, and payback period. In a representative staffing pilot, the demo shows a 15% uplift in margins and a 20% reduction in handling time, translating to roughly $1,200 of additional monthly revenue and about $350 saved per order. Use these benchmarks to set crisp targets for their sites and their offerings.

Growth signals appear when you find how changes in the offering mix influence outcomes. The demo ties marketing messages to tangible results: a webpage that highlights bundles increases demo bookings by 28% and lifts lead quality. Whether you run a standalone webpage or a multi-site portal, the same pattern holds: clear value statements convert at higher rates, and that lift compounds as volume grows. This creates opportunity to scale faster with less risk.

In complex scenarios, the demo keeps statements grounded. It compares revenue from selling flagship dishes and add-on offerings, then shows how bundling can boost average order value without inflating headcount. If you track challenges such as seasonality or staffing fluctuations, you’ll see that margins hold when you optimize staffing and menu mix in parallel. The demo also helps you find the best balance between dishes and services to minimize churn.

To make ROI foolproof, the demo includes a scoring rubric that ranks opportunities by payback, scale, and estate impact. It shows how changes in variables such as staffing levels, dish mix, and regional demand affect margins. Whether you manage a restaurant group, a catering arm, or an estate-focused hospitality operation, you can apply this rubric to keep decisions grounded in data.

From the webpage to marketing outreach, the signals cross-link across channels. The demo demonstrates how a precise webpage message can improve conversion and shorten the selling cycle, maximizing ROI. It highlights that even small variation in variables can yield bigger outcomes, and that you should test with a foolproof plan before committing to scale. Use the included dashboards to find opportunities for growth, improve margins, and extend their offerings across menus and services. This approach helps you compare the same ROI signals across different markets and benchmarks against their challenges.

Prep Checklist: Data, Access, and Stakeholders Before Booking

Confirm data ownership and access rights for the demo scope at least 72 hours before booking to avoid last-minute roadblocks.

Identify integrated sources: general sales numbers, merchandise performance, inventory levels, pricing, and customer segments. Define data quality thresholds: completeness 95%, recency 7 days, and accuracy +/- 2%.

Create a data dictionary with field names, formats, units, and update cadence. Decide which datasets are permissible for viewing and which require masking to protect sensitive information.

List stakeholders: data owner, IT liaison, finance lead, merchandising manager, and a sponsor from marketing. Confirm contact details, availability, and decision rights to accelerate the project.

Set access scope: read-only access in the demo, with a sandbox or masked live feed where allowed. Request temporary credentials and ensure an audit trail is in place for tracking.

In negotiating terms, specify data-sharing boundaries, timing, redactions, and value deliverables. Align on the expected result: faster investment decisions and improved profit projections.

Prepare metrics and outputs: generated insights templates and define how success will be measured in numbers, including ranges and balance of revenue and cost metrics.

Following this prep elevates general readiness and strengthens business practices, delivering value and a clearer path to investment decisions that can increase profit and revenue, with greater outcomes.