ValuWaste® Advantage 4
Culinary Intelligence Software
PC software that produces insightful waste reports - instantly. Advantage makes it simple & easy to spot food waste trends and areas for improvement.
- Overview
- How it Works
- Dashboards
- Reports
- Configuration
- Other Info
ValuWaste Advantage automates reporting on food waste, producing revealing summary information as well as detailed views.
Customers use Advantage to import food waste data collected on a ValuWaste Tracker to their PC and to create reports.
Simple, Easy, Fast Reporting. No Manual Data Entry.
- Connect USB drive to PC and automatically import data from the ValuWaste Tracker instantly without any manual data entry (non-USB Active Sync alternative available)
- See an immediate dashboard snapshot - is waste up or down this week?
- Click to print stored weekly summary reports and a script for an employee meeting
- If desired:
- Review additional reports on-screen
- Examine specific waste transactions
- Forward PDF's to others.
Dashboards make issues visible.
Current food waste v. baseline
Shows immediately whether waste is increasing or decreasing - each week.
Weekly Participation Summary
Shows how many items were recorded - indicates the completeness of the recording for the week.
Weekly Waste Profile
Illustrates how this weeks waste adds up over the course of a full year.
Waste Equivalency Examples
Explains waste volume in dramatic terms that raise employee awareness: based on the pounds we're discarding, we will throw away the equivalent of 27 elephants this year in food waste!
Task Management
What are the food waste management tasks for this week and are they complete?
An extensive range of customizable reports reveal trends & opportunities.
Stored Reports
Advantage ships with pre-configured standard reports. Managers may edit these reports or create new reports and save them for recurring use.Report Collections
All reports can be grouped into one or more groups called "Report Collections." You can batch view, print or PDF reports by collection. For example, a chef might have a group of weekly reports that are different than his or her monthly reports.Report Types
- Food Waste Summary Reports
- Weekly Tabular
- Close-up View
- Comparison
- Detail
- Trend Reports
- Trend Over Time - Overall
- Trend Over Time - Filtered
- By food
- By loss reason
- By station
- By disposition
- Plus other filter dimensions
- Tracker Comparison
- Transaction Reports
- Transaction List with Details
- Filtered Transactions Lists
- By food
- By loss reason
- By station
- Waste type: pre-consumer v. post-consumer
- Plus other filter dimensions
- Participation Reports
- Employee Summary
- Transactions by Employee
- Employee Recognition
- Catering Reports
- Waste by Catering Event Order
- Employee Engagement & Operations Reports
- Staff Meeting Agenda
- SWAT Agenda
- SWAT Notes
- Low Participation / Missing Items
- Data Transfers
- Financial Reports
- Financial Summary
- YOY Comparison
- Budget to Actual Comparison
Advantage manages all system settings
LeanPath waste tracking systems record information about:
- Waste Dimension: A characteristic linked to a wasted item, such as what type of food it is, why it was discarded, what date & time, who threw the item away, etc.
- Waste Type: Any of the options available within a given waste dimension. For example, the food dimension contains numerous food types, each representing a selection available for tracking such as oranges, apples, bananas, grapes. etc.
Dimension & Type Management
- Set & organize waste dimensions and items to track.
- Foods
- Loss Reasons
- Containers
- Users / Team Members
- Stations
- Dispositions
- Dayparts
- Catering Event Orders
- Customer Questions
- Maintain key information
- Multiple price books supported
- Container tare weights
- Establish contextual food pricing adjustment based on loss reasons
Tracker & Site Management
- Manage multiple Trackers within one waste database
- Manage multiple sites within one waste database
- Create menu orders and button names that make tracking clearest for users
- Set defaults for stations, dispositions and dayparts
- Set defaults for pre-consumer v. post-consumer food waste tracking
Support for Paper Tracking
In limited cases, it may not be practical to bring certain items to the Tracker due to heat, distance, or weight (e.g. brewed coffee shuttles). These items are candidates for initial tracking on paper with later entry into ValuWaste Tracker or directly into ValuWaste Advantage. Use Advantage to set-up "recurring transactions" which memorize all the settings for these items, including weight-to-volume conversions. These recurring transactions then appear on the Tracker and in Advantage's "Enter Waste Data" module.
Manage Baselines
Waste reduction measurement requires that you compare current results against an initial baseline. Advantage enables managers to set baselines dynamically (based on average or maximum recordings during specific periods).
Event Clients
Advantage offers the ability to set-up event clients and then track waste by clients and specific events.
