Objectives
  • Evaluate the receiving process
  • Explain the use of a product 
   specification reference guide and the 
   buyer’s order form
  • Describe product inspections, 
   discrepancies, product rejections, and 
   credit memos
       Objectives (cont’d.)
  • Summarize the storing process
  • Define formal and informal issuing
  • Describe the use of storeroom 
   requisitions and purchase requisitions
  • Explain the differences between a 
   physical inventory and a perpetual 
   inventory
       Objectives (cont’d.)
  • Identify the hardware and software used 
   with computerized inventory systems
  • Describe the methods used to 
   determine inventory valuation
  • Apply the use of ingredient rooms as 
   they relate to inventory management
      The Receiving Process
   • Operator can exercise greatest control 
    at the receiving dock
    –Where the financial, physical, and legal 
     responsibility for product is transferred
   • Receiving department verifies the order
    –The three “Q’s” of receiving: quality, 
     quantity. and quote
       Product Inspections
   • When setting receiving dock hours
    –Consider kitchen needs and when 
     receiving personnel are available
    –Exceptions may need to be made
   • Conduct efficient, thorough inspections 
    of all products
    –Specification, quality, and quantity