Turn a scheduled production day into department-grouped picking orders that pull each recipe's ingredients out of the warehouse.
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It's the afternoon before a heavy cook day. Tomorrow's board puts a marinara, a base sauce, and a spice blend in the Production room, and none of it starts until the raw ingredients are out of the warehouse and staged where the crew can reach them. Rather than eyeball each recipe and total the pounds by hand, open Schedule picking: it reads that day's schedule, works out how much of each product the scheduled recipes will draw, subtracts what the kitchen already holds, and turns the shortfall into picking orders the warehouse can fill. Kitchen+
Pick a Schedule date at the top of the screen and Bettr pulls every recipe your plans have scheduled for that day, scales each recipe's ingredient list — both products and sub-recipes — by the quantity scheduled, and totals the pounds per product. The rows arrive grouped by the department that runs them, so the Production room's demand sits apart from the Bakery's.
The date defaults to tomorrow, since that's the day you usually stage for. If a date has nothing on the board, the screen reads No product demand for this schedule date — that's the schedule talking, not an error. Set the running order and quantities first over in Order your production schedule, and the demand shows up here.
Pick the schedule date
Set Schedule date to the day you're staging for. The demand table rebuilds from the recipes scheduled for that date, grouped by department.
Choose the warehouse locations
Use the Locations filter to say which warehouse stock counts. With All locations left selected, every stock location is counted for the figures on screen — but to actually create an order you must tick at least one specific location, so Bettr knows where to pull from.
Read the numbers and set quantities
Each row ends in a Quantity to pick field, seeded with the whole cases the row says you're short. Leave it, or type your own number — cases, not pounds. Rows the kitchen already covers seed to zero and stay out of the order.
Set the expected picking date
Set Expected picking date — the day you want the warehouse to have the stock pulled. It defaults to today and can't be earlier than today.
Create the picking order
Select Create picking order. Bettr creates one per department, then drops you on the picking queue where the floor works them.
Two things gate the button
Create picking order stays disabled until you've ticked at least one location and at least one row has a quantity of one case or more. You also need permission to create and approve pickings; without it, the screen tells you so and the button stays off.
The table carries a row per product, and the columns walk from what the day needs to what you'll actually pull:
A row can show demand but still sit out of the order, tagged with an orange note:
If you ask for more cases than the selected locations hold, Bettr doesn't refuse — it shows you exactly what's short. A confirmation lists each product with the cases requested, available, and missing, and offers to Create partial picking.
A partial picking pulls only what's there
Confirm the partial and Bettr picks every case it can find and leaves the rest short — the picking covers part of the need, not all of it. It tells you the order came up partial as it's created, so you know to top it up once more stock is in the building.
Every order Schedule picking creates is a normal picking in the picking queue, one per department, ready for the floor to work. When Bettr fills each line it reaches for stock by , pulling the earliest-dated lots at the locations you chose. The kitchen WIP the screen netted against demand is the same on-hand you manage under WIP inventory — staging here just tops it up from the warehouse.