Line up stock on hand, scheduled demand, and incoming purchase orders by product and day, so you catch a shortfall before it stalls the floor.
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You've got a heavy cook week on the schedule and a warehouse that's tighter than you'd like. Before you cut a purchase order or promise a customer a date, you want one honest picture: for every ingredient, how much is in the building today, how much the scheduled cooks will burn through, and what's already on a truck headed your way. The demand dashboard lays those three numbers side by side, product by product and day by day, so you spot the day you run short while there's still time to do something about it.
Kitchen+Every row is a product. Every day across the top splits into three reads:
On Hand isn't a fixed snapshot — it's a running balance. Bettr starts each product at today's stock and walks it forward: previous On Hand, minus that day's Need, plus what's Arriving. So a product that reads comfortable on Monday can slip below zero by Thursday, and the row shows you the exact day it turns. When On Hand goes negative, the cell turns red.
The figures read in cases by default. Bettr sizes each product's demand in pounds first, then converts to cases using that product's . Hover any Arriving number to see the purchase orders behind it: the PO, the vendor, the delivery date, and the cases still owed.
Set the date range
Set From and To at the top. The range opens on today through a week out. From can't be earlier than today — the dashboard looks forward, not back — and you can stretch To up to a year ahead.
Read on hand, need, and arriving
Walk each product's row left to right. A day where Need outruns On Hand plus Arriving is a day you come up short; the running On Hand turns red the moment it dips below zero.
Switch the view and the units
Toggle Daily and Weekly to zoom between single days and whole weeks — Weekly totals each product's need across the week. Toggle Cases and LB to read the same numbers as cases or as pounds.
Filter to what you care about
Narrow by product category, or press Negative on hand to keep only the products projected to run out, or Has arriving to keep only the ones with stock inbound. The filters stack.
Drill into a day
Select the Picking link in any day's header to open that day's picking detail, where Bettr nets the day's demand against the kitchen's work in progress to show the cases still left to pull.
On Hand carries across the whole row
Read a product left to right, not one cell at a time. Because On Hand rolls forward day by day, a green start doesn't mean you're clear — a big Need three days out can still pull the balance negative. The dashboard's job is to show you that turn before it happens.
Need isn't a number you type. Bettr reads your production schedule, takes each recipe scheduled for the day, and breaks it down to the raw products it consumes — following every sub-recipe all the way down — then totals the pounds per product. Set the schedule over in Schedule a plan into runs, and the demand lands here. Nothing on the board for a day means no Need that day.
Bettr only has a firm schedule so far out. Past two weeks from today, it stops reading production schedules and switches to : it projects demand from your open sales orders instead. Those columns are tinted and tagged Forecast, and a banner tells you forecast is in play.
Forecast is a projection, not a plan
The far columns lean on orders you haven't scheduled to make yet, so treat them as a heads-up, not a commitment. As those days move inside the two-week window and you schedule the work, the numbers firm up on their own.
The Picking link on any day opens the picking detail — a panel that turns the day's demand into the whole cases you'd actually have to pull. It nets each product's need against the kitchen's , and shows the warehouse Stock beside it so you can see whether the warehouse can cover what's left.
Rows group by the department that runs them. The Real (cases) and Real (LB) columns are the payoff: green when the kitchen's WIP already covers the day, red when you're still short by that amount. This view only reads out the shortfall — to actually stage the stock, create picking orders in Pick ingredients for scheduled production.
A few banners explain a row that isn't adding up:
Both are the dashboard being honest about what it can't compute yet, not an error. Fix the underlying product or recipe and the demand shows up on the next load.