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Make your operation more efficient, more productive, more profitable with ChefTec xt5. Building on over 45,000 customers and over 20 years of experience creating software solutions for the foodservice industry, ChefTec xt5 takes the best back office software on the market and makes it better!

Over 70% of ChefTec Software development is based on customer feedback and requests for functionality. In this latest release, ChefTec xt5 has product enhancements that will make your life easier!

Harnessing the power of Microsoft's Windows 10 (and Windows 8.x and 7) technology, ChefTec xt5 provides powerful performance, greater scalability, and exceptional reliability.

ChefTec xt5 offers all-new features and functions, including:

Installation

• Works with Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8.x, and Windows 7 operating system.
• SQL Server 2014 Express ships as default (or use your own MS SQL Server).
• Downloading and Activation from the internet allows for instantaneous receipt of purchased ChefTec products rather than waiting for a CD in the mail.

NEW Quicker, Easier Data Entry and Searching Capabilities

• "Alerts & Reminders" (ARM) module enhanced to include the ability to schedule and set repeat reminders.
• Quicker deletion of multiple recipes.
• "Order" lists changed for displayed of easier selection and analysis.

ENHANCED Inventory Control Functions

• UNICODE functionality for displaying inventory items for non-Latin based languages, such as Russian and Chinese.
• Graphical display of inventory counts by inventory item with configurable date range.
• Seamless ordering and invoicing EDI interfaces for Pratts Wholesale Limited, FreshPoint, Maines Paper & Food Services, and United Natural Foods (UNFI) to existing EDI interfaces.
• Additional tare weight capability.
• Auto-import (using scheduling) inventory pricing information from all EDI interfaces.
• "Par levels" added on the "Inventory List" as well as in the par screens.
• Ability to "receive" items directly on received orders and see discrepancies. This functionality is also available in ChefTec Mobile.
• Enhanced "Key Inventory" functionality allowing one to work with just key inventory items in the physical locations as well as print "Physical Inventory Worksheets" by just the key inventory designation.
• Ability to look at past sales with historical pricing, rather than last price.
• Schools, colleges and non-profit businesses can account easily for donated inventory items.
• Automatic selection of lowest purchase price when a bid does not exist, when ordering from bids.

ENHANCED Ordering and Bidding Features

• New "Receiving" screen which displays received items from Mobile Solutions (Tablet) and compares these to ordered products and invoiced products. Received amount may also be entered manually. Exceptions to the order, such as "shorted" or "rejected" can be indicated on the Tablet which will then appear in the "Receiving" screen.
• "Order" lists changed for better selection and analysis.
• Automatic selection of lowest purchase price when a bid does not exist, when ordering from bids.
• Easily identify how orders were originally generated - e.g. by lowest bid, template, lowest purchase price, etc.
• Show and print a bid price on an order if there is no previous price to display.
• Modified "Inventory On-hand" report to allow for customization of displayed column information.
• Vendor information can be displayed on "Order List."
• Enhanced criteria selection for "Shopping List" report.
• Clearer display on the "Par Entry" screen depending on "Used For" selection.
• Easier and quicker import of new bids.
• Ability to automatically assign all bid dates to the same date.
• Addition of bid history.

Nutrition and Food Safety

• New and improved "HACCP Information" screen for enhanced capabilities and easier data-entry.
• Complete recipe HACCP information on printed production recipes in addition to inventory item HACCP information.
• Display of all inventory items assigned to specific HACCP categories.
• Display of "Nutrition Facts" for serving size in addition to portion size.
• New-style USDA/FDA "Nutrition Facts" label.
• New enhanced "Nutrition Facts" label with additional fields for company logo, selling price, user-defined instructions, bar code, and batch number.
• Multiple-portion functionality can display two nutrition facts labels side-by-side.
• Create and print nutrition labels for multiple portion sizes for a recipe.

Physical Inventory

• Graphical display of inventory counts by inventory item with configurable date range.
• New Managed Tasks for Mobile Solutions to manage multiple inventories and multiple employees. Managers can monitor progress of inventory taking from start to finish.
• For Mobile Tablet users: liquor inventory items can now display appropriate "bottle shape" graphics for partial counting.

ENHANCED Recipe & Menu Costing Functions

• UNICODE functionality for displaying recipe names for non-Latin based languages, such as Russian and Chinese.
• Recipes can be written with multiple portion sizes.
• Implemented "Q Factor" where an extra cost may be determined as the percentage of a recipe.
• "Price History" enhanced to allow for secondary pricing of recipes. Secondary pricing can be used to represent periods, such as "Happy Hour Price" or "Lunch Price."
• New table stores hourly wages and employee names, and allows labor to be included in recipe costing.
• A new screen allows users to see all recipes that have been previously sent. In this screen, the user may either schedule "Send Again" or "Cancel" the original send (which will remove the appropriate list of recipes from sending.)

ENHANCED Requisition & Transfer Features for CorTec

• On "Requisition Template" - ability to set method of pricing requisitions. For example, "markup of requsition price", "markup of last purchase", and "standard requisition price."
• Implemented receipt of requisition to allow user who creates a requisition know that their order has been received.
• Requisition report detailing requisitions by period for one or more inventory items. This includes the number of times an item has been requisitioned in addition to the total value.
• Capability of creating requisitions on a Mobile Solutions Tablet.
• New and improved display of requisition and production screens showing detail of which individual and master requisitions generated a Master Production Sheet.
• Added ability to forward a received requisition or aggregated requisitions to another profit center.
• Ability to prevent the sending of requisitions (or order) if quanitites or units are missing.
• Implemented concept of "Areas" within profit centers such as "Deli," "Bakery," "Meat Counter,, etc., where items can be "requisitioned from" and then where product can be "transferred to."
• New "Requisition Costs by Area" report displays items requisitioned by area with dollar amounts detailed for each area.
• Added ability to specify a profit center as a commissary of central purchasing.
• Ability to specify "Area" on a requisition to be sent, such as "Deli Counter" or "Cheese Counter," for localized delivery of product.

NEW Event Management Module

• Fully integrated with recipe and menu costing functionality to create and cost banquet and event menus.
• Detailed quotes and final invoices can ow be generated.
• Ability to include staff costs, rental, and other non-food items.
• Manage client and venue information.
• Interfaces with Caterease and other catering packages.
• Ability to reserve durable items, such as chairs and tables, required for future events. Added calendar which shows the reserved items.

ENHANCED Lot Tracking Module

• Batch number information added to the "Lot Tracking" screen.
• "Alert" added to indicate when the shelf life of an inventory item has expired.
• "Batch Number Labels" can be created using several different models of Zebra printers.
• Ability to add Lot and Batch Numbers on Requisitions.
• Allows for tracking of raw ingredients that have been recalled.

ENHANCED Waste Tracking Module

• Implemented ability to print "Waste Report" by date ranges to get consolidated costs per station.
• More features allowing tracking and elimination of waste for a greener operation.
• Schools, colleges and non-profit businesses can now account easily for donated inventory items.

ENHANCED Production Management Module Features

• Ability to see which requisitions generated a "Master Production" sheet.
• Ability to print HACCP information on production recipes.
• Automatically update requisition transfer quantities based on actual production numbers.

ENHANCED System Quality Control and Audit Features

• More System Administrator rights for limiting printing and saving reports.
• Implemented UNICODE support to allow for every character in all languages.
• Time-saving feature allowing auto-activation for user-access to ChefTec on initial login.
• Ability to specify different languages for different profit centers.
• Ability to multi-select tasks for groups when setting rights for quicker setup.
• Increased delineation of specific function for user rights.
• New user rights for placing orders or sending requisitions.
• Messages automatically prompt users when data changes have an impact in other areas of ChefTec, like when changing an existing unit conversion.
• Report added to track new inventory items that have been added to ChefTec - use this to avoid duplicate inventory items.
• Added "rights" to limit users and groups of users.

Imports/Exports

• EDI interfaces added for both UNFI and Maines Paper & Food Service.
• Handles multiple invoices in single file for Performance Foodservice EDI.
• Ability to auto-import inventory pricing information from any EDI interfaces.
• Auto-importing EDI can be scheduled using the Windows task manager.
• Import property added to create one exception for all imports or an exception file for each import.
• Added prompt to notify a user of duplicate invoices if importing will overwrite the existing invoice.
• Increased number of exports that can be scheduled.

Reports

• Ability to create and print nutrition labels for multiple portion sizes for a recipe.
• Added "Rejected" and "Shorted" exceptions when receiving orders.
• "Discrepancy" report shows what has been ordered and what has been received.
• "Bid History" report displays a history of inventory item bid prices for each food purveyor.
• "Requisition" report detailing requisitions by period for one or more inventory items. This includes the number of times an item has been requisitioned in addition to the total value.
• New "Recipe - Nutrient Detail" report includes a breakdown of each ingredient in a recipe showing the contribution of nutrients towards the total recipe. The report also shows the "Nutrition Facts" label, the recipe portion information, ingredients, and procedure.
• Additional information added to the "Shipping Manifest" report: customer number, master requisition number, and area.
• Added Requisition "Area" to reports: "Aggregated Requisition Picklist," "Requisition List," "Summary of Requisitions," and "Requisition In."
• "Tracking #" added to the "Summary of Invoices" report.
Added ability to create and print nutrition labels for multiple portion sizes for a recipe.
• Report Manager property added to exclude saleable items without PLU on the "All Recipe Costings, Abbreviated Listing" report.
• User customized labels can now be displayed on the "Invoice" report.
• Separate logos can be added for profit centers, departments, and companies to display on reports.

FOR Caterers and Event Centers

• Ability to prepare and send event invoices to customers.
• Caterease import: Banquet Event Order (BEO) directly into Production Sheets in ChefTec. (Requires v11 of Caterease).

FOR Mobile Solutions Users

• Requisition on a tablet from anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection. Information entered on the tablet automatically syncs with ChefTec on a desktop to update inventory numbers and generate reports.
• New large-size calendar for ease of use for inventory selection.
• Added "Rejected" and "Shorted" exceptions when receiving orders.

Ease and Flexibility to keep your data happy...

• Ability to merge multiple inventory items at one time.
• Ability to purge data for 'inactive' inventory items.
• Identify 'user added' units by color.
• Specifiable date ranges for purging data such as "delete all inventory extensions prior to 2011".

Also Available Are These Fine Products!

With ChefTec xt5 you can also take advantage of the very best add-on products and services from Culinary Software including:

	Mobile Solutions - Add mobility to your operation with hand held solutions from CSS. ChefTec Mobile Solutions is an add-on to any version of CorTec or ChefTec and comes complete with mobile hand held hardware and ChefTec Mobile Solutions modular software. There are several hardware options to meet all needs, including tablet hardware, compact specialized hardware, and bar code scanning technology. ChefTec Mobile Solutions was specifically designed to integrate with CorTec and ChefTec on the desktop utilizing WiFi to communicate. Mobile Solutions is an ideal application for operations looking to streamline and speed up inventory control.
	Remote Notifications - Remote Notifications provides the ability to trigger multiple notifications via printer, text message, or email when specific events occur.

Upgrades to ChefTec xt5 start at only $495. Email us or call 800-447-1466 for more information.

Some of the above features and functionality only available in CorTec Enterprise and/or ChefTec Ultra and/or ChefTec Plus. Ask your sales representative for details.

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