Business Inteligence

Business intelligence tools can be run for a single location, location group, or entire company.

Dashboards: Visual presentation of current data and trends. Create multiple dashboards using customized widgets.

Key Info: Quick snapshot of key metrics for selected period with past period comparisons.

Reports and Charts: Over 190 reports with filtering and sorting options.  Admins control report access and customization.

Exports: Most data can be exported to a CSV file for data mining in Excel.

Benchmarking: Compare various metrics of any single location to those of a selected control group.

Communication

Manager Log: Online log allows managers to add tasks, events, messages, staffing notes, log entries, and checklists.

File Manager: Online document storage available to Ctuit users.

Forecasting: Create simple or complex forecasting tools.

Payroll Validation: Set and apply rules to flag problems and have managers certify payroll before processing.

On The Fly App: Use Ctuit on a phone or tablet to get reports and messages and do functions such as inventory counts.

Ctuit Schedules App: Allows employees to use their phone or tablet to get their schedules, submit schedule requests, trade shifts, send messages, and get announcements. (add-on)

Cost Of Goods Sold – Cost Control

Modules below are optional and have monthly fees.

Accounts Payable: Enter invoices using inventory items or by GL code.  EDI invoicing is available from some vendors. Invoices can be exported to different accounting systems.

Inventory: Maintain inventory items and use for inventory counts, invoice entry, and as ingredients in recipes.

Recipes: Use inventory items and other recipes to build recipes and link to product mix from POS to generate theoretical costs.

Using all 3 COGS modules allows users to get actual costs for the period and compare to theoretical cost to perform ideal analysis and use for manager performance evaluations.

Labor Cost Control

Labor Scheduling: Labor cost control starts with scheduling.

• Templates show how many employees are needed for each job at different times of the day.
• Use Ctuit shift rules and auto build to create templates based on selected metrics applied to forecasts and trends.
• Incorporate sales forecasts to project scheduled labor.
• Variance reports compare scheduled and actual labor.
• Export schedules to POS systems to apply clock-in rules.

Ctuit Schedules APP: allows employees to use their phone or tablet to get their schedules, submit schedule requests, trade shifts, send messages, and get announcements. (add-on)

General Ledger Sales

GL Sales: Enables Ctuit general ledger functions.

• Map POS sales types to GL codes for internal reporting and exporting to accounting systems.
• Sales Journal shows daily breakdown of Sales mapping.
• Accruals and journal entries can be created directly in Ctuit.
• Budgets can be created for selected GL Codes.
• Ops Statement reports show sales, cogs, labor, controllable and noncontrollable expenses for the period and compare to budgets and past history. Daily Ops shows one week.
• General Ledger Reports show detailed tracking of posted entries for each GL code or summary level totals.

 

CTUIT Benefits

Managers, directors, and owners have timely access to operating data in one location, eliminating emailing reports and generating consolidated spreadsheets.

Integration with accounting and payroll streamlines data entry and eliminates duplication and mistakes.

Using ideal analysis to set and enforce operating goals can reduce COGs% from 2% – 7%.

Using forecasting and proactive scheduling can reduce labor% by 5% or higher.

Providing managers with clear and attainable operating targets and a process to measure their performance goes a long way to grow and keep great employees.