Butcheries in Poster allows you to transform one type of ingredients in stock into another. For instance, this feature can be used to butcher a fish carcass into parts, process yesterday's bread into croutons, and powdered sugar into syrup.
Let's take a closer look at how to butcher products.
Butcheries are available in the Pro plan.
If you purchase a whole fish and butcher it into parts, record this in Poster: add the supply of the ingredient "Salmon Carcass" and process it into "Salmon Fillet" and "Salmon Bones" for broth.
To butcher a "Salmon Carcass":
Go to Inventory → Butcheries in the management console.
Click Add.
Set the butchery time and date.
In the Primary items choose the ingredient for butchery: 'Salmon Carcass’.
Enter the quantity for butchery and choose a storage location for deduction.
In the Final items field, choose the ingredients obtained after butchering the item, such as fillets, bones, innards, trimmings, and head.
For each, select a storage location and set a cost percentage. For example, if the fillet is more expensive, assign it a higher percentage than the other products.
💡 Add new ingredients without leaving the butchery screen. Start typing the name and click Add Ingredient.
Click Save.
☝ Total Cost Ratio of the Final items must be exactly 100%. If not, the butchery cannot be saved, because the total cost of the butchered items cannot be higher or lower than the total cost of the carcass. If there's a cost difference after butchery, consider adding an item like 'Fish Waste' to the Final items to balance it out.
Once the butchery is saved, a whole salmon is deducted from inventory, and new ingredients appear in the selected storage location.
💡 If part of the fish is lost during butchery, record such losses by adding ’Fish Waste’ to the Final items and then making a manual stock deduction.
Add butcheries to convert ingredients into another: bread into breadcrumbs, sugar into powdered sugar, and almonds into almond flour.
To convert 'Bread' into 'Breadcrumbs’:
Go to Inventory → Butcheries in the management console and click Add.
Set the butchery time and date.
In Primary items choose the item you want to convert: ’Toast Bread'.
Enter the quantity for butchery and choose a storage location for deduction.
In the Received Products field, add the desired product, such as breadcrumbs. Select a warehouse and specify the cost percentage.
In Final items, choose the ingredients obtained after butchering the item, such as 'Breadcrumbs' or 'Croutons'.
Choose a storage location where butchered items are being placed and their quantity.
💡 Add new ingredients without leaving the butchery screen. Start typing the name and click Add Ingredient.
Click Save.
💡 Butcher any items in stock — ingredients, products with modifiers, or manufactured dishes and preparations.
Cost and quantity of the butchered items in stock
View the quantity and cost of received products in the Inventory → Ingredients Movements.
The cost of butchered dishes and preparations will be recalculated by the weighted average method including the new batches and previous supplies or manufactures.
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