Meal Prep Operations
Meal prep production and delivery, planned from one order.
Batch quantities from recipes, stock with expiry dates, and delivery routes for the week.
TL;DR
Batchtab plans batch production for meal prep services: quantities calculated from recipes, perishable stock with batch and expiry tracking, and multi-vehicle delivery routes with time windows. It does not manage customer subscriptions or send customer notifications. Flat license, unlimited users, closed beta.
Meal prep growing pains
The challenges that come with success.
Batch sizing is guesswork
How many chicken breasts for next week? The math is repeated by hand for every order.
Delivery routes don't scale
Fifty deliveries were manageable. Two hundred with four drivers need a plan, not more spreadsheet tabs.
Perishables run out of date
Which batch was cooked first, and what expires on Thursday? The answer lives on a clipboard.
Kitchen and drivers work from different lists
What was produced and what goes on the van are two documents that drift apart.
What Batchtab does for meal prep
Production and delivery for recurring fulfillment.
Batch production planning
Demand from the orders of the production day is turned into recipe-based quantities, prep lists and run plans.
Perishable stock
Batch and lot numbers, expiry dates and FIFO picking for ingredients and finished goods.
Purchasing from demand
Material requirements are calculated from the production plan and turned into purchase orders.
Route optimization
Multi-vehicle routes with delivery time windows and vehicle capacities, calculated with Google's route optimization solver.
Drivers on the phone
Stop lists and proof of delivery with photo and signature in the Work interface, which runs in any modern browser.
Packing with scan
Load manifests per delivery, with items scanned as they are loaded.
The weekly flow
Orders locked
The orders for the production day are final and demand is summed up.
Production planned
Batch quantities and prep schedules are generated from the recipes.
Ingredients purchased
Requirements become purchase orders.
Meals produced and packed
Kitchen works off calculated counts, packing is scanned.
Delivered
Routes optimized for the vehicles, proof of delivery collected.
Does Batchtab fit your meal prep operation?
Batch production, perishable stock and delivery routes. We quote the amount after discussing your needs.
Batchtab is in closed beta, with access limited to a small number of companies. Contact us to discuss whether it fits your needs.
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