Warehouses
A central warehouse that supplies your branches — and a branch is not a warehouse.
In MENUVA a central warehouse is a stock location separate from the branch stores, with its own balance and value, and it is never billed as a branch. Goods move from it to the branches by a documented transfer: request, approval, dispatch, in transit, then receipt.
What happens today
Goods are bought once and shared out to the branches, but the system knows one number for the whole business. You cannot say how much is in the warehouse and how much at each branch, and distribution happens by phone call and paper.
What changes with MENUVA
You create a central warehouse — with zones, shelves and bins if you need them — and every branch keeps its own store. A transfer is a document: a request, then approval from a user holding transfer-approval permission at either end, then full or partial dispatch, an in-transit state, then full or partial receipt. The cost travels with the goods, and each step is recorded once even if it is retried.
Stock flow
From the purchase order to the report
01Purchase
A purchase order naming where it is received.
02Warehouse and stock
Receipt enters the location and updates the average cost.
Leaves: Location balance
03The recipe
The dish's ingredients and quantities, costed by the server.
04The sale
The dish sells at the branch.
05Consumption
The ingredients come off the selling branch's stock.
Leaves: Cost of sales
06Reporting
Stock movement and value, and each item's margin.
You know exactly where your stock is, what is in transit, and what it is worth.
A balance and a value per location, not one vague number.
Quantity is never lost or doubled between dispatch and receipt.
A warehouse never adds to your subscription bill.
What it covers
- A separate central warehouse
- Belonging to no branch, with its own balance and value.
- Zones, shelves and bins
- For anyone who needs finer layout inside the warehouse.
- A documented transfer cycle
- Request, approve or reject, dispatch, in transit, receive.
- Partial dispatch and receipt
- Send what is available; receive what arrived.
- Cost travels with the goods
- The receiving branch carries the right cost.
- Company total as a report
- Stock value per location; the total is a report, not a place.
Part of the same workflow
- Stock and cost →MENUVA keeps every item's balance per location — a branch store or a warehouse — and writes every movement to a ledger that cannot be edited. A sale draws its recipe's ingredients from the selling branch, and you can count while you trade.
- Branches →Every branch sits in one account with its own stock, staff and orders. The server keeps an employee out of other branches' data, and management sees every branch and compares them.
- Purchasing →A purchase order per supplier names where it will be received; on receipt the quantity enters that location, the cost updates at what you actually paid, the journal posts, and the order becomes a supplier bill and a payment.
How does multi-branch management work?
Every branch sits in one account with its own stock, staff and orders, and an employee is tied to their branch and cannot reach another branch's data.
The refusal happens on the server, not by hiding buttons. A central warehouse is a stock location separate from the branches and is never billed as one, and goods move by a documented transfer: request, approval, dispatch, in transit, then receipt. Management sees every branch and compares them.
Every MENUVA answer →Is a central warehouse billed as a branch?
No. A warehouse is a stock location, not a selling branch, so it does not count towards the branches your subscription is priced on.
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