Software Solutions

All food service operations focus on common operational routines, namely purchase ordering, stock management, food production and sales control. As well as other management processes covering due diligence, asset management, policy compliance and health and safety inspections.

This cycle of activities is the same whether your business is involved in high street restaurants, staff catering operations, local government, food production units or any other style of catering business. The variables simply lie in the detail.

Against this background, FDH has always sought to develop and provide software solutions that help control and manage complex management processes, and as such our solutions offer far more than just simply catering management solutions.

Saffron is a suite of software solutions that provides a one-stop shop for all your management and business routines. The Saffron suite of solutions covers all aspects of your business processes from complex purchasing and production plans, to detailed nutritional analysis, as well as handheld technologies for inspection and asset management routines.

Below is the full suite of Saffron Solutions:
 
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Saffron Zest is an Internet based catering management system designed for small, medium and large-scale contract catering companies. Operational sites enter their weekly returns directly to head office over an Internet connection and Saffron Zest then produces management reports for site and head office personnel.

 

  
Saffron Spice is an Internet or PC based catering management software solution that can be used by complex, large-scale operations. Therefore, a caterer may use Saffron Spice from a central location to control all aspects of the catering management routines in a detailed line-by-line process.

 

  
Saffron Nutrition is an advanced nutritional analysis solution that has been designed for all sectors from school meals, care homes to prison catering. The system is an essential aid to ensuring a balanced and varied nutritional menu. Saffron Nutrition will analyse menu plans, cycles and costs, ensuring complete management control of your catering budget, as well proving compliance to nutrient standards.
 

  
Saffron Inspect is a powerful quality auditing tool that allows the capture of multiple checklist based tasks into an easy to use PDA handheld device. Results are then sent to a PC via mobile wireless communication for central management reporting, quality auditing and benchmarking. Improvements in accuracy, speed and reporting capabilities are significant, clearly demonstrating due diligence within your business.

 

  
Saffron Asset Management enables you to keep track of your organisation’s key assets – whether around the office or at remote operational sites. This reduces and replaces paper based systems and manual duplication within your establishment. Saffron Asset represents an effective mobile-based asset tracking system, optionally using barcode or RFID technology to verify when and where items are, where they were bought and recording their present condition.
 

  
Saffron Cascade is a Web based policy, compliance and document management solution. Each employee receives policies from centre automatically, and ensures they have read the policy or document, and has the ability to test compliance and understanding of the policy.
 

  
As well as the above commercial packages, FDH developed TRICAT, Tri Services Catering System a bespoke catering management system for the Armed Forces catering. This system is currently being used in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, British Army and the New Zealand Defence Force.

 
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