TRICAT - Feeding the Forces with Technology

 
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.
 
TRICAT is an Access based site-deployed solution with the ability to cover the full range of activities from stock management, supply chain procurement, recipe and menu planning, kitchen production routines, sales and meal uptakes and full financial reporting.
 
TRICAT also has powerful reporting capabilities, designed to match and enhance the specific needs of military catering activities, and covering many special accounting policies including Daily Messing Rates(DMR),endurance capabilities.

The Royal Navy has used TRICAT since 1998, where the system has been installed on ruggedised laptops and local area networks across the fleet, including submarines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the supply chain to remote locations.

More recently, the Defence Food Services Intergrated Project Team has streamlined the different Catering Acounting Provisioning systems used by the Royal Navy, Army and RAF and filled the gap for a land-based operational system, by rolling out TRICAT across the three services. Currently the system is deployed across 320 sites including Gibraltar, Iraq and Afghanistan and another 100 sites are soon to be added such as Belize the Falkland Islands, Canada and Brunei.

With TRICAT, the accuracy of Out of Barracks catering has been improved significantly. For instance, historically there would be a tendency for operational locations to over-order, which in-turn led to inefficiencies and extra costs throughout the supply chain, including transport and the need for additional storage facilities. Through TRICAT, the process of ration ordering has become automated, allowing staff to order only those rations required by the menu cycle based upon numbers fed.

Links to Case Studies:
 
New Zealand Defence Force Update

Royal Navy Case Study

 
 
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