Brand-Managed Items

This article is an overview of Brand-Managed Items for Franchisees connected to Brands.

Overview

Brand-managed items allow a franchisee to have purchased items and recipes managed at the brand level. Brand-managed items are created, edited, activated, and deactivated by the brand, then distributed to franchisees. This process reduces the amount of record creation and updating required by the franchisee to maintain brand consistency.

When connected to a brand, the following brand-managed records will be created and updated:

• Purchased Items

• Vendor Items

• Vendors

• Recipes

• Units of Measure

• Item Categories

Franchisees can have both brand-managed and non-managed records; however, they cannot be mixed. This will result in a franchisee's instance being populated with both manually created non-managed records and disseminated brand-managed records for common vendors and units of measure.

Franchisees can connect to multiple brands, and each brand will need to be connected to its own location group. Franchisees will be able to manually edit and create non-managed records. 

Franchisee Responsibility

While brand-managed records are created and updated at the brand level, franchisees will need to ensure that they are mapped and used properly for their organization.

• Purchased Items should be added to item counts and templates.

• Vendor contact information and payment details should be updated.

• Vendor Items should be added to order guides and shopping lists.

• Item Categories should have GL accounts assigned to them.

• Recipes should be mapped to menu items.

Brand-Managed Records

Brand-managed records only maintain select fields on each record type. All fields that are not managed by the brand will be editable by the franchisee.

Purchased Items

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Name

• Measure Type

• Reporting UofM

• Cost Update Method

• Active Status

The following fields may optionally be brand-managed:

• Item Categories 1, 2, & 3

• Item Number

• Description

• Inventory UofM 2 & 3

• UofM Conversions

The following fields will only be updated by the brand when the record is first created, and will then be editable by the franchisee:

• Inventory UofM 1

• Use Actual As Theoretical

Units of Measure

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Equivalent Quantity

• Equivalent UofM

• Name

• Purchasing UofM

• Recipe UofM

Item Categories

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Category Type

• Name

The following fields will only be updated by the brand when the record is first created, and will then be editable by the franchisee:

• Acceptable Variance

Recipes

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Name

• Active

• Measure Type

• Reporting UofM

• Yield Qty

• Yield UofM

• Cost Update Method

• Available in Inventory

• Ingredients

The following fields may optionally be brand-managed:

• Recipe Number

• Description

• UofM Conversions

• Prep Minutes

• Cook Minutes

• Finish Minutes

• Shelf Life Days

• Serving Plate

• Storage Container

The following fields will only be updated by the brand when the record is first created, and will then be editable by the franchisee:

• Portion Qty

• Portion UofM

• Inventory UofM 1

Vendors

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Name

• Entry Method

• Items Available on Invoice

Vendor Items

The following fields are always brand-managed:

• Item

• Vendor

• Purchase UofM

The following fields may optionally be brand-managed:

• Vendor Item Number

• Split UofM

• Vendor Item Name

The following fields will only be updated by the brand when the record is first created, and will then be editable by the franchisee:

• Acceptable Variance %

Brand-Managed Items Setup

Franchisees can connect to brands once the brand(s) have added the franchisee to its Approved Franchisee list. To learn more about the process of being added to the Approved Franchisee list for a brand contact your CSM or R365 Support.

Once added to the Approved Franchisee list for a brand, that brand will appear on the Brand Admin page. Connecting a location group to the brand will create the brand-managed records for the brand. Once linked, any updates made to brand-managed records will automatically flow to the associated location group. 

After brand-managed records are created and/or updated, it is recommended to review these records for proper assignment of GL accounts, inventory templates, shopping lists, and menu items.