The story
01
The problem
Management could not see waste and free items in one report.
02
What I found
- They are recorded in two systems that never meet: the till and the waste sheets.
- The two use different items for the same bread; the link between them is the recipe.
- A third loss channel, count adjustments, appeared in neither.
03
What I did
- Built a workbook that recalculates itself.
- Checked it cell by cell against the raw data (476 checks) and against a second path through the database.
Result
One report, and a recording gap the business didn’t know about.