A system built for how kitchens really work. Apicbase’s CRP software gives you control over recipes, inventory, procurement, and planning—all in one place.
Our Culinary Resource Planning system helps you run efficient kitchens, cut waste, and meet your financial and sustainability goals
CRP is the inventory and production backbone built specifically for multi-site foodservice operations.
Traditional ERP systems like SAP or Oracle are built for finance, HR, warehousing, and logistics. They work well in settings where inventory is static, like retail.
But foodservice isn’t static.
In a kitchen, stock moves fast. Ingredients arrive in bulk, get portioned, prepped, served, or returned to stock as semi-finished goods, all in a matter of hours.
Control is essential because shelf life is short and margins are tight.
Also, suppliers deliver in crates, boxes, and pallets. Restaurants work in grams, litres, and portions. This disconnect between how stock is received and how it’s actually used in a restaurant kitchen creates blind spots. Waste goes unnoticed. Food costs are hard to manage.
That is where Apicbase comes in.
Generic ERPs track what goes in and out. Apicbase also tracks what happens in between. It links supplier deliveries to actual ingredient usage.
This helps your restaurant teams to control their margins and gives your head office visibility on KPIs.
Already have an ERP? No problem. Apicbase integrates cleanly via API, taking care of your F&B ops and feeding data back into your system.
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Built for finance, logistics, and warehousing |
Built specifically for foodservice operations
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Track stock in units, cases, or pallets
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Also tracks ingredients in grams, litres, or portions
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No concept of recipes or prep steps
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Handles full recipe logic, yields, and production prep
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Focus on inventory in & inventory out
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Maps ingredient transformation (raw → prepped → sold)
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Designed for long shelf-life goods
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Built for perishable, short shelf-life stock |
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Limited to BOMs (Bill of Materials)
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Full support for BOM, dynamic menus, substitutions, and recipe scaling
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Disconnected from kitchen reality
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Syncs recipes, stock, sales, and purchasing
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Requires customisation for food ops
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Ready out-of-the-box for multi-site kitchens and CPUs
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Useful for CFOs and HQ
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Useful for chefs, ops, procurement, and HQ alike
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Apicbase CRP gives your kitchen teams, procurement, and HQ the automation and insights they need to reduce waste, improve margins, and stay in control across every location.
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