For medium size catering companies, managing your back-end processes is just as important as creating new recipes in order to remain competitive in the industry. With proper software, companies can manage and grow their business, while meeting the needs of their clients on a day to day basis. The right system will include catering specific features as well as all aspects of an ERP system such as accounting, inventory management, and order entry.When it comes to finding the right system, look for specific functionality that simplifies ordering, consolidates invoices, streamlines delivery and allows for custom menu configuration.

1. Event Catering & Business Management Software

2. Why Catering Software?
 For medium size catering companies, managing your back-end processes is
just as important as creating new recipes in order to remain competitive in
the industry. With proper software, companies can manage and grow their
business, while meeting the needs of their clients on a day to day basis. The
right system will include catering specific features as well as all aspects of an
ERP system such as accounting, inventory management, and order entry.
When it comes to finding the right system, look for specific functionality that
simplifies ordering, consolidates invoices, streamlines delivery and allows for
custom menu configuration.

3. A quick look at some of Blue Link’s ERP Event
Catering Management functionality:
 Quotes
 Event Itinerary & Deposit Schedule
 Allergen Management
 Order Configurators
 Sales Orders and Sales Order Review
 Beverage Consumption
 Reporting & Event Documentation

4.  Provide detailed quotes
and all revisions
 Ability to turn a quote
into a Sales Order when
the customer accepts it

5.  Event Itinerary & Deposit Schedule

6.  Allergen Management per Inventory Item
 Limits which products can be added to a quote based on defined allergens

7.  Configurators
 Various menus and
packages are
configured in the
system, based on
specific criteria
 Users can have the
system recommend
combinations of the
available options
 Show target quantity
and actual selected
quantity
 Products selected in
configurator are
inserted into the
quote

8.  System generated optional documents include invitations and itineraries

9.  Quotes can include as much detail as necessary and can be emailed directly to
the customer

10.  The Sales Order includes logistical
information for actually running the event

11.  This example
shows 120 hot
breakfasts with
all the options
and condiments

12.  Record beverage consumption, what was shipped and what was returned

13.  The sales order review dashboard allows
users to take action on multiple orders
and have a high-level view on what
events/orders are coming up

14.  Management of Rental Equipment & Supplies
 Customer Relationship Management
 Accounting Management
 Packaging Labels
 Inventory & Purchasing Control
 Various Reporting Tools
 Job Costing and much more…
Additional Functionality Includes:

15. “Blue Link gives us the best potential for growth. It provides us the structure that we
need, while still allowing us flexibility to create unique menus for our clients.”
- John Valente
Marigolds & Onions

16. For More Information on Blue
Link’s Event Catering & Business
Management Software
Contact Us:
Phone: 1-877-258-5465 x228
Email: LearnMore@BlueLinkERP.com
Website: www.bluelinkerp.com/verticals/event-catering-
software.asp