One List for the APMC Yard
Three functions between Friday and Sunday. The buyer leaves for the yard at four in the morning with a list written on the back of an old menu sheet.
From the count to the quantity
The closing count and the approved menu give the quantities, item by item, from your own recipes. Nobody multiplies in his head at midnight, and nobody buys for four hundred when the family has settled at three hundred and twenty.
Combined the way you buy
Across the week, not per function
Onions for three functions become one quantity on one line. That is how the yard sells and how your buyer thinks.
Split by where you buy
Vegetables at the yard, groceries from your regular wholesaler, milk and curd from the dairy, chicken from the shop that knows you. One list per supplier.
In the units you actually use
Quintals, kilos, litres, dozens, bundles. Not a unit an accountant chose.
What the last one cost you
The quantity and the rate bought for a similar function sit on that earlier event. Your buyer leaves with a figure he can argue from at the yard.
Where the plan meets the yard
The count will change again
It always does, usually on the last evening. The quantities are worked out again from the new count, and the buyer is told what changed rather than being handed a fresh list.
It does not buy, and it does not haggle
Your buyer still goes to the yard and still argues over the rate. What he carries is a list that matches the menus, and what comes back is entered against the events it was bought for.
Frequently asked questions
Can the list be sent to the buyer on WhatsApp?
Yes, from the office, as a message or a printed sheet he carries. Most buyers want paper at four in the morning.
What if we buy more than the list says?
What was actually bought is entered with its rate and the events it belongs to. The difference between the plan and the purchase is the part worth looking at on Monday.
Does it keep a stock register for our godown?
No, and it is better to say so. What it holds is the quantity each event needs and what was actually bought against it. Counting the rice and oil left in the godown stays with your store man, because a daily register is more work than most kitchens will sustain.
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