TrakNOW - Nutrition on the Web : Nutrient Standard Menu Planning : Healthy Meals Resource System

<-- View Information for a Different Software Program

Chart information updated	September 2008
Contact Information	PCS Revenue Control Systems, Inc. 560 Sylvan Ave. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 Phone: (800) 247-3061; (201) 568-8300 Fax: (800) 854-3387; (201) 568-8381 E-mail: weCare@pcsRCS.com Web Address: http://www.pcsRCS.com
Current Version/Release Date	5.0.3.4 - July 2008
Child Nutrition database version	CN12
Frequency of Updates	Twice a year
Software Costs	Starting as low as $995 for a single user nutrition/production module including USDA Recipe Database yield adjusted for nutrition analysis and including food component contributions for traditional menu planning, including first year support, maintenance and web hosting. Pricing is flexible depending on the number of modules (Integrated Inventory, Ordering, Productions Records, Warehouse, Central Kitchen, etc.), sites and users. Package discounts apply to purchase of multiple modules, sites and users at the same time. ASP options – web-hosted monthly rental and rent to purchase.
Name of Resellers	N/A
Market Focus/ Intended type of Food Service	School Food and Nutrition Services looking for web based systems with an emphasis on seamless integration between nutrition, menu planning, costing, inventory, purchasing, production, central production and central distribution, and point of sale.
Other services	N/A
Support:
Training/ Costs	Training costs vary depending on the size of the installation and whether training is on-site or web-remote. Training by the hour is available, as well as discounts for pre-paid blocks of hourly training. Periodic training Webinars are available at no charge.
On-line support	Yes, included in annual maintenance fee
Phone Support	Yes, included in annual maintenance fee
Referrals	References for your size district and type of operation or in your region are available on request
Number of School Districts Using Software	50+
Demonstrations Available:	Yes. Webinars, web-remote demos by appointment, on-site demonstrations, and demonstrations at conferences.
Other Support	N/A

Hardware and Software Needed:
Operating System	Workstation: Windows 2000, XP, Windows Vista Server Client: MS Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader Windows Server 2003, MS SQL 2005 with Reporting Services, if self-web-hosted by customer. Managed web-hosting services are available.
Platforms	Workstation: Any PC running 2000, Windows XP or Vista with Internet Explorer 6.0 or above MAC with Intel Processor with Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
Memory Requirements	Workstations: 512 MB RAM for Windows 2000, XP and 2 GIG RAM for Windows Vista Server: 4 GIG RAM
Optimal hardware specifications	Workstation: 2.4 GHz Pentium or equivalent, 1 GIG RAM. Hard drive not relevant as this is a web application, running in a web browser Server: Specifications on request
Minimal hardware specifications	Workstation: 450 MHz Pentium or equivalent. 512 MB RAM. Hard drive not relevant as this is a web application, running in a web browser. Server: Specifications on request

Additional Features:
Point of Sale	Yes, FASTrak Module
Free & Reduced Applications	Yes, RIGHTrak Module
Food Production	Includes ingredient, recipe and menu management, forecasting, state formatted Production Records for both NSMP and Traditional, and nutrition analysis on actual served, left-over management, and auto depletion of inventory based on usage, allergen notes, HACCP temperature targets and monitoring, catering and special programs. Integration with POS counts. Central Production: “Push” and “pull” systems. “Push” – Base kitchens automatically combine production requirements for satellite kitchens based on forecasts and print pick and transfer documents. “Pull” – Sites create supply requisitions to central kitchen and central kitchen processes order requirements, creates pick slips and shipping documents.
Inventory	Inventory Module includes commodity, bid and supplier management, multiple pack and purchase units per vendor, physical counts and valuation.
Precosts Recipes & Menus	All modules when included with the Inventory Module facilitate costs flowing through the system seamlessly, allowing “pre” and “post” cost analysis of recipes and menus.
Procurement	Ordering and Auto-Ordering Modules: Includes vendor ordering, central authorization via requisitions, supply orders to warehouses, and transfers. Plus, ordering based on par level and/or menu forecasts. And, processing of supply requisitions into transfers, picks, staging, truck routes, shipping tickets, add-on orders, returns, missing item detection.
Personnel Management	N/A
Financial Management	REPORTrak – Business Intelligence and Decision Support Module, with Dashboards Complete integration of all POS, Free and Reduced and Nutrition/Production/Inventory modules’ historical data via a data warehouse and OLAP viewer for instantaneous charting and graphing.
Other Modules	iSCAN Free & Reduced Application Scanning PAMS – Parent Account Management System -Web Pre-payment NetCASH Kiosk payment HACCP monitoring for temperatures
Combined Breakfast & Lunch Analysis	Yes
USDA Recipes for Schools Included	Yes (Yield adjusted for nutrition analysis with copy function allowing user to display production instructions and apply production yield adjustments for ordering).
Additional Databases Available	Yes, downloads from industry databases are supported.
How do you ensure users receive the latest update of the software?	An appointment is made with every user to review new features prior to updating their systems with the latest software. The user is able to preview the new features in their own test environment prior to the update of their live system.
When the Child Nutrition database is updated, is there a cost to the school district to receive the updated database software?	No charge. All updates of the CN database are covered by the annual maintenance and support fees already paid.
Is there a mechanism to look at information retrospectively, e.g. old recipes, menus served in the past, or to retrieve old documents?	All historical data is available on-line, plus history is available in the REPORTrak data warehouse, summarized above in the Financial section.
Last evaluated & approved by USDA	October 2008