Inventory Analysis
Your inventory screens show where stock stands right now. Inventory Analysis answers a different question: which items is stock control failing on, and what is going wrong with them. It reads the stocktakes and stock movements you have already recorded — nothing extra to fill in — and ranks the items worth your time.
It looks at three separate signals, one per tab:
Waste
How much of an item is thrown away — as a share of everything it consumed, and as money.
Usually means Over-ordering, poor storage, or prep loss.
Stocktake Variance
Whether counts match what the app expects: how often they are flagged, and how badly.
Usually means Counting accuracy, entries that were never recorded, or an uneven routine.
Recipe Accuracy
Whether real usage runs consistently above or below what the recipes predict.
Usually means Either a recipe amount that is wrong, or consumption nobody wrote down.
Each has its own page — Waste, Stocktake variance, Recipe accuracy — and Waste opens first, because it is the one signal that needs no stocktake history to work.
The three are deliberately not combined into one score. They call for different actions: waste is a purchasing and handling problem, variance is a routine problem, and recipe accuracy is either a recipe problem or a record-keeping one.
Who can open it
Inventory Analysis is part of the admin dashboard, so owners and managers use it; staff never see it. A manager sees only the stores assigned to them, and the % of Sales card on the Waste tab is hidden from managers without sales-data permission — everything else works the same for both roles.
Where to find it
Open Inventory from the sidebar. On the store list, Inventory Analysis sits at the top right, next to Master Inventory.
Unlike the rest of the inventory screens, you do not choose a store on the way in. The analysis is cross-store by design: seeing the same item behave differently in two stores is one of the most useful things it can tell you.
Read next
Waste
Rank waste by rate or by cost, and see how much of your booked waste the ranking can account for.
Stocktake variance
Which items are flagged most often, which lost a lot at once, and what it is worth.
Recipe accuracy
Whether an item is being used at the amount its recipes claim — and what to check when it is not.