Pitch deck · Product overview · 8 min read
The problem
Between a supplier's truck and a finished plate, inventory moves through receiving, storage, prep, and waste — and at every one of those steps, a small, unmeasured loss can hide. A yield that's slightly off from a supplier substitution. A portion that's slightly generous during a rush. A cold-chain break that spoils product before anyone notices the temperature log. None of these show up as a single dramatic event. They show up, weeks later, as a food-cost variance with no obvious single cause — because the cause was never one event, it was a pattern across inventory movement that nobody was tracking end to end.
The product
Motus tracks inventory from the moment it's received to the moment it's sold or wasted — giving operators the movement-level visibility that a monthly count and a COGS percentage can't provide on their own.
Key features
Receiving to plate, tracked continuously
- Every receipt, transfer, prep conversion, and waste event logged against the item it affects
- Supplier yield tracked per delivery, not assumed to match the spec sheet
- Portion-level usage cross-referenced against POS sales to catch drift as it happens, not at the next physical count
Cold-chain and quality monitoring
- IoT temperature sensor integration for refrigeration and cold storage
- Automatic alerts on excursions, with the duration and likely affected inventory flagged immediately
- Full compliance log for health inspections and internal audits
Procurement intelligence
- Supplier pricing and yield history available at the point of a purchasing decision, not buried in old invoices
- Volume rebate and contract term tracking, so a promised discount doesn't get missed at reconciliation
- Multi-supplier comparison for the same SKU across regions and time
Waste, made visible instead of assumed
- Waste logged by cause — spoilage, prep error, over-production, customer return — instead of one undifferentiated line
- Store and item-group level waste patterns surfaced automatically, not discovered by a manager who happens to notice
- Ties directly into the same portion-drift detection that flags food-cost variance elsewhere in the platform
Integrates with
- POS — sales data reconciles against inventory movement automatically
- Numerus — COGS ledger entries stay tied to actual physical movement, not a periodic estimate
- Manus — staffing gaps get checked against the waste and yield patterns that tend to follow them
- Nexus — supplier and delivery data joins the same timeline as everything else
Why Zentallio built this
A monthly inventory count can tell you that something went missing. It can't tell you when, where in the process, or why. Motus exists to close that gap — so the answer to "why did food cost move" is traceable to an actual event, not a shrug and a re-order for next month.
See it on your data
Motus is built to work with your existing suppliers and receiving process — no requirement to change vendors to get movement-level visibility.
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