Horizon Software | 2008 Users Group Conference

Food Service Director's Track

101: MealpayPlus Online Prepayment System

Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, this class will no longer be offered a second time on Thursday, November 13.

Everything a director or upper management team needs to know about Horizon's powerful online prepayment solution.

Marketing tools and tips to increase parent participation
Implementation planning and what to expect in 2009
Powerful online reporting for your central office staff
Using FastLane LIVE for payment and balance updates virtually in real time

102: Horizon's Healthy Vending Solutions

This session is geared for the food service director or central office management team. See for yourself how a Horizon Smart Enabled vending machine can increase participation while potentially reducing your costs.

Connect all Smart Enabled vending machines to a central POS location: vend reimbursable meals and a la carte items
Increase participation: place Smart Enabled vending machines outside cafeterias, near buses or anywhere participation is low
Expand service cost effectively: serve more reimbursable meals without a cashier

103: Student Nutrition & Wellness

The need for accurate, comprehensive nutrition and activity education for your students has never been more crucial. For the Food Service Director or Central Office management team, this class offers discussion on products and software functionality that contribute to Horizon's Healthy Child Campaign, designed to fight childhood obesity.

Educating children: Horizon's Student Nutrition Guide (formerly HealthSmart)
Involving parents: Tracking individual student purchases through MealpayPlus and Healthy Vending
Empowering your staff:
- Analysis of planned menus vs. actual production
- Educating kitchen staff on service and safety
- Effective inventory management (FIFO)
- Safe and accurate food production and storage
- Tracking food service employee assignments

104: Preventing Loss

For the Food Service Director or central office management team, this class will cover the specific Horizon reports and software features which can be used to identify and prevent potential loss in your food service operation.

Examine common ways that districts experience losses
Discuss proven management processes for prevention

105: K-12 Audit Preparations

For the food service director or central office management team, this class is an overview of how to prepare for and pass the CRE audit and SMI audit using Horizon's software.

What reports to review and what information to have on hand
What to expect during an audit
What reports auditors will want to see
What parts of the Horizon system the auditors will review

FastLane Suite Track

201: FastLane Suite for Central Office

For the central office staff, this class covers the functionality of Central Office FastLane, VBOSS Free & Reduced and Accountability.

Overview of central office operations
Keeping centralized control of student data
Centralized POS menu setups, pricing and maintenance
Free & Reduced application look-up and general Accountability functionality
Automated communications and database maintenance
Overview of POS meal count and revenue reports

202: Site FastLane & POS Hardware

For anyone involved in supporting Site FastLane POS in your district, this class discusses the day-to-day cashier and manager functions related to the FastLane Point of Service software and peripherals.

Overview of POS cashiering and manager's end-of-day operations
Implementing Horizon's best practices in your cafeteria to increase line speed and maximize productivity
Discuss and demonstrate new features that can be utilized to enhance your cashiers' efficiency
Use and maintenance of touch screens, PIN pads, biometrics and scanners

203: FastLane Suite Technical Support Class

Separate sessions will cover support items for the VBOSS and OneSource.

For the front office Project Manager and IT support, this class discusses the most common technical support items involved with FastLane POS and the Free & Reduced and Accountability modules in VBOSS. Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions.

Top FastLane Suite support issues from Fall 2008
Cashier and manager support
Communications FOH to BOH
VBOSS F&R support
VBOSS Accountability support

204: FastLane Suite Reports

For the experienced FastLane user, this popular class covers many existing reports in Site FastLane and Central Office FastLane along with their counterparts in VBOSS Accountability.

Special attention will be placed on the Accountability Cashier Report and State Claims
Comparison of available reports in FastLane and VBOSS
Added reporting in recent versions

205: FastLane Suite Project Manager
Level 2

By popular request, this class is designed for the front office project manager. Go beyond the day-to-day POS operations and learn some of the more advanced features and lesser known options available in FastLane, Free & Reduced and Accountability.

VBOSS Track

301: VBOSS Inventory, Order Processing & USDA Mgt.

For the back office project manager and central office personnel, this class will discuss functionality contained in the Inventory, Order Processing and USDA Commodity Management modules.

Discuss how these core modules are designed to work together to maintain accurate control of your inventory
Taking accurate physical inventory counts
Stock transfers and inventory adjustments
Placing accurate orders and efficient receiving
Allocating USDA commodities to your sites
Standing orders, manual receiving, backorders and substitutions

302: VBOSS Menu Planner & Production

For the back office project manager, district dietician or central office personnel, this class goes into detailed setup of your recipes, using your inventory items as ingredients. Horizon's best practices are applied to combine recipes and individual stock items into menu plans that are then organized into cycles and scheduled for production.

Using recipes within recipes
Creating production records to maintain perpetual inventory
Tracking leftovers and other substitutions
Menu plan order processing / forecasting
Customized nutrient analysis tables
Analysis of planned menus vs. actual production

303: VBOSS Back of House Technical Support Class

Separate sessions will cover support items for the FastLane and OneSource products.

For the back office Project Manager and IT support, this class discusses the most common technical support scenarios involved with the VBOSS back office modules. Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions.

Top VBOSS back office support issues from Fall 2008
Best practices/BOH setup
General VBOSS database support and maintenance

304: Data Imports & Exports

For the experienced Project Manager and IT support staff, an in-depth discussion on best practices for providing clean data imports into Horizon's software and various options for exporting Horizon data to other applications for custom reporting and analysis.

Assessing data prior to import
Best practices and import options
Pre and post import comparisons
Exporting Horizon data: Common scenarios and solutions

305: Reducing Food Cost & Improving Return on Investment

By popular demand – A special session geared for food service directors and central office management teams to discuss proven methods for lowering food costs and improving your ROI with Horizon's products and services.

Horizon's OneSource
Catering Operations
Menu plan forecasts for placing accurate orders
Bid Analysis & Procurement
Asset Management
Options for tracking employee labor

OneSource Track

401: OneSource Front of the House

For both central office staff and kitchen managers, this session will unveil POS operations and configurations in Horizon OneSource.

Enhanced POS menu button layouts
Improved ease of use for your cashiers
Maintain central control of student data, menu layouts and merge letters
Efficient Free & Reduced application processing and maintenance
Reliable communications between sites and central office all day long!
Benefit from more POS features inspired by our non-K-12 markets

402: OneSource Inventory & Procurement

For the back office project manager and kitchen managers, an in-depth training session on the core Back of the House operations offered in Horizon OneSource.

Better control of physical inventory
Improved interface for placing accurate orders
Groups, par levels and re-order quantities
Receiving, stock transfers and returns
Delivery templates

403: OneSource Menu Planner & Production

Intended as a follow up for the "402: OneSource Inventory" class, this session covers the powerful menu planning and nutritional analysis tools offered in Horizon OneSource.

Build detailed recipes, menu plans and schedule cycle menus for your sites
Use the analysis tools to keep menus in compliance with your Wellness Program
Use scheduled menus to create order forecasts, create production records and maintain perpetual inventories
Menu plan ordering to eliminate "guesstimates"
Powerful reporting available at the sites and central office

404: OneSource Technical Support Class

Separate sessions will cover support items for the FastLane and VBOSS products.

For the OneSource Project Manager and IT support, this class discusses the most common technical support scenarios involved with the powerful OneSource solution. Horizon support reps will share their troubleshooting expertise to identify root causes and effective resolutions.

Top OneSource support issues from Fall 2008
OSC: Automated communications & maintenance
Front office and back office integration (One Source FOH and BOH only)
General OneSource database support

405: Application Scanning & Online Instant Processor

For the central office staff, see for yourself why processing Free & Reduced applications has never been easier, faster or less expensive!

Scan applications in seconds using Horizon's own scanning software written specifically for our food service products
Applicants can enter their information online to receive notice of their eligibility status - without further processing by your staff!
Full discussion on setup, configuration and operation