MarketMan vs Millum Procurement

MarketMan is a cloud-based restaurant management platform for inventory control, purchasing, expense tracking and recipe costing. It manages inventory and purchase orders, supports mobile ordering and suggests order quantities. Recipe costing breaks ingredient costs down by menu item in real time. Smart Ordering uses predictive analytics to forecast demand. Starter includes 50 AI-powered invoice scans per month, while Growth includes unlimited invoice scanning. Listed integrations include Toast, Square, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Xero, Sysco and Performance Foodservice. The platform is available through a browser and iOS and Android apps. It serves quick-service and full-service restaurants, cafes, bars, ghost kitchens, and single-location operators and multi-unit chains. Multi-unit tools include centralized reporting, inter-location inventory transfers, commissary kitchen management, standardized recipe libraries and comparative dashboards. Starter costs $249 a month, Growth costs $299 a month and Enterprise costs $449 a month. Enterprise includes read-only API access limited to 5,000 calls per month. Vendor EDI integrations are listed for the US, Canada and UK, with plan limits of one for Starter, two for Growth and unlimited for Enterprise.

Millum Procurement is a purchasing system for hotels, restaurants and canteens, covering work from ordering through invoicing. It runs on Android, iOS and the web, and is designed for small and large businesses joining individually or through a purchasing organization. Users can search products, browse supplier catalogs, build shopping lists and set recurring orders. Order handling includes archives, confirmations, packing slips, goods receipt and discrepancy reporting. The Menu Bank supports recipes, costing, labeling and sharing, and can retrieve nutrition and allergen details from Matinfo. Inventory counts can be shared and completed online or offline on a mobile device or tablet; prices can be updated from supplier catalogs. Optional modules include menu planning, a CO2 calculator, food-waste tracking, free-text ordering, invoice services and Millum Insight. Integrations include Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Xledger, Basware, Mashie, Izy, Matinfo and Validoo. Millum says these are tailored to customer systems, and some integration projects require customer or third-party adaptations. Pricing is on request; a trial of the purchasing module may be arranged for a few users and selected suppliers.