| Issue |
Why Is This
Relevant To Me? |
SL-Tech
Solution |
| Bottom-Line Results
|
A
financially self-sufficient foodservice operation
ensures that the district can spend more funds in
the classroom. |
inTEAM Associates
partners with districts to reduce costs and increase
revenues through proven methods.
WebSMARTT
provides the necessary information to make sound
management decisions. |
| Nutritional
Accountability |
Parents,
students, and government entities alike are
concerned about what kids are eating. There is no
reason why a foodservice program cannot serve
healthy foods and also achieve its financial goals. |
inTEAM best
practices include healthy meal options, nutritional
analysis of menus, and education programs for
students.
WebSMARTT software can be used to inform
parents what students are eating at school. |
| Government
Accountability |
Federal
and state governments continue to increase oversight
and accountability requirements for one of the last
remaining entitlement programs. An increasing number
of districts are not prepared for their Coordinated
Review Efforts (CRE’s). |
inTEAM can provide
a pre-CRE evaluation and action plan to ensure that
the CRE is passed.
WebSMARTT
software provides an appropriate audit trail to
satisfy CRE reporting requirements. |
| Vending |
Vending
operations are often managed outside of foodservice
and provide critical revenue to schools. However,
what goes into the vending machines is often at odds
with the district’s nutritional goals. |
Deli Zone by VendSMARTT
is a turnkey, out-of-the-box vending program that
serves healthy reimbursable meals and allows
students to pick which meal components they want.
Revenue from the program (bolstered by federal
reimbursements) can be shared with principles and
student organization. |
| Systems Integration |
Decisions
about managing the district cannot be made in silos.
It is critically important that cross-departmental
information roll up into meaningful reports. |
Schools
Interoperability Framework (SIF)
standards are built directly into WebSMARTT. This
means that information can be shared between
foodservice, student information, transportation,
finance, or any other district system without manual
intervention. Critical reports can be dynamically
generated. |
| Network Management |
Some
districts have outstanding IT departments with
adequate staffing and resources. Some need a little
help. Software is useless if it cannot operate
properly. |
SL-Tech’s
Network Service Group (NSG)
can perform assessments to determine what needs to
be done before any software is installed. NSG can
also assist your IT department in monitoring the
network to identify likely risks before any serious
problems arise. |
| Payment Systems &
Universal ID Cards |
Students
and parents are savvy consumers, and the ability to
use one ID card as a universal form of payment as
well as for access throughout the school is
important. |
myCard@School can be used to purchase
meals, board buses, track attendance, and in any
other place where a student needs to be identified.
The PAD
can capture students’ information and provide access
to their accounts anywhere on campus that a network
connection is available.
The student’s account can be recharged at the
myPAL
Prepayment Kiosk or online at
myLunchMoney.com. A single ID card with
multiple uses ensures convenience, and more
importantly, security. |
of
the Great City Schools, this paper takes a critical
look at the costs and benefits of outsourcing versus
maintaining a self-operated
