What your suppliers have been charging you, over time. Every validated invoice leaves a point on this chart.
The page
Pick a venue. You get every product that has invoice history, with a chart and a table.
159 products with invoice history — that is the number of ingredients you have bought at least once. An ingredient never on a validated invoice has no history and does not appear.
The chart
One product, its price over time, one point per invoice.
The unit is on the card — a product bought in different units keeps its histories separate. Pounds and cases are different prices for the same thing, and averaging them would be nonsense.
2 records means two invoices. Two points make a line, and a line between two points is not a trend. It is two prices.
The comparison cards
vs 1 month · vs 3 months · vs 6 months
How the current price compares. A — means not enough history to say — the product has not been bought over that span.
New ingredients show dashes everywhere. That is honest, not broken. Come back in a quarter.
All products
Product · Unit · Points · Last price · Change
Points is the one to read first. A change of +75.6% on 2 points is not a 75% increase — it is two invoices, and the second was dearer. Could be a seasonal spike, a different grade, a rush order, or a real increase. You cannot tell from two points.
Sort by change, then filter mentally by points. The rows worth acting on are the ones with a real number of records behind them.
What it is for
Catching what creeps.
A supplier does not double a price. They add 4%, twice a year, and nobody notices because nobody remembers what oil cost eighteen months ago. This page remembers.
Your recipes already carry it. The price change flowed into food cost the moment you validated the invoice — silently, correctly, and with no comment. This is where you go to see it and say something about it.
Split suppliers break this
If the same supplier exists twice — MOSTO FOODS and MOSTO FOODS INC. — their products are two separate ingredients with two separate histories.
You will see two short, meaningless lines instead of one long, clear one. Check Suppliers if a history looks shorter than it should.
Next
Spend by Product — not what it costs, but what you are spending.