Unit 301 Element 3

1. Unit 301 Element 3 Control of the Issue of Stock/Goods.

2. Aims To Achieve • To maintain issuing stock areas in a hygienically clean and safe manner. • To see that authorised personnel have access to storage areas. • That only commodities are issued when the correct documentation or authorisation have been received. • All commodities that are issued match the order requirements. • All stock rotation procedures are followed. • Records of all commodities are completed accurately, recorded and made available to the appropriate people (finance department).

3. Your Task Requirements. • Group discussion on current food stores issuing within your work place. • Good points. • What works well. • Bad points. • What doesn’t work well.

4. Key Points Issuing Commodities. • Check that the issuing commodities areas are maintained in a clean and safe manner and are secure. • Maintain up-to-date authorised documentation so that the correct commodities can be issued to the correct areas in a professional manner. • Check that all issuing commodities have been issued and transported to the required areas in a hygienically and safe manner.

5. Record any commodities that are returned to the stores that can be safely used and then put back in stock and the issuing area credited. • All records of issuing commodities when completed should be filed and returned to the financial department of the establishment when required.

6. Control Procedures. • In all stores areas, requisitions must be received in good time to enable products to be ordered and available in time for use. In the case of commodities required instantly, an emergency requisition would be used which would be completed by the area requiring the order and countersigned by the authorised personnel. • Before issuing food, certain documentation must be in place.

9. Your Task Requirements. • Find out who orders all food items and who monitors them.