Guide: Fourth BI Feed
How Do Core Concepts Map to Tenzo?
Key: ✅ Supported 🚸 Work in Progress ❌ Not Supported
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| Location | ✅ Units |
| Vendor | ✅ Suppliers |
| Category | ✅ Category 1 |
| Item | ✅ Products |
| Purchases | ✅ Stock transactions — deliveries |
| Waste | ✅ Stock transactions — wastage |
| Actual Usage | ✅ Stock transactions — usage |
| Theoretical Usage | 🚸 Cost only — the feed reports a theoretical cost but no usage quantity |
| Transfers | ❌ Not Supported |
| Menu Items | ❌ Not Supported |
| Menu Item Costs (for Menu Profitability) | ❌ Not Supported |
| Category hierarchy | 🚸 Category 1 only — Fourth's lower category levels are not used |
| Tax on purchases | 🚸 Purchase cost is reported the same with and without tax |
This guide covers the inventory data in Fourth's BI feed. Fourth's labour data is covered in the Fourth guide, and Fourth Adaco purchasing is covered separately.
Data Ingestion
| Real-time optionally available? | ❌ |
| Default polling frequency | Every 4 hours |
| Data retrieved on each poll | Everything sent since the previous poll |
| Historical data | All data Fourth has sent us since the feed was connected |
How Do I Connect This Data to Tenzo?
Fourth delivers its BI feed to Tenzo, so there are no credentials for you to enter. Your Customer Success Manager arranges the feed and confirms when it is live.
If you have an Enterprise Account, you can talk to your Customer Success Manager, who will connect this for you.
How Do I Compare Fourth BI Feed Data to Data in Tenzo?
Compare against your Fourth inventory reporting for the same date range and unit. Delivery totals, usage and wastage should reconcile per product.
A few things to expect. Fourth groups products across five category levels but Tenzo uses the first one, so a product's category in Tenzo is its top-level grouping rather than its most specific one. Purchase cost arrives as a single figure that Tenzo records as both the with-tax and without-tax value, so a tax-exclusive comparison in Fourth will not line up. Theoretical usage arrives as a cost only, with no quantity attached, so it will not reconcile against a quantity-based usage report. Recipe and menu-item costs are not part of this feed, so menu profitability is not available from it.