Module 1 · Annual Order
Annual Order / Preplanning
Place USDA Foods orders against a state-set entitlement cap. Items route either to the school district (Brown Box) or to a food processor that converts raw commodities into end products.
Annual orders are entered per school district. Select a school district above, then place orders from the catalog below.
- Workspace
- School district (primary) · Admin oversight
- Primary task
- Place annual USDA Foods orders against the school district's entitlement cap, route items to school district or food processor, and submit before the RFP deadline.
- Complexity hidden
- USDA item validation, entitlement-cap enforcement during entry, cycle-window state management, item-availability constraints (production shortages / reformulations / USDA withdrawals), and submit/save loops to guard against time-out data loss.
- In production
- This annual ordering surface coordinated USDA Foods orders across 1,600+ school district/vendor records, against entitlement caps that managed over $52M in California alone (SY 2014–15).
- Demo simplification
- One school district enters one order against one entitlement cap. Cases-only quantities (production CTS also supported end-products and meals × days modes). Synthetic data only.
Entitled
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Spent + Pending
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Remaining
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Over/Under %
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Brown Box deliveries — raw USDA commodities routed directly to the school district without food-processor intermediation. Enter the number of cases to order in each row. Line spend = cases × OHFMV.
| USDA Code | Description | PakType | Delivery | LBS / Case | OHFMV | Cases | Line Spend |
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Food-processor-routed orders. Raw USDA commodities are shipped to a food processor that converts them into end products (e.g., diced chicken → chicken patties). Enter cases per item — the processor handles conversion downstream.
Step 1
Enter cases in the catalog rows below. The entitlement ledger above updates automatically as you order, with threshold indicators at 80% (near limit) and 100% (over).