How technology is transforming school feeding management

And if your school meals could guarantee nutritional quality, reduce waste and still be fully accountable?

In this sense, meeting the PNAE (National School Feeding Program) is a constant challenge for town halls and food service. After all, it is necessary to offer healthy and safe meals, manage menus, control supplies and maintain efficient processes at all stages.

That's why technology has become indispensable in this scenario. Teknisa, a reference in collective meal management solutions, offers a school feeding planning system which guarantees efficiency, nutritional quality and transparency throughout the lunch process.

In addition, this tool integrates all stages of the operation - from menu planning to meal delivery - ensuring greater efficiency, safety and compliance with the PNAE.

👇 Transform the way your school network feeds itself: read on and understand how Teknisa's technology guarantees more control, savings and safety in school food management.

Teknisa's school food planning system: efficiency and quality in school meals

At first, the school feeding planning system from Teknisa, the TecFood, is a complete solution that centralizes and organizes every stage of management. As a result, it makes it possible to create dynamic menus, adapted by age group and teaching modality, automatically replicating them for different school units, with the possibility of specific adjustments.

With him, town halls and food service are able to unify processes, increase control over resources and ensure that each meal fulfills its role: to nourish and promote health and learning.

In addition, the solution integrates nutrition, stock, purchasing and logistics in a single environment. In this way, it provides agility, reduces waste and ensures compliance with the PNAE. Another important point is the use of standardized technical data sheets e per capita defined, which increase the predictability of consumption.

Likewise, the system offers total traceability of inputs, guaranteeing transparency at every stage and contributing to the food safety and the responsible use of public resources.

Advantages of using Teknisa's solution

So with her, it's possible:

• Automate menu planning according to age group and nutritional guidelines.
• Control stocks and purchases in real time, avoiding waste.
• Generate auditable reports for accountability.
• Monitor consumption by school unit and optimize logistics.
• Support decisions with predictive analysis and data integration.

Therefore, with the school feeding management system of Teknisa, city halls and companies of food service gain efficiency, reduce costs and guarantee meals in line with the PNAE, with total transparency and food safety.

Furthermore, this integration of processes promotes quality and sustainability throughout the operation, ensuring consistent results in the long term.

📲 Read on and find out how Teknisa's app takes the management of school meals to the palm of your hand, ensuring more agility, precision and practicality in the day-to-day running of schools.

School feeding management app: control in the palm of your hand

Currently Teknisa application is the ideal ally to take control of the school meals directly into the day-to-day running of institutions. With this tool, nutritionists and operational teams can record, consult and update information quickly, conveniently and even offline, ensuring that no data is lost in the school routine.

What's more, this mobile tool is fully integrated with the Teknisa's school feeding management system, This allows information collected in the field to be automatically synchronized with the central system.

In this way, managers and nutritionists have access to real, up-to-date data in real time, which strengthens the planning of school meals and guarantees more efficient execution of meals.

The main features of Teknisa's app include:

• Staff registerThe most important thing is to be able to: count the number of students and meals served each shift quickly and accurately.
• Agile inventorystock control directly at the school, identifying shortages and preventing waste.
• Purchase requestSend orders to replenish supplies with just a few clicks, speeding up the supply process.
• Menu consultation: access the programmed meals and the technical preparation sheets at any time.

Thus, by adopting the Teknisa app, town halls e food service companies ensure greater day-to-day agility and decentralized but fully connected management, strengthening quality control and operational efficiency.

📌 Next, discover how Teknisa transforms every stage of school feeding - from planning to serving - with intelligent, integrated solutions.

Read on!

1. Intelligent planning aligned with the PNAE

First of all, one of Teknisa's school feeding management solution is the creation of dynamic menus, adjusted by type of teaching and age group. In addition, the solution allows menus to be replicated automatically for different school units, always respecting the cost targets and nutritional guidelines of the school. PNAE.

The system also uses standardized technical data sheets with defined per capita, speeding up planning and increasing the predictability of consumption. As a result, the manager guarantees balanced school meals for nurseries, elementary school and the EJA.

Therefore, the technology ensures security and consistency at all stages, with quality management e food safety in food service.

Do you want to optimize the planning of school menus with agility and precision? Find out in the video below how Teknisa transforms the management of catering companies.

Nutritional control: the basis for safe and efficient school meals

Firstly, complying with the PNAE's requirements guarantees the well-being of the students. This is due to the fact that the program determines minimum percentages of nutrients in meals, taking into account the time spent at school and the age of the students.

According to FNDE, The school meals must cover between 20% and 70% of the daily nutritional requirements. It is therefore essential to keep precise control of menus and ingredients.

The TecFood system makes this possible:

• Monitor nutritional values in real time;
• Adjust preparations according to the required percentages;
• Standardize recipes with food factsheets integrated;
• Ensure complete, balanced and auditable menus.

With this, nutritionists offer healthy meals, in line with the law and adapted to the reality of each school unit.

➡️ But for these menus to make it off the drawing board and onto your plate, stock control has to work. In the next topic, see how technology solves this challenge.

2. Stock under control with Teknisa's app for nutritionists

In collective meals, especially in the context of school meals, In addition, avoiding losses and controlling inputs is a priority. With this in mind, Teknisa has developed a exclusive app for nutritionists, which makes it possible to carry out inventories directly in schools, quickly and accurately.

This is why it is possible to use this solution:

• Reduce waste and prevent deviations; 
• Automatically write off stock according to the services planned; 
• Monitoring expiry dates and ensuring food safety; 
• Ensure complete traceability of the inputs used.

In addition, the inventory module has voice control via artificial intelligence, making the process faster, more intuitive and more accessible. With this stock management becomes decentralized, but fully integrated and reliable, meeting the operational requirements of the school meals.

➡️ Now that stock is under control, how can we ensure that the right food reaches the right school at the right time? Read on and find out how Teknisa applies data-driven logistics to transform school lunch management

3. Data-based logistics and monitored consumption

First and foremost, efficiency in the distribution of school meals starts with quality information. For this, the solution TecFood from Teknisa monitors the consumption of each unit in real time, allowing:

• Precise deliveries, adjusted to real demand;
• Reduction of up to 35% in waste (data FNDE, 2025);
• Adaptive planning considering nutritional profile, seasonality and the new PNAE guidelines.

As a result, logistics becomes sustainable, with optimized routes, consolidated reports for public managers and guaranteed food safety from the supplier to the student's plate.

What if it were possible to predict 100% needs and eliminate waste before it happened? Then see how predictive intelligence makes it possible.

Preventing faults and waste: more efficiency with technology

By cross-referencing menu, purchasing and consumption data, Teknisa's system enables quick and strategic decisions. In addition, reports on Business Intelligence (BI) identify waste patterns, adjust forecasts and improve planning.

On the other hand, the application of FIFO method (First In, First Out) preserves product quality and avoids losses due to expiration. This makes the operation more sustainable, economical and safe.

Also, according to FNDE (National Education Development Fund), efficient management practices in school feeding increase the use of PNAE resources and improve nutritional quality for students.

➡️ Do you want to maintain this level of control and still have reports ready for accountability?

Read on!

4. Auditable reports and transparent accountability

First of all, it's important to note that town halls and catering companies need to be accountable to supervisory bodies and society. To meet this need, the TecFood by Teknisa generates rcomplete and traceable reports on the entire operation:

• Menus on offer;
• Number of meals produced;
• Consumption of inputs and movements;
• Costs per service and compliance with the PNAE.

As a result, this transparency strengthens trust between managers, suppliers and the school community. In addition data intelligences transforms this information into a competitive advantage.

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5. Intelligence for more assertive decisions

Through Business Intelligence, Teknisa's system gathers data and indicators into dashboards that support smarter and more preventive decisions. It therefore enables:

• Forecast annual consumption based on standardized technical data sheets;
• Forecast annual consumption based on standardized technical data sheets;
• Optimize purchasing management;
• Identify bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement;
• Act quickly when the situation changes.

In this sense, technology has become a real competitive differentiator for companies and municipalities operating in the field. school meals. In addition, it guarantees quick decisions, savings in resources and continuous improvement in the quality of meals.

Success stories: municipalities that have modernized school meals

Nowadays, municipalities that invest in technology guarantee healthier and better quality school meals. As a result, several Brazilian municipalities are already reaping positive results by adopting the Teknisa's school feeding management system to modernize the management of school meals.

Examples include Piraquara and Rolândia, in Paraná, These have become success stories. In these locations, the implementation of the solution has brought more agility to processes, greater control of resources and improved meal quality.

In addition, Teknisa's technology offers total traceability of inputs, ensuring food safety and transparency in the use of public resources.

In this way, operations become safe, economical and highly reliable, ensuring that each meal complies with the PNAE guidelines and contributes to the students' development.

💡 Like Piraquara and Rolândia, any town hall can transform the management of school meals by investing in integrated technological solutions for the food service sector.

Conclusion

In short, technology is already shaping the the future of school feeding and food service in Brazil. In this context, with complete solutions such as Teknisa's school feeding management system, it is possible to fully meet the requirements of the PNAE, control inputs with precision, reduce waste and generate savings without losing quality.

In addition, the platform ensures transparency at all stages, promotes food safety and supports strategic decisions that benefit thousands of students in the world. town halls from all over the country.

Therefore, if you work in public management or in catering and school food companies, modernize your operation and raise the quality of school meals with the Teknisa system.

🔎 Want to know more? Then request a free demo of Teknisa's TecFood school feeding planning system and discover how to transform your network's management with technology and security.