OCL Oceanic Catering Ltd provides marine catering and provisions management services to vessels around the world, operating in 14 countries with over 20 years of experience; they are exploring solutions to improve the accuracy and timeliness of monthly stock inventory reporting from vessels to better monitor performance and control costs, given challenges of workload for chief cooks and potential agendas of vessel captains. Ideas discussed include using RFID, image recognition, dispensing machines, or barcode scanning but each option has limitations around cost, feasibility on vessels, or reliance on technology.