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Stop Assuming Labour Costs — It’s Hurting Your Margin

There’s a strange epidemic going around in food manufacturing and bakery circles. It’s the assumption that labour is “about 20%.” We hear it all the time: * “The team starts at 1am and finishes at 9am, so we’ve got a rough idea.” * “It all evens out over time.

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What to Look for in an ERP if You're Scaling Fast

If your food business is growing quickly — more SKUs, more channels, more complexity — you’ll hit a breaking point. The spreadsheets crack. The whiteboards aren’t updated. And your “just wing it” systems? They start costing you time, money, and sanity. That’s when you start looking for an ERP.

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Your First ERP Implementation? Here’s What to Expect

If you’re considering your first ERP system, you might be feeling a mix of excitement… and dread. You’re not alone. ERP software has a reputation: expensive, complicated, disruptive. But that reputation comes from platforms that were built decades ago — for businesses with IT departments and in-house consultants.

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Supply’d V4.9: Department Control, Product Tools, and a Lot Less Noise

Version 4.9 is here — and it’s all about clarity, control, and cutting out clutter. Whether you’re running a multi-team bakery, managing separate grocery departments, or just tired of outdated import templates, this release makes managing your operations smoother than ever. Here’s what’s new. New:

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Why Your Tech Stack Should Talk to Each Other

Let’s say you use Xero for accounting. Shopify for ecommerce. Square for POS. Starshipit for shipping. And spreadsheets for… well, everything in between. That’s fine — until they stop talking to each other. And suddenly, you’re doing the same job twice, chasing info across tabs, or worse — making

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How Much Manual Admin Is Costing Your Business

Every business has admin. But in food manufacturing, grocery, and wholesale, admin piles up fast. Invoices to match. Orders to confirm. Stock to count. Prices to update. Labels to print. And too often, these tasks are done manually — with spreadsheets, sticky notes, inboxes and memory. It feels manageable… until you

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ERP vs WMS vs Inventory Software – What’s the Difference?

If you're running a growing food business, you've probably Googled a few acronyms lately. ERP, WMS, IMS… it’s enough to make your head spin. Do you need all three? Just one? Which does what? Let’s break it down — simply and practically — so you can

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What’s New in Supply’d V4.8: Smarter Planning, Easier Recalls & Invoice Automation

Our latest release — Supply’d V4.8 — is packed with powerful new tools to help you run tighter operations with less effort. From smarter production planning to seamless invoice matching and instant recall traceability, this update is designed to save you time, reduce admin, and give you even more control.

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The One Thing That Changed Everything in My Business

When you know your margins and target volumes, the next step is obvious. You need to forecast. I know — it sounds basic. Underwhelming even. I felt the same. Let Me Tell You a Quick Story One of my earlier businesses was struggling. We were probably running at a loss (if

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The Truth About Margins in Food: It’s a Volume Game

When you're building a food brand, it’s easy to fall into the trap of chasing big margins on every product. That was one of the biggest mistakes I made when scaling my own food brand. We thought a high per-unit profit meant we were building a

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Best ERP for Food Manufacturers in 2025: What to Look For

If you’re running a food manufacturing business, you already know how hard it is to stay on top of everything — stock, production, recipes, pricing, compliance, and about a hundred suppliers. That’s why more and more food businesses are turning to ERP systems to get control over their operations.

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What’s New in Supply’d V4.7.9: Smarter Pricing, Better Deliveries, and API Access

This release is all about giving you more control — over pricing, deliveries, reporting, and system integrations. From advanced pricing management to API access and delivery routing enhancements, Supply’d V4.7.9 helps you run tighter, smarter operations at scale. Let’s jump in. Advanced Pricing Management Has Landed Managing

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You Might Be the Reason Your Staff are Making Mistakes

Most business owners and ops managers don’t realise it… But the biggest limitation in your business isn’t your team, your tools, or your margins. It’s human capacity — and the way you’re using it. Let’s break it down with a real-world example that happens every

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Let’s Talk About the Sh*t in the Middle

Most businesses are obsessed with the top line. Sales. Growth. New stockists. More orders. More SKUs. More channels. That stuff’s exciting — and it looks great on a pitch deck. But what actually makes or breaks your business? The sh*t in the middle. What’s “the middle,” exactly? It’

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How to Know When Your Bakery Has Outgrown Spreadsheets

Bakeries run on precision. Whether you’re baking sourdough, pastries, pies or cakes — the ingredients, timing, and process all have to line up. But when it comes to managing the business side of baking, most bakeries are held together with spreadsheets, whiteboards, and crossed fingers. And that’s fine… until

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Why You Should Consider an ERP for Food Manufacturing

Whether you're tempering chocolate, baking bread, roasting nuts, or bottling kombucha — food manufacturing gets complicated fast. From raw ingredients to packaging, batch numbers to production stages, retail pricing to wholesale margins… most food manufacturers are juggling a lot — and doing it across spreadsheets, a few disconnected tools, and

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Why You Should Consider an ERP for Grocery and Wholefood Stores

Running a grocery or wholefood store isn’t simple. You’re juggling perishables, bulk items, retail pricing, loyalty programs, deliveries, supplier orders, in-store stock, and (probably) a POS system that’s doing its best — but not really keeping up.

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Supply’d ERP vs Spreadsheets: Why It’s Time to Move On

If you’re still running your food business off spreadsheets — you’re not alone. We’ve been there too. Spreadsheets for stock. Spreadsheets for orders. Spreadsheets for recipes. And a dozen tabs open just to figure out if you’ve got enough packaging for tomorrow’s production run. At some

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Supply’d ERP vs NetSuite: What is the Best for Food Businesses?

NetSuite is powerful — no doubt. It’s used by major corporations with teams of analysts, IT support, and internal systems managers. But if you’re a food brand, grocer, or manufacturer? NetSuite can feel like trying to steer a cargo ship when what you really need is a ute. We’

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What’s New in Supply’d V4.7.8: Smarter Picking, New Integrations, and Better Controls

We’ve been busy behind the scenes, and V4.7.8 is another amazing update. This release brings smarter tools to your warehouse, tighter controls for ordering, brand-new integrations, and a bunch of subtle upgrades that make Supply’d even smoother to use. Let’s take a look. Pick

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Supply’d ERP vs Cin7: Which Platform is Built for Food Brands?

Cin7 is a name that comes up a lot when businesses start looking for inventory software. It’s powerful, feature-rich, and used by thousands of companies. But if you’re a food brand, grocer, or manufacturer — you’ve probably felt this already: Cin7 wasn’t built for your kind

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Supply’d ERP vs Unleashed: What's the Better Fit for Food & Retail Ops?

There’s no shortage of inventory software out there. And Unleashed is often the go-to for businesses looking to get a handle on stock. But if you’re running a food or retail business — especially one that’s scaling — you’ve probably noticed something’s missing. Unleashed is great

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Supply’d ERP vs Odoo: Which ERP Actually Works for Food and Retail?

Odoo is one of the most well-known open-source ERP platforms out there. It offers modules for everything — accounting, HR, CRM, manufacturing, you name it. But more isn’t always better. If you’re running a food brand, grocer, bakery, or manufacturer, you don’t need 72 modules and

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Supply’d ERP vs FlexiBake: A Better Way to Run a Modern Bakery

If you’ve been researching ERP software for your bakery, you’ve probably come across FlexiBake. It’s one of the older players in the space and has served a lot of bakeries over the years. But just because it’s been around for a while doesn’t mean it’

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Supply’d ERP vs Cybake: What’s the Right Fit for Your Bakery?

If you’ve been exploring bakery software, there’s a good chance you’ve come across Cybake. Cybake has been around for a while, and it does a solid job for bakeries focused on retail sales and delivery routes. But if your business involves production planning, supplier ordering, wholesale management,