Artisan bakery chain
Inventory and wastage control for a bakery chain
Bespoke software that turned guesswork into numbers - baking the right amount, in the right place, at the right time.
- wastage
- −27%
- mid-morning sell-outs
- −31%
- demand modelling
- Per store
The challenge
An artisan bakery chain was baking to instinct. Some stores sold out by mid-morning while others binned trays of unsold stock at close - and no one could see the pattern.
Wastage was quietly eating the margin on every product, and ordering was a different ritual in every store.
Our approach
We built a tool that learned each store's demand by day and daypart, then turned it into clear baking and ordering guidance the team could trust.
Managers got a simple morning number to work to; head office got wastage and sell-through visibility across the whole chain for the first time.
The outcome
Wastage dropped while sell-out events fell too - the hardest balance in fresh food - protecting both margin and the customer experience.
The guidance keeps improving as it learns more of each store's rhythm.
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