The Supply’d Blog – Smarter Operations for Food & Retail

Supply’d V5.3.4: Supplier Promotion Management & Delivery Routing Upgrades

Supply’d V5.3.4: Supplier Promotion Management & Delivery Routing Upgrades

This update focuses heavily on helping you maximise your margins through smarter purchasing of promotions, while also giving your logistics team more control over their daily delivery routes.

Supply’d V5.3.3: Training Centre, Wave Picking & Smarter Forecasting

Supply’d V5.3.3: Training Centre, Wave Picking & Smarter Forecasting

This update is packed with highly requested features to help you train your team, dramatically speed up your warehouse operations, and keep your accounting secure.

Supply’d V5.3.2: Wedderburn Scale Integration, Production Substitutions, and Enhanced Costing

Supply’d V5.3.2: Wedderburn Scale Integration, Production Substitutions, and Enhanced Costing

This release is a massive step forward for precision and control directly on your production floor. We are introducing a highly anticipated hardware integration, brand-new recipe flexibility, and smarter financial syncing to keep your accounts clean.

Supply’d V5.3.1: Weekly Standing Orders & Smarter Expense Management

Supply’d V5.3.1: Weekly Standing Orders & Smarter Expense Management

Supply’d V5.3.1 is here! In this update, we are thrilled to introduce a massive upgrade to how you manage your recurring sales and purchases, alongside some highly requested enhancements to expense management.

Supply’d V5.3: Multi-Account Switching, Baker's Percentages, and Smarter Workflows

Supply’d V5.3: Multi-Account Switching, Baker's Percentages, and Smarter Workflows

Whether you manage multiple businesses or you're a baker looking to standardise your recipes the way you were trained, this update is built for you.

Supply’d V5.2.2: Smarter Reporting, Delivery Upgrades, and Advanced Pick & Pack

Supply’d V5.2.2: Smarter Reporting, Delivery Upgrades, and Advanced Pick & Pack

For Supply’d V5.2.2 we've focused heavily on giving you deeper visibility and finer control over your daily operations. Whether you're looking to automate your reporting, streamline your delivery routes, or level up your packing traceability, this release has something for everyone.

Stop Flying Blind: Announcing Our Founders New Book, The Sh!t In The Middle

Stop Flying Blind: Announcing Our Founders New Book, The Sh!t In The Middle

Let’s be honest: most business books out there are completely obsessed with growth. They tell you how to scale, how to acquire more customers, and how to drive top-line revenue. But what happens when growth is actually hiding your biggest problems? Did you know that 60% of businesses

Supply’d V5.2: Introducing Task Management, Auto-Updating Orders, and Smoother Workflows

Supply’d V5.2: Introducing Task Management, Auto-Updating Orders, and Smoother Workflows

Supply’d V5.2 is here, and this time we are focusing on bringing more of your daily operations directly into the platform. With a brand-new Task Management suite, smarter order fulfilment, and several quality-of-life workflow upgrades.

Supply’d V5.1.3: Introducing Bakers Mode, Smarter Production Planning, and Elevated Inventory Management

Supply’d V5.1.3: Introducing Bakers Mode, Smarter Production Planning, and Elevated Inventory Management

This update is packed with highly requested tools, workflow upgrades, and a brand-new suite of features designed from the ground up for our bakery users. Let’s dive right into what’s new!

Supply’d V5.1: AI Forecasting, Advanced Barcoding & Performance Reporting

Supply’d V5.1: AI Forecasting, Advanced Barcoding & Performance Reporting

Our latest update brings intelligence to your inventory. With the launch of AI-powered forecasting, GS1 barcode support, and deep-dive performance reports, V5.1 is designed to help you make more informed, data-driven decisions.

Podcast: Behind Pistachio Papi and LaManna: What Ensures Profitable Brands Stay Profitable

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Podcast: Behind Pistachio Papi and LaManna: What Ensures Profitable Brands Stay Profitable

Growth is the goal for every food entrepreneur, but as any founder will tell you, scaling up often brings as many headaches as it does wins. Recently, our very own Jason Stockton sat down with industry powerhouse Patrick LaManna (owner of the iconic LaManna Supermarket, and Director of Pistachio Papi)

2026 Operations Outlook: From "Busy" to "Data-Driven"

2026 Operations Outlook: From "Busy" to "Data-Driven"

If 2024 was about survival and 2025 was about stabilising, 2026 is the year of precision. The era of scaling by "throwing bodies at the problem" is officially over. Labour is too expensive, and margins are too tight. The most successful food businesses in 2026 aren't

How to Get Your Head Chef to Love Your ERP

How to Get Your Head Chef to Love Your ERP

Let’s be honest. If you walk into a busy kitchen at 5 AM and try to hand your Head Chef a laptop, you’re going to get "The Look." You know the one. It’s the look that says: "I have 400 loaves to bake, two

Order Management Systems for Food: Taming the Inbox

Order Management Systems for Food: Taming the Inbox

If you run a food business, you know the pain: orders streaming in from everywhere — email, web stores, wholesale portals, POS systems — and all at once. By 10am, your inbox feels like it’s on fire. That’s where an Order Management System (OMS) steps in. It doesn’t just

Supply’d V5.0: Stores, Custom Layouts & Flexible Orders

Supply’d V5.0: Stores, Custom Layouts & Flexible Orders

Version 5.0 introduces some of our biggest updates yet — a refreshed menu and checkout experience, the long-awaited Stores feature, and major behind-the-scenes improvements to orders, favourites, and integrations.

Warehouse Management Systems for Food: Why They’re Different

Warehouse Management Systems for Food: Why They’re Different

Running a food warehouse isn’t just about knowing what’s on the shelf. You need to know which batch, which date code, and exactly where it’s gone. A proper Warehouse Management System (WMS) turns that chaos into calm: staff scan, labels print, and orders move seamlessly from production

What Are Operational COGS — and Why Should You Care?

What Are Operational COGS — and Why Should You Care?

Not all costs are created equal. If you’re running a food business, chances are you’re spending more time in the kitchen, warehouse, or delivery van than inside your accounting software. That’s why understanding Operational COGS (the real costs behind making and delivering your product) is critical to

Your ERP Should Be Quietly Working in the Background

Your ERP Should Be Quietly Working in the Background

There’s a moment every ops lead knows too well. The shift’s barely started, and you’ve already got three fires to put out. A customer’s standing order is late. There’s a question about production priorities. Someone’s waiting on a PO. And in the middle of

Introducing Supply’d Intelligence: Finally, a System That Understands Your Business

Introducing Supply’d Intelligence: Finally, a System That Understands Your Business

You know that feeling when the order volume spikes, a supplier sends the wrong stock, and the production team is asking what to make next — all before you’ve finished your first coffee? Most software doesn’t get that. Supply’d Intelligence does, and it comes out of the box

Supply’d V4.10: Smarter Orders, Smarter Production, Smarter Everything

Supply’d V4.10: Smarter Orders, Smarter Production, Smarter Everything

Supply’d V4.10 brings smarter purchasing, production planning, and order automation. New dashboards, customer controls, and Xero updates make this our most powerful release yet — designed to reduce admin and give you more control.

On the Foodpreneurs Podcast: Fixing the Hidden Costs of Growth

On the Foodpreneurs Podcast: Fixing the Hidden Costs of Growth

I recently joined Chelsea Ford on the Foodpreneurs Podcast, alongside Ross Galettis from Madhouse Bakehouse — one of our amazing Supply’d clients — to talk about something every founder feels but few talk about openly: The hidden costs that slowly eat away at your margins. In this episode, we unpack how

Generic ERP vs Industry-Specific: Why Going Niche Pays Off for Food Businesses

Generic ERP vs Industry-Specific: Why Going Niche Pays Off for Food Businesses

When food businesses start shopping for an ERP, they often end up in the same spot — staring down a long list of big-name, generic platforms that promise to “do it all.” But here’s the thing: what works for a furniture supplier or a parts distributor rarely works for

Stop Assuming Labour Costs — It’s Hurting Your Margin

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.

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

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.

Your First ERP Implementation? Here’s What to Expect

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.