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

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

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 healthy

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

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.

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

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

You Might Be the Reason Your Staff are Making Mistakes

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 day

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

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’

Why You Should Consider an ERP for Your Bakery

Why You Should Consider an ERP for Your Bakery

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

Why You Should Consider an ERP for Food Manufacturing

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

Why You Should Consider an ERP for Grocery and Wholefood Stores

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.

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

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

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

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’

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

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 &

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

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 of

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

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 for

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

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 a full-time

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

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’

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

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,

What’s New in Supply’d V4.7.7: Smarter Ordering, Better Shopify, and a New Look

What’s New in Supply’d V4.7.7: Smarter Ordering, Better Shopify, and a New Look

V4.7.7 is all about smarter systems, cleaner workflows, and clearer data. Whether you're managing orders, production, delivery, or expenses, this release makes it easier to stay in control — and move faster. Let’s dive in. Smarter Ordering Just Landed Smart Ordering is here. You can now

Why We Built Supply’d For Food Businesses

Why We Built Supply’d For Food Businesses

When we started scaling our own food brand and retail stores, things got messy — fast. Inventory management wasn't happening. Margins weren’t clear. Orders were flying in, but the systems couldn’t keep up. We had spreadsheets duct-taped to third-party apps, and every “solution” felt like it was