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BakePlan wins Foodex 2018 Great New Idea award
The BakePlan team accept the Great New Idea Award at Foodex 2018. Pictured from left to right: Martin Coyle, Food Manufacture editor Rod Addy, Jane Tyler and Andrew Throup. We were absolutely thrilled to win the Great New Idea award at this year’s huge Foodex trade...
read moreGoing to Foodex? Vote for BakePlan!
BakePlan has been selected as a candidate for the Great New Idea competition at next month’s Foodex – and you can help us get to the final round. The bi-annual Foodex event at Birmingham’s NEC is possibly the British food and drink sector’s biggest trade expo. It will...
read moreWhy do in-store bakery operators miss out on the afternoon trade?
In recent weeks, I’ve been canvassing opinion on this key question. If you operate in-store bakeries, I am really interested to hear your thoughts on the challenges you face when addressing it. In your experience, what proportion of your in-store bakery (ISB) sales...
read moreGerman version: Marks and Spencer verbessern Verfügbarkeit frischer Backwaren ihrer Backstationen und vermindern Abfall mithilfe des BakePlan Systems
Verfügbarkeit ist das Kriterium, in dem sich Supermarkt-Instore-Bäckereien voneinander absetzen. Diese repräsentiert ein weit verbreitetes Problem: Wenn zu viel oder zur falschen Zeit gebacken wird, beeinflusst das Umsatzzahlen oder es muss zu viel weggeworfen werden....
read moreBakePlan Software wins Innovate UK grant for AI retail food waste solution
BakePlan Software has been awarded a grant of £43,600 by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. The York-based tech firm was awarded the funding, which part-matches its own investment, after participating in Innovate UK’s Emerging and Enabling Technologies...
read moreHow BakePlan beats bad EPOS data for unwrapped goods
Despite the sophistication of their systems, grocery retailers struggle with sales-based data for unwrapped food produced in-store. Jane Tyler explains how our BakePlan app beats this blind spot to improve forecasting and planning. As we talk to different types of...
read moreM&S improves in-store bakery availability and cuts waste with BakePlan
Availability is a clear point of differentiation for grocery retailers that operate in-store bakeries. However, it presents an age-old challenge: bake too much or at the wrong times and you miss out on sales or end up throwing food away. Bake little and often, at the...
read moreBakePlan Software launches to focus on supermarket sector after RedBlack Software restructure
BakePlan Software launches to focus on supermarket sector after RedBlack Software restructure With M&S rollout and trials at other retailers, BakePlan forecasting solution gets life of its own. SEPTEMBER 20, 2017, YORK, ENGLAND – RedBlack Software today...
read moreForecasting: how 90,000 tonnes of waste can earn you cash and kudos
Waste is a touchy subject for food retailers. According to industry pressure group WRAP, the total food waste (both avoidable and unavoidable) in the UK grocery supply chain currently stands at 1.9 million tonnes per year. 1.7 million tonnes of this waste...
read moreHow in-store bakery waste reduction can be an easy win for supermarkets
Britain’s supermarket chains have made huge strides in recent years when it comes to minimising waste. Just about everything is now recycled. Edible products are increasingly likely to go to food banks rather than landfill. Food waste is also put to good...
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