Inventory and capacity software for bakeries
Most bakery inventory software stops at telling you how much flour is in the store room. A bakery needs the next answer: how many loaves, cakes and trays that flour actually allows, once every other ingredient is counted too. Makeable holds your recipes, watches your stock, and answers that question before you commit to an order.
Chocolate cake
- Eggs60 in stock, 4 per cake15 units
- Flour8000 g in stock, 250 g per cake32 units
- Butter1500 g in stock, 100 g per cake15 units
- Cocoa2400 g in stock, 80 g per cake30 units
Capacity is the smallest of those numbers, so today you can make 15. The bottleneck is eggs and butter, and that is the line to buy first. Read the method in our guide to production capacity planning.
- Flour
- Butter
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Cocoa
- Boxes and liners
Every one of these becomes a line in your recipe, so you can also calculate your bill of materials and work out cost and margin per unit.
What this actually fixes
Morning orders you cannot yet price
A customer asks for twenty five cakes by Friday. You know your stock, but not whether it stretches that far.
Shared ingredients across every product
Butter sits in six recipes. Selling one product quietly reduces what you can make of the other five.
Deliveries that arrive a day late
Reorder points based on real weekly usage stop the Thursday panic run to the wholesaler.
Asked often
How do I know how many cakes I can bake with the stock I have?
Divide the stock of each ingredient by the amount one cake needs, then take the smallest result. That smallest number is your true capacity, and the ingredient behind it is your bottleneck. Makeable does this for every product every time stock moves.
What is the best inventory software for a small bakery?
The best fit for a small bakery is software that holds recipes as well as stock, because a bakery needs a bake count rather than a shelf count. Makeable is built for that: recipes in, capacity and shortfalls out, with a free plan for three products.
Can I work out the cost of a cake per unit?
Yes. Enter what you paid for each ingredient pack and its pack size, and Makeable converts that to cost per gram, per egg or per unit, then totals the recipe to give cost and margin for one cake.
I used to count eggs twice before saying yes to an order. Now I open Makeable, see 15 cakes, and answer the customer while they're still on the phone.
Know what you can make today.
Add your real materials, set your recipes once, and let Makeable answer the question every time stock moves. Free on three products, forever.