Bakery & Cake businesses provide customized and special orders for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, and celebrations. There are two ways to manage bakeries .
Scenario 1: Walk-in / Retail Bakery Sales
Scenario 2: Custom Cake / Order-Based Bakery
➣ Pain points in Bakery Business without Odoo ERP
➧ Poor Inventory Control : Ingredients like flour, cream, and chocolate often run out suddenly or expire due to manual tracking.
➧ Order Management Confusion : Custom cake orders get mixed up with wrong flavors, sizes, or delivery dates causing customer dissatisfaction.
➧ Manual Billing Errors : Handwritten or basic billing calculation mistakes and slow checkout during peak hours.
➧ Lack of Centralized Data : Because sales, purchases, and customer information are stored in different places, it is difficult to track business performance.
➧ Stock Wastage : Daily losses are increased when perishable goods are overpurchased or not used on time.
➧ Inefficient Kitchen Planning : Bakers don’t get clear production schedules, leading to delayed or rushed cake preparation.
➧ Lack of Customer History : No records of the customers orders for birthdays, or repeat orders, missing chances for repeat sales.
➣ How Odoo ERP Streamlines Processes in Bakery Business
Sales, Purchase, Inventory, POS, Accounting, and CRM together into one connected system.Owners can use the Point of Sale application, along with Inventory, Sales, and Purchase apps. For businesses looking to expand online, the Website and E-commerce applications are ideal for showcasing products and handling online orders and creating smooth work flow.
Scenario 1 : Walk-in / Retail Odoo ERP for Bakery Sales
➣ Use POS to sell cakes, pastries, and bread directly to customers
➦ Streamline in-store order processing and offer flexible payment options. Odoo makes sales easy if there is a baker who wants to run a store using POS for walking customer management and billing.
➦ Here Odoo ERP provides cake and pastry orders quickly using the Point of Sales system.
➦ The POS screen shows cakes and bakery items clearly.
➦ Product customization on the POS screen allows staff to enter customer preferences while placing the order.
➦ Easy payment allows customers to complete transactions quickly using multiple payment options at the POS.
➣ Stock updates automatically through Inventory after each sale
➦ Odoo tracks stock in real-time inventory to manage multiple storage locations, automate restocking using reordering rules and monitor expiration dates to ensure that ingredients are fresh and avoid shortages, with Inventory Odoo manages all these challenges.
➦ Storage locations define where items are stored and tracked within the inventory.
➦ Product configuration and smart buttons in Odoo providing auto reordering rule for product track inventory for product using lot numbers.
➦ Automatic reordering rule set min & max quantity rule stock run out refill product auto.
➦ POS orders are automatically reflected in inventory, updating stock levels in real time after each sale.
➦ Inventory updates automatically. Once a sales order is confirmed, the system proceeds to manufacture the product and deducts the necessary ingredients from the inventory.
➣ Odoo is handling accounting with the integrated Accounting App
➦ Real time financial reporting.
➣ Key features to choose Odoo ERP For Bakery
➧Odoo is one system to manage orders, inventory, and billing.
➧Real-time stock tracking reduces waste and shortages.
➧Faster POS billing improves customer experience.
➧Online orders sync automatically with inventory.
➧Better control on daily operations.
