The back office behind Northern Ireland bakeries.
FoodMan is our own product, in production since 2011. It takes the orders, the returns, the van sales, the recipes, the stock and the traceability, and posts the invoices straight into Sage and EDI - so nobody rekeys a docket and nothing goes out unpriced.
The whole day, from order to ledger.
Orders
Standing orders, one-offs and phone orders captured once, priced by customer, and out to the bakery in a production list.
Van sales & delivery
Drivers work from a handheld. Deliveries, shortages and signatures captured at the door, not written up that evening.
Returns
The number that quietly eats the margin. Returns recorded per customer, per product, per driver, so you can see where it is going.
Recipes & ingredients
Ingredient costs roll up into product costs, so you know the real margin when a supplier raises a price.
Stock control
What was made, what went out, what came back and what is left - without a stocktake to find out.
Traceability
Batch and lot tracking through production and delivery, ready for the audit rather than assembled during it.
Invoicing
Straight into Sage, or out over EDI to the multiples, with no rekeying and no month-end scramble.
Reporting
Margin by product, by customer, by round. The reports owner-managers actually open.
foodman.infosoftni.com
A separate site with the full FoodMan detail - every module, the screens, and the savings calculator.
FoodMan increased my profits by £50k last year - and let me double the business in two years.
Built around how a bakery actually runs.
- Orders land the night before and the production list is right the first time.
- Drivers are not carrying a clipboard, and the office is not retyping it at five o'clock.
- Returns stop being invisible.
- The invoice goes out the same day it was delivered.
- It talks to the accounts package you already have rather than replacing it.
- Twenty years of the same two people supporting it.