RedBlack Software

York-based RedBlack is the creator of the Cybake range of bakery and food-to-go management solutions. Cybake Instore is the result of close collaboration between Cybake's design team and RedBlack's biggest customers in the British bakery and food-to-go sectors. Major clothing and food retailer M&S uses its own customised version of the application in a selection of its in-store bakeries. Instore solves the age-old dilemma faced by all bakers and food-to-go operators: make or stock too much and you throw money in the bin at the end of the day; make or stock too little and you run out of goods early on and miss out on sales. Instore takes historical sales data direct from EPOS tills to calculate shops' orders in a way that is not practical manually. Waste is cut and sales are increased as orders are far more accurate than those made by shop managers. Instore corrects staff assumptions about customers' purchasing decisions. The application takes historical sales and usage data for items - or item-components such as sandwich fillers - to predict future order quantities.