Manufacturing, Food & Beverages — Romania
Automation of the production processes of a bakery Romania
Automated processed to have more time for preparing the best sweets and not to loose time on plannings.
Overview
Solution
Process Automation
Duration
4 months
Team
1 x Backend Developer, 1 x Frontend Developer, 1 x Project Manager
Engagement Model
Fixed Price
MissCake is a small Romanian bakery shop that offers high-quality services, and has one of the most appreciated cakes and sweets at the events happening in town. Working in the food industry is a challenge by default as the business owner has to often face short deadlines and perishable ingredients.
While having this in mind, planning becomes a primordial step ahead of anything else. MissCake’s owners prepare rigorously, each day what they need to deliver and they take into consideration all the orders that entered during the week. Besides the ongoing daily activity, a typical bakery business needs a higher number of employees, vacation days for them to rest, a thorough planning, and more.
Built with
Key highlights
Adapting the existing ordering system to accept requests from various channels
Have a flexible infrastructure that would adapt to multiple products and types of data
Improve and scale an existing solution for better process efficiency
Understand customer needs at its core and ensure a thorough process automation
The challenge
Resources planning and prioritization are the two elements that can shake the core of a bakery business, and we faced the need to scale the existing solutions for better efficiency. As a first step, we had to build a template that would contain all the bakery’s products and the phases that each product needs to go through in its standardized process.
In a second phase, we had to develop an algorithm that would generate the planning and product prioritization for the upcoming three months, by taking into consideration the following factors:
The manufacturing phases needed by each cake & their priority
Delivery and perishability date
Vacation days and working hours for each employee
The total number of employees and their data
Total number of products leaving the bakery
Always put yourself in the customer's shoes
Understanding the real needs and problems of Miss Cake, we started with discovery sessions through online meetings, and then we continued with product demonstrations, as soon as technological advancements were made.
This process had a tremendous impact on the custom development of the software because we manage to collect direct feedback from their customers. This is how we managed to be sure the product development is going in the right direction and ensure a thorough process automation.
Sometimes cake layers and flexible algorithms are a few steps away
If you take a look at cakes and technological systems, you’ll be amazed by how similar they are because at the end of the day they both work with layers. In the algorithm that we worked on we had to define how a simple order would split then in the type of cakes and days required phases for production, and finally get a person assigned to it.
The development of the last layer was the most challenging part, and that took the majority of the dedicated time for this project and required the most important decisions from both our part and Miss Cake’s team.
Main features
Admin Panel
A dashboard that allows to manage the content and actors of the app
Forecasting Algorithm
The process of making predictions based on past and present data and most commonly by analysis of trends
Media Files Uploading
App allows users to upload audio, video, pictures and documents for various purposes
Real Time Data Processing
Take input of rapidly changing data and provide output using algorithms
Reporting & Analysis
Generate reports with data, charts, and graphs in an easy way to be analysed
Our partner's thoughts
The production program completed by webamboos successfully increased stakeholders' efficiency. They were able to minimize the manual tasks done by the client's employees, and they were able to centralize information effectively. In the end, the client plans to implement more features in the future.
Carla
at Miss Cake