Mastering the cost of your most critical bakery ingredients

Maintaining your margin starts with controlling your costs. Get the price benchmarks, forecasts, and cost models you need for everything from flour to fats.

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Trusted by leading confectioners and traders

Your margins are under constant pressure

In the bakery business, profitability is won or lost on procurement. A single volatile ingredient can erase your gains overnight.

Fats & oil volatility

As your number one cost, butter and fat markets are your number one risk. Geopolitical events, weather, and policy changes create unpredictable swings.

True cost complexity

A spike in wheat futures doesn't tell you how your croissant costs change. You need benchmarks for actual ingredients like flour to be accurate.

Speciality ingredient markets

Without reliable data on egg powders, vital gluten, or starches, you're forced into tough, blind negotiations.

Win on two fronts: Margin defense & margin offense.

The best procurement teams don’t just react to the market. Vesper gives you the tools to both defend your core costs and attack new opportunities.

Margin Defense

Secure your most critical, high-volume ingredients at the right price, every time. This is about eliminating surprises and creating cost stability.

Master Butter & Fats

Use industry-leading price benchmarks for butter and AMF, sourced from real transactions, to strengthen your negotiations.

Time Your Purchases

Leverage 12-month AI forecasts for wheat, grains, and sugar to plan your procurement strategy and avoid buying at market peaks.

Find Competitive Deals Faster

Access Vesper’s marketplace to connect with 100+ verified buyers and sellers and close deals in minutes, not days.

Margin Offense

Proactively find savings and create value. This is about using data to innovate, optimize, and unlock hidden profitability.

Model Your True Costs

Go beyond ingredients. Factor in energy, labor, and transport to understand your complete cost-to-serve for every product line.

Test Ingredient Substitutions

Instantly calculate the financial impact of swapping butter for oils, or sugars for alternative sweeteners, to find new cost-saving opportunities.

Optimize Your Product Portfolio

Analyze margins across your entire range to make strategic decisions about which products to promote, reformulate, or retire.

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Verify every quote with an independent benchmark.

From futures to niche ingredients, Vesper centralizes thousands of data points so you can verify any price claim, find discrepancies, and negotiate backed by data.

“Today Vesper saved me about €15,000-16,000… and that’s just one day. Vesper is paying for itself multiple times over.”

Ethan Holmes
Procurement Manager

Key data sources

Vesper Price Index (VPI)

Our proprietary benchmarks are built on real, anonymized transactions from verified market participants.

Partner Data

Data from leading Price Reporting Agencies (PRA).

Public Sources

Global data, from futures to government reports, centralized in one place.

Cost models: from ingredient costs to final margin.

Vesper's Cost Modeling is the engine that powers your margin strategy, connecting real-time market data directly to your bottom line.

Fully Customizable Recipes

Build cost models that perfectly match your unique product formulations, from artisan breads to industrial pastries.

Integrate Non-Ingredient Costs

Go beyond raw materials. Vesper automatically integrates industry benchmarks for energy, labor, and overhead to calculate your true cost-to-shelf.

Simulate Ingredient Substitutions

Instantly see the bottom-line impact of swapping butter for oils or testing alternative sweeteners before making a commitment.

Forecast Your Recipe Costs

See where your product costs are headed. Our AI projects your unique recipe costs up to 12 months ahead, based on our ingredient forecasts.

Empower Your Sales Team

Arm your sales team with accurate, data-backed cost breakdowns to confidently handle customer negotiations and protect margins.

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The Transparent Marketplace for Bakery Ingredients.

Stop spending hours negotiating in isolation. Vesper's marketplace connects you to over 100+ verified companies, helping you close competitive deals in minutes.

Efficient Trading

Create a bid that instantly goes out to all your approved sellers. No more calling around.

Effective Negotiations

Engage in live negotiations with multiple counterparties simultaneously, ensuring you always get a competitive price.

Unmatched Transparency

See other deals as they happen. Every trade on the marketplace powers our VPI benchmarks, creating the most accurate price benchmarks in the industry.

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