Challenges: Reporting on production costs for each orchard was difficult and often no up to date or accurate information was available for production costs defined to accurate areas of land under production. Inventory planning was time consuming and inaccurate, resulting in potential losses due to materials not being available or poorly substituted. Inventory usage defined to areas of land was inaccurate and nonexistent at times.
Requirements: Implement solution to accurately capture location of inventory consumption (to cost centre), inventory planning, farming task recording.
Solution Implemented:ProducePak Farm ERP, Farm PDA Mobile Solution
Improved cash flow,
accurate farm cost reporting,
enhanced inventory planning.
Main Benefits:
Production Cost Reporting: The Farm PDA mobile solution allows staff to capture the farming tasks performed on-site at multiple farms during the normal working process. This information is synchronised with ProducePak daily to collect new tasks and register completed tasks, allowing management instant cost reporting at any time. Farm managers are also now able to easily identify any potential problems with employee task performance.
Inventory Planning: The ProducePak Farm ERP solution provides the ability to predict required quantities of inventory and labour required during the farming process. Planning is performed by comparing a monthly materials analysis report to ensure just in time inventory delivery from suppliers and arrange labour resources.
Summary: Soktas obtained significant savings from improved response time for employee tasks. Inventory planning improved inventory availability and freed up cash flow due to better planning. Management now has access to new reporting tools allowing accurate analysis of costs for each orchard; this information is now used to make informed marketing decisions for sales of produce.
Source: www.ProducePak.com
