Labour
Labour planned the night before
Crews and transport are set from a spreadsheet and a phone, and cost per kilo is only known once the week has closed.
Fresh produce
For growers, packers, importers and marketers supplying UK retail, where harvest, packhouse and sales data rarely meet in one place.
Three problems we see most often, and where we would usually start.
Labour
Crews and transport are set from a spreadsheet and a phone, and cost per kilo is only known once the week has closed.
Forecasting
What is in the ground and what customers will order are forecast by different teams, so gaps appear too late to fix cheaply.
Reporting
Retailer downloads, reconciliations and the weekly pack are assembled by hand by the people who should be acting on them.
Each product is set up around the systems you already run.
Tell us which systems you run and which jobs take longest each week. We'll come back with where we'd start and what it could be worth.