Steps to improve packhouse inventory management
Improve packhouse inventory management with Producepak: easy inventory stock-take, fanatical traceability, easy recalls, eliminate packhouse inventory waste, automatic fresh produce inventory traceability.
1. Improve packhouse inventory management: Comprehensive stock-take processes
Every packhouse should know exactly what inventory is stored where, at all times, live. There is no excuse for having to look up spreadsheets, or find a clipboard to access this information that everyone should be able to access from their cell, tablet, or PC/Mac from any location.
You can have access to this info anytime! The Producepak Packhouse Inventory Management App allows stock-takes to be performed at your chosen intervals, ensuring you have absolute confidence of the reported inventory balances in each warehouse or cooler.
This information is great for planning orders / harvest requests, and planning the overall packing process if you 'pack to order', resulting in reduced waste.
2. Improve packhouse inventory management: Automatic traceability
Traceability is built into every facet of Producepak. Traceability is being automatically managed throughout every operation and action that users take, ensuring not only extreme levels of traceability, but also accurate inventory management across the entire business.
Allowing automated inventory management in your packhouse ensures that traceability is maintained without the possibility of human error. Using Producepak, your team can scan bins/tray/pallet into a batch as a 'batch input'. This inventory management process ensures we know the providence of the fresh produce inputs, this data is kept on a Batch record and all Batch outputs can be traced back to multiple suppliers of one batch.
3. Improve packhouse inventory management: FIFO management of packhouse inventory
In a busy packhouse, its all too possible to accidentally use inventory as a batch input, or sell inventory that isn't the oldest inventory available across the packhouse if you are not running a system that manages these processes and forces the correct FIFO (first in, first out) consumption of inventory, or expiry date consumption of inventory.
Using the Producepak inventory app, you an ensure FIFO is adhered to automatically, and users are alerted if they attempt to use an inventory that isn't the oldest or most appropriate for its use.
4. Improve packhouse inventory management: Automatic waste measurement
Without an inventory management system in the packhouse, management can't confidently measure, or even be aware of waste unless they are physically looking at it.
The Producepak Packhouse Inventory app sends alerts to packhouse managers at the end of each batch, reporting on waste, and even a breakdown of the pack-out and grades.
5. Improve packhouse inventory management: Automated grower pack-out reporting and grower payments
If you pack for other growers or farmers, you are fully aware of the myriad challenges tracking the growers inventory, then reporting back to them about the finished products you produced from their fresh produce. This process can be extremely time consuming, error prone, and can result in diminished satisfaction of your 'customer' (the grower / farmer).
Using Producepak, grower payment invoices are automatically generated based on a sophisticated configuration of your choice of commission, per unit pack rate, arbitrary labor and overhead costs, and virtually any other fee or method of charging the grower for packing. You can even generate documents that deduct these fees from the sale value of the finished product, instantly determining the balance you need to pay to the grower if you are marketing their fresh produce.
6. Improve packhouse inventory management: Automated generation of reports, labels, and KPI's
The cost of applying incorrect labels to inventory can be significant; from rejections (you have to pay to ship the inventory again) or merely the cost of having to re-label the inventory if you spot the error before you ship it. Producepak generates the correct label for each product you pack, ensuring exact labels are applied to correct inventory, users don't have to think about what labels are required, it just works.
Without a packhouse inventory management solution, the cost of generating pack-out, inventory, and packing profit reports can be high. Administrators have better things to do. Use Producepak to automatically generate packhouse inventory reports, and free up your team for more important, less mundane activities.