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ProducePak Farm Management and ERP
ProducePak provides a powerful suite of software solutions which make every day business easier and more profitable – whilst allowing you to maintain higher quality, staff performance, cost control, and traceability levels.
The primary focus of the system is to improve:
- business control
- traceability practices
- business profit enhancement
- cost management and control
- budget management
- staff accountability and management practices
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Immediate Business Benifits
- improved profit in most areas of business
- improve staff efficiency
- reduce duplication & redundancy
- decrease management response time
- improve reporting, analysis, and business monitoring
- Instant cost reporting, live at any time!
- Streamline & automatically manage processes
- Enforce operational standards
- Create full traceability of all produce handling in all business areas
- Easy audits and traceability management
Premium ERP & Small Business Editions
ProducePak is now available in a Small Business Edition which concentrates on improving traceability, and quality control.
The ProducePak Premium ERP version concentrates on profit management and enhancement, staff and labour control, traceability, budget management, business process improvement, and quality management.
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Feature Summary
- Prepare production budgets prior to the start of each seasons growing, to improve materials, labour, and cash flow planning
- Monitor budgets on a daily basis to identify budget overruns
- Profit reporting down to individual areas of land at any time during the production process
- Automatically generate staff tasks and instructions to improve staff management
- Comprehensive production task management for ALL production activities including Spray, Timesheets, Irrigation, Machinery Plant & Equipment Maintenance, Block Inputs, Planting, Harvesting, and more…
- Comprehensive activity monitoring systems to identify mistakes and deviations during the production process; allowing management to make corrective actions before incorrect practices or tasks cost produce quality/yield or effect profitability
- Automatic traceability of materials and labour used in production; instant recall from block, crop, and material inputs
- Comprehensive inventory management to improve resource utilisation and reduce waste includes traceability for inventory batches and integrates automatically with recall and traceability systems. Purchase Order generation, stock takes for multiple sites and depots, inventory intake traceability, inter-company purchase orders and inventory acquisition processes
- PC Interface as well as optional Mobile Farm Software which allows staff to synchronise production tasks to the PDA, record tasks and actual material consumption out in the field, and then synchronise data with the ProducePak server to allow management staff to monitor activities and update budget information
- Integrate with financial packages
- Integrate with payroll packages
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Scheduling & Activity Monitor
For each produce type, and each season, staff can setup standard Production Programme’s which may include any number of tasks and suggested dates, durations, materials, and labour and how they should be undertaken according to the age of the crop, eg: for a Capsicum Crop in summer;
- fertilise with Gypsum 10 days prior to planting
- Apply Plastic at least 5 days Prior to planting
- Spray with Abmectin at least 1 day prior to planting
- Spray with X, X days after plant
- Etc…
Features:
- configure the businesses standard production methods specify duration of tasks, materials used, labour used, equipment used
- trail, analyse and compare new production methods
- automatic scheduling of production tasks for each block for the entire season
- Monitor activities during production to compare ‘estimated’ with ‘actual’
Benefits:
- When important staff go on holidays or need to be replaced, their knowledge of normal operations is retained in ProducePak and can easily be accessed by management and new staff.
- Increase profitability by standardising production practices across the entire business
- Stops production staff from forgetting important tasks, resulting in increased yield and profitability
- Ensures correct quantities and methods are enforced, increasing business profit
- Allows the development and analysis of new production methodologies to improve production efficiency
- Rapidly Identify production mistakes and anomalies for production activities, allowing management to take corrective action; resulting in improved yield and profitability
Budgeting
Used in conjunction with the Scheduling module, the Budgeting module allows the creation of budgets that detail all of the labour, materials, quantities, and dates required; for the entire production season on a block by block basis. This allows management to better plan financial resources, and production management can co-ordinate materials and labour requirements. During production, various levels of management can continually compare “estimated” with “actual” consumption for the cost of materials, and labour.
Features:
- generate entire budgets for each block, before production commences
- trial different production methodologies to fine tune budget and cash flow requirements
- monitor ‘estimated’ and ‘actual’ budget during the production season
- Budgets by: Detail, Item, Category Summary, and Date Range
- Production Costs Reporting
- Production Profit Reporting
Features:
- Become a ‘lean manufacturer’ by arranging materials and labour resources to be delivered Just In Time, maximising business cash flow
- Detect budget over/under runs immediately and take corrective action, resulting in improved cost control and profitability
- Make financial decisions and improve financial planning based on full budgeting information being available before each season starts
- Remove ‘nasty cash flow’ surprises that may result from a lack of budget planning
- Compare profitability of selected production methodologies to choose new production methods; resulting in increased business profitability
- Comprehensive cost control avoids budget blow outs and allows management to be aware of any problems immediately
Block History
The Block History module allows tracking of historical observations and scientific data.
Features:
- Record SAP, Quality, Production, Soil Notes, Irrigation Notes, IPM notes.
- Attach files such as PDF & word doc’s.
- These records can later be searched to allow prevention of repetitive problems.
- Report on any specific block or crop between a date range
Benefits:
- If an incident such as a mistake or production anomaly occurs in the business, recording relevant observations and checking observations for the same block during the next season can prevent the same mistake/incident from occurring next season. This obviously creates a cost savings or profit enhancement for the business.
- Maintain important production observations, even if key production staff cease employment with your business.
- allows staff to keep a record of production incidents and soil behaviour, thus, allowing more informed production decisions in the future.
Note: this item is AVAILABLE in the ERP Edition only, however, is NOT included in the standard ERP Edition unless otherwise stated.
Farm Diary
The Farm Diary allows a graphical representation of all of the tasks being carried out on the farm/s. The diary is used for planning and monitoring purposes, as well as recording traceability (HACCP, EurepGAP, ISO) standards.
Features:
- Record Spray, Irrigation, Water, Planting, Block Inputs, Harvest, and virtually ANY task that is performed during production
- Costs are automatically allocated to each Block
- Automatically maintain traceability of materials used during production & automatic inventory allocation
- Generate staff/team instruction sheets
- View alerts for BHI / withholding periods etc
- Perform production cost analysis for each block
- Maintain labour traceability for all production tasks
- Visual display allows annual, monthly, weekly and daily views of production tasks filtered by selected Farm Site, or , Block, or Crop.
Benefits:
- Improve production planning by having a comprehensive plan prior to planting
- Improve staff management by being able to monitor staff activities and take corrective action where staff do not perform their tasks correctly
- Easy provision of instructions to production staff
- Increased control over materials used and authority to acquire production materials
Inventory
This module allows the management of all materials used in the business for both production and packing fruit and vegetable products. When Tasks are performed, the system automatically deducts the quantity of materials used from inventory. This allows constant tracking of the quantity of materials on hand.
Features:
- Create Purchase Orders to acquire inventory
- Receive Inventory functions
- Perform multi-site stock takes, and or multi-depot stock takes
- Authorise the use of inventory from various storage depots
- Unlimited storage depots, at unlimited sites
- Batch number traceability
- Batch number recall processes
- Easy ‘pending delivery’ analysis
Benefits:
- Increased control over inventory allows the business to reduce inventory waste and misappropriation; and improves profitability
- Enhanced inventory control allows the business to better manage the quantity of materials on hand, resulting in improved cash flow
Mobile Farm Management*
Allows production staff to use a PDA to view and record production activities during their normal work processes. The PDA can be carried to remote farming sites during this process; making data capture accurate and timely. Data can then be synchronized between the PDA and the main server.
Business Intelligence Module
Allows advanced ERP reporting and analysis of business activities, budgets, production methods, production costs, and traceability. This module has been developed by experts around the world to improve business profitability, cost control, and performance.
Financial Integration*
Export data to your companies financial package including, purchases, consumption, labor records for payroll, purchase orders, and other pertinent financial information.
* Note: this item is AVAILABLE in the ERP Edition only, however, is NOT included in the standard ERP Edition unless otherwise stated.
Summary
The system results in a higher profit for the business by providing comprehensive cost control, profit control, staff management, traceability management, and production activity management.
The system allows your business to continually identify new ways to improve profit through the development of new production methodologies and the ability to continually monitor and compare performance of every facet of the business.
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More profit, more cost control, more traceability
Farm Software Features/Modules & Benefits
Click on any of the modules below to learn more about their benefits and features.
Block History & Integrated Pest Management
Production Program
Production Scheduling
Crop Mapping
Farm Diary
Spray Diary
Water Diary / Irrigation Diary
Timesheets & Farm Labour
Crop Inputs & Crop Costs
Integrate with Farm Financial Package
Farming & Production Reports
Farm Inventory
Alerts & Messaging
Farm Equipment , Machinery & Service Monitor
HACCP Manager
Farm Software for Handhelds: If you are interested in Farm Software, you may also be interested in our Mobile Farm Management Software. [more...]
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