Generic manufacturing software assumes you can make more of something whenever you want. Growing does not work like that. You commit space months ahead, the crop finishes when it finishes, and if you get the allocation wrong you are either short or dumping product.
Lots, ready dates, and traceability
Production is tracked as lots, each carrying its production date, its ready date, its status, and who created it. That gives you the traceability retail partners increasingly ask for, and it gives your sales team something more useful than a yes-or-no on availability: they can see when the next batch will be ready and sell against it.
Assemblies and components handle combination goods — a mixed container built from several crops is one sellable item made of parts, and the system understands the relationship rather than making you fake it with a note.
Planning against space you actually have
Zones carry square-footage capacity and items carry their own footprint, so space is a number the system can reason about rather than something living in a grower’s head. You choose what happens when a zone is over capacity: block the placement, or allow it and flag it for review. That decision belongs to you, not to us.
The weekly grow-and-ship rhythm
Most of the year, a grower’s week has the same shape. GrowerLive follows it:
- Commit the window — define a season as a range of grower weeks and the customer markets participating in it
- Allocate the output — set what share of each product goes to each market, as percentages that have to add up
- Release by the day — plan the week day by day against what is genuinely ready, with must-sell and committed quantities in front of you
- Pick against the plan — pull tags print from the release plan and move stock into staging as they print
That last detail matters more than it sounds. Because printing a pull tag moves the inventory, the paper in a picker’s hand and the quantity in the system never drift apart. There is no reconciliation step later because there is nothing to reconcile.
Work the crew can see
A production task board tracks what needs doing and who is doing it, so the plan is not just a document that lives with one person. Tasks, goods, and space all sit in the same system as the orders they exist to fill.