You commit space months ahead and schedule each crop to a ready week, and a cloudy spring can still move it. Get the allocation wrong and you’re either short or dumping product.
Lots and ready dates
Production is tracked as lots, each carrying its production date, its ready date, its status, and who created it. That gives your sales team something more useful than a yes-or-no on availability: they can see the next ready date and sell against it.
Assemblies and components handle combos: a mixed container built from several plants 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 each crop’s spacing requirements say how much room it needs as it grows, so the system can plan against the space you have. 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
In shipping season, growers who supply retail programs work a weekly cycle. 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
- Pull 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. Printing a pull tag moves the stock into staging, so the tag in the puller’s hand and the system start out matching. When a pull comes up short, you finalize what actually shipped and inventory follows.
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.