What Is This Already Costing You?
Three costs most growing operations carry without measuring: shipping air, retyping orders, and racks that never come back. Change the numbers to match your operation — the arithmetic is shown, and nothing is hidden.
Shipping air
A rack that goes out three-quarters full costs the same to ship as a full one. The difference is invisible on any single load and substantial across a season.
Retyping orders
Time spent keying orders that arrived by phone, email or fax — and the same time spent again when something has to be corrected downstream.
Racks that never come back
Returnable equipment is a capital cost that tends to get written off as a cost of doing business — largely because nobody has the numbers to argue otherwise.
Taken together
How to read this
This is not a promise about what GrowerLive would save you, and the second column is not our estimate — it is your estimate, because you set the improvement percentages. What the calculator does is put a number on costs that usually go unmeasured, using arithmetic you can check.
The defaults are plausible figures for a mid-size operation, not a guess about yours. Replace them with what you actually know and the totals become worth arguing about — which is the useful state for a number like this to be in.
Where software helps is narrower than a total like this suggests: rack fill projected while an order is still open rather than discovered at the dock, orders that carry through to delivery without re-entry, and container tracking that turns a write-off into a conversation with a record behind it. Whether that closes your gap is a fair question to put to us directly.
Bring us your numbers
If your figures say the gap is small, that is genuinely useful to know before either of us spends time on a demo. If they say it is large, we should talk.