What Is This Already Costing You?
Three costs worth putting a number on: shipping air, retyping orders, and equipment that never comes back. Change the numbers to match your operation. Every assumption is one of the fields below.
Shipping air
A rack that goes out three-quarters full costs the same to ship as a full one. You see the empty shelves on every load. What’s harder to see is what they add up to over 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.
Equipment that never comes back
Racks, carts and pallets left with customers get chased, swapped and eventually written off. Put a yearly number on what that costs you.
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.
Fuller racks save money when they take a truck or a stop off the road, or when an order writer fills out a store’s last rack. A few racks off a truck that still makes the same stops saves very little.
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 rack and cart 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.