FarmSoft delivers a comprehensive selection of solutions where all common features are included in the bundle.  FarmSoft clients choose which modules they wish to implement, creating a simple solution or a comprehensive packhouse management system. FarmSoft Packhouse also integrates seamlessly with FarmSoft Farm ERP to deliver a business wide enterprise strength solution.

FarmSoft Packhouse Management Feature Summary

• Incoming Fresh Produce Management - Comprehensive management of all incoming produce, from your own farm, or direct from external suppliers, importers, or from co-operative suppliers.
• Fresh Produce Inventory - Complete management and tracking of all fresh produce across the entire Packhouse, or multiple packhouses
• Batch Packing Management - Batch based management of packing produces carton level traceability for all fresh produce packed in the pack shed.  Plan packing work, and assign materials to each batch.
• Sales & Shipping - Easily manage the sales and shipping processes with comprehensive and easy to use sales and shipping processes and reporting
• Packhouse Traceability - FarmSoft’s thousands of built in processes bring bullet proof traceability to your pack shed, from the moment fresh produce arrives or is ordered (or even prior to planting if you are using FarmSoft Farm Management ERP) – traceability is being automatically enforced and remains audit-able at all times.
• Mobile Packhouse Inventory - Empower pack shed employees with mobile inventory management systems available for PDA (with barcode scanning), smartphones, and industrial & domestic tablets.
• Packing Materials Management - Manage packing materials such as cartons, returnable plastic crates, labels and more.  Alerts for re-ordering materials, stock takes and more…
• Order Management - Generate purchase orders to acquire raw produce, packed produce, or wholesale produce from external suppliers.  Manage sales orders from customers and use the demand information to plan packing tasks
• Fresh Produce Labeling -  Extensive labeling from shipping container, pallet, trade unit, consumer unit, to individual fruit labeling.  Ensure case level traceability with ease. Produce Traceability Initiative / PTI style, GS1 barcodes, tailoring of labels to your specifications, and more.
• Temperature & Ripening Zone Management - Automatic management and enforcement of temperature zone rules based on produce and variety type, stops storage of produce in a no-n approved zone, pre-set ripening programs alert users to move produce when ripening processes  have been completed
• Packing Services & Co-operatives - Generate invoices for packing services, create unlimited packing charges and fees for the Packhouse, bill customers (suppliers, customers, farms) for packing, storage, sorting, quality control, and other packing services.
• Performance & Cost Analysis - Comprehensive reporting of pack shed KPI gives management new performance monitoring tools…
• Multi-Packhouse Management  - FarmSoft can run multiple packhouses at the same time, allowing larger packing co-operatives to delegate individual management teams to each Packhouse, whilst separating inventory and packing processes between packhouses
• Mobile Packhouse Monitoring - With only a few swipes of your finger, see the performance of the days packing on your smartphone, no matter where you are…

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