Agevo

The Advanced Packhouse module provides a powerful set of features for pack houses that regularly handle, pack and market other growers produce. Advanced Packhouse allows you set up fully customisable fee structures and grower pools for each or all growers. There is no need to calculate what to charge or how much you need to pay the grower for your services as Advanced packhouse will do this for you at the click of a button.  

The primary focus of the advanced packhouse module is to:

• Allow you to charge growers for your services.
• Set up any number of custom fee templates for single or groups of growers..
• Generate batch returns using estimated sales prices.
• Generate batch returns with or without actual prices..
• Generate Period returns for each grower over a date range.
• Print Returns for growers detailing all produce, packout, charges, sales, unsold, pooled and unpooled for the batch or batches in a return period.

Your business will benefit from

• Reduced hours spent calculating whats been sold, what hasnt, what needs to be paid, who gets paid and what to charge.
• Automatic calculation of grower return amounts and quantities based on weight for packing runs containing multiple growers produce. i.e. the ratio of weight added to a production run for each grower is used to determine the ratio of packed traded units.
• Recording multiple grower payments against grower returns, therefore knowing what is outstanding at a glance.
• Having the ability to determine what stock arrived, when it arrived, who owns it, where it came from, what was packed out and who it was sold to.
• Printing reports detailing Grower arrivals, Packouts, Sales and Totals.
• Having the ability to automate the pooling process whereby same items (Traded Units) across multiple growers have their sales price & transport costs averaged across the pooled growers.
• Knowing when to regenerate the grower returns due to consignment, pricing, shipping and payment changes have occured to a growers produce, therefore allerting you

Feature Summary

• Create an unlimited number of custom fee charges.
• Create unlimited fee templates consisting of custom fees. e.g. Create a fee template for a particular produce type and apply it to the growers who always provide good quality produce.
• All fees can be global or grower specific. 
• Fees include: Traded Unit Fee, % Revenue, Bin Storage, Bin Usage, Arrival Fee, Cartage Fee, Packaging Fee (cost of inventory plus % markup), Harvest Fee, Packing Labour fee (cost of labour plus % markup) as well as levy charges and the standard transport fees.
•  Give the fees an alias name that is releveant to your business operations. 
• Create grower pools so that sale prices and transport fees for same traded units averaged across a select group of growers.
• Create individual batch returns for growers.
• Create Return periods for growers containing all batches within the period date range. 
• Print returns for growers.
• Keep track of what is owing and what has been paid to growers. 
• Make part payments to growers and record it in the system.
• Generate returns based on estimated prices rather than waiting for prices to come back from customers/agents. (where previous agreements have been made for growers to accept this method of payment)
• Know when details in a return period have been changed so that the return can be regenerated.

Summary

agevo Farm Manager Pack House Management allows the pack house to operate more efficiently, whilst automatically managing costs for labour and materials; and automatically performing traceability throughout the businesses operations.  The system covers the entire pack house processes including incoming stock management, quality management, stock and inventory management, purchase orders, sales orders, consignment and dispatch, and sales analysis. 

With agevo Farm Manager Pack House Management, businesses experience improved profit, improved cost control, and increased traceability.