Solutions: Agricultural: Growers
RedLine Solutions for the Grower
The challenge of the Grower is to grow and harvest quality crops as efficiently as possible while adhering to FDA regulations for traceability back to the source. Today the majority of growers rely on personal knowledge and hand-written notes taken by crew leaders regarding the growing process. Information about planting dates, watering schedules, fertilizing and pesticide records and plant locations are usually recorded on forms and input into host growing software or in manual files. In addition, the majority of harvesting systems today record field labor and packing information manually.
But there is a better way. Automated data collection increases operational efficiency to track growing process and associated labor collection.
Some common data collection and processing issues for growers:
The RedLine Advantage:
RedLine’s applications leverage our knowledge of best practices for Growers for product identification, tracking, and reporting. The applications are modular in design allowing them to be used alone or in conjunction with other modules.
This system allows tracking of product from receipt through time of shipment. It can be used as a stand-alone application or to supply data to customers’ business applications including: EDI, accounting systems, and QA Systems.
The system is used to track field production and harvest information, location, and encourage and enforce FIFO shipment as well as other critical business processes.
Redline provides:
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The challenge of the Grower is to grow and harvest quality crops as efficiently as possible while adhering to FDA regulations for traceability back to the source. Today the majority of growers rely on personal knowledge and hand-written notes taken by crew leaders regarding the growing process. Information about planting dates, watering schedules, fertilizing and pesticide records and plant locations are usually recorded on forms and input into host growing software or in manual files. In addition, the majority of harvesting systems today record field labor and packing information manually.
But there is a better way. Automated data collection increases operational efficiency to track growing process and associated labor collection.
Some common data collection and processing issues for growers:
- Difficulty in recording and analyzing data on the growing process
- Need data for production planning, job costing, and space and growth optimization
- Difficult to deliver consistency of process
- Recording and transferring field labor collection, both hours and piece-work for payroll
- Need to search for manual records if a labor claim is made
- Bottleneck at labor reporting locations
- Need for timely information from geographically dispersed locations
The RedLine Advantage:
RedLine’s applications leverage our knowledge of best practices for Growers for product identification, tracking, and reporting. The applications are modular in design allowing them to be used alone or in conjunction with other modules.
This system allows tracking of product from receipt through time of shipment. It can be used as a stand-alone application or to supply data to customers’ business applications including: EDI, accounting systems, and QA Systems.
The system is used to track field production and harvest information, location, and encourage and enforce FIFO shipment as well as other critical business processes.
Redline provides:
- Track field production operations
- Track harvest lot info by block
- Automated field labor collection for payroll
- Flexible easy-to-configure labeling of bins and pallets
- Labor management and visibility into worker productivity
- Integration with back-end systems
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