Sold Out After Your Season – Optimize Your Plant Nursery with Software

From keeping track of a multitude of plant varieties to ensuring each one finds a buyer, the challenges of a grower can be overwhelming. Let's delve into these challenges and how Mprise Agriware can provide solutions to ensure you’re not just growing plants but successfully selling them.

_{The Challenges of Growing and Selling plants}

1. Inventory management: What's in stock?

Greenhouse growers often grow a wide range of plant varieties, each with its own growing requirements and sales potential. Keeping track of what’s blooming, what’s ready for sale, and what needs more time can be a logistical challenge. The complexity increases when dealing with seasonal plants or those with specific blooming periods. Tracking the movement of each batch, from seedling to sale, is essential for managing inventory and understanding yield. Without an accurate tracking system, it’s easy to lose sight of plants, resulting in wastage and inefficiency.  

2. Effectively communicating the availability of products to customers

Informing your customers about plant availability is crucial for sales. However, doing this effectively requires timely and accurate information. Your sales team needs to be informed about which plants are blooming or soon-to-be-available so they can proactively engage with customers. Without real-time updates, the team may miss opportunities to sell, leading to unsold inventory and lost revenue.

3. How to deal: Overselling, underselling, or delays?

Creating and fulfilling orders from stock requires precision. You need to deal with long term contracts but also last minute orders. Clear insight in the available products to promise is key in this process. Mismanagement can lead to overselling, underselling, or delays in order fulfillment, all of which negatively impact customer satisfaction and your bottom line.

Your sales team needs to be informed about which plants are blooming or soon-to-be-available so they can proactively engage with customers

What if your sales team could be notified when plants are blooming or about to be available? This way, they can proactively engage with customers.

_{How Mprise Agriware Solves These Challenges}

We face these challenges daily. Mprise Agriware provides a comprehensive software solution tailored to the horticultural industry, addressing all these specific issues. Our teams know the ins- and outs.

1. Inventory management: Real time stock levels

Agriware offers robust tracking features that allow you to monitor every plant's journey from seedling to sale. Every activity and movement can be tracked down in the system, by (mobile) logging of every production step. Want to make it even easier? Our standard integrations with greenhouse automation can take care of all automated activities and translated and keeps the stock levels up-to-date.

Producing on concrete floor, our partnership with Corvus Drones offers autonomous cycle counting via drone image recognition. These solutions ensures accurate inventory management and helps you estimate your yield better.  

2. Availability: Share with sales people and customers

Now the systems inventory is reliable, it’s time to translate stock to sales availability. Using Agriware your sales people have direct insight in what’s available to sell. The not only have insight in current stock levels, insight in future availability is projected based on current production status and remaining growth times and expected waste. Everything is available in the cloud, so the information always is just one click away, wherever, whenever.  

The next level is to publish your availability to your customers via e-mail, digital integration (EDI) or your B2B customer portal. Once you have your inventory management under control, this will be only a small next step to realize. Simplifying your availability management and reducing the risk of oversight.

Publish your availability to your customers via e-mail, digital integration (EDI) or your B2B customer portal.

3. Order management: Match orders with availability perfectly

Now sales availability is perfectly clear, taking in the orders is the ultimate goals. Our solution provides the perfect tools to finetune the order intake to make sure you can keep your promise when delivering. It can always happen the suddenly ran out of stock, direct insight in replacing items will help you finding the best alternative for the customer. In case you are selling a mix, the exact colors might differ a bit. Especially for that situation, Agriware brings the orders and actual tock together to finetune the sales items and item BOM’s in line with the actual stock so you never have to say no to a customer.

Being sold out every week requires control over your internal process and the right software to optimally support this, without the need of extensive logging.

Mprise Agriware is dealing with this challenge for over 15 years already and have implemented it’s software on global scale. Interested how we could help you to tackle these kind of difficulties? Contact our team.

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