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Grower technology, horticulture operations, and product news from the team building the operating system for the growers who run nurseries, greenhouses, and orchards.

Google Analytics 4 Grower Guide
Operations

Google Analytics 4 Grower Guide

This guide will discuss Google Analytics 4 (GA4), exploring its key differences from the previous version, Universal Analytics. We’ll also discuss how to incorporate Google Search Console into GA4 and highlight some exciting new features to help you make the most of this advanced analytics tool.

What Is A Forecast Worth?
Operations

What Is A Forecast Worth?

A good forecast is not a guess at these future quantities, but a data and scenario driven calculated, statistical outcome where the best experience, knowledge, data and customer/market information drive cogent assumptions and plans for future states.

How To Calculate the Load Capacity on a Truck
Technology

How To Calculate the Load Capacity on a Truck

The most basic definition of load factor is “the load that is actually carried compared to the maximum load that could have been carried in a load unit” or, to be a little geekier, “the ratio of the average load to total vehicle freight capacity.”

5 Reasons Every Grower Needs A Software System
Technology

5 Reasons Every Grower Needs A Software System

Much like an automated seeder, soil handler, or tree harvester, good grower software becomes a force multiplier in your business.

What is an 852 EDI Product Activity Data Document?
Technology

What is an 852 EDI Product Activity Data Document?

Many retailers benefit from their EDI 852 data. It provides the retailer with the detailed product activity of the items they are selling in their locations.

Strategies & Tactics You Need To Know To Improve Your Forecasting Success
Horticulture

Strategies & Tactics You Need To Know To Improve Your Forecasting Success

You need to know where you are going and then build a realistic forecast, based on data, acceptable from your management team, attainable and achieving the company’s P/L objectives.

Five Grower Margin Erosion Causes and What To Do About It
Technology

Five Grower Margin Erosion Causes and What To Do About It

It is important that growers understand sources of margin erosion and adjust their operational and data habits to provide visibility and metrics which can help identify problems before the situation becomes serious.

What is a 753 EDI Document? Lowes Required Ready To Ship
Technology

What is a 753 EDI Document? Lowes Required Ready To Ship

A 753 Ready To Ship document or also referred to with other retailers as the Request for Routing Instructions.

What You Need to Know About the Washington Cares Fund
Company News

What You Need to Know About the Washington Cares Fund

Be prepared with GrowPoint to implement the Washing Cares Fund on July 1, 2023. The reporting will coincide with the Washing Paid Family Leave on your quarterly Unemployment report with the ESD. For additional information, check out the website at WA Cares Fund – Long-Term Care Benefits.

How And Why Growers Should Calculate Price Increases When Costs Change?
Operations

How And Why Growers Should Calculate Price Increases When Costs Change?

We will look at using industry cost increase data and see how that impacts our profits and pricing.

Top Four Most Important Insights from the Nursery Management State of the Industry Report
Operations

Top Four Most Important Insights from the Nursery Management State of the Industry Report

The report can help growers to identify areas they can improve so that they will be poised for growth. Nurseries that can adapt to these trends and challenges will be better positioned for success in the years ahead.

Do What We Did Last Year Is Not The Strategy You Are Looking For
Operations

Do What We Did Last Year Is Not The Strategy You Are Looking For

In this very simple model there are three key components to thinking about strategy: destination, actions, and time frame.