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103 articles on technology from the team building the operating system for growers.

Impact of Sell through on Pay by Scan for Grower Revenue
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Impact of Sell through on Pay by Scan for Grower Revenue

Sell through units show how effective the store was at moving the units delivered and sell through dollars shows how effective the store was at moving the full retail value of the units.

What to Expect When Onboarding Your New AGS Grower Software
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What to Expect When Onboarding Your New AGS Grower Software

When a new grower considers joining AGS, we know the onboarding process can seem overwhelming, especially when there is so much data involved. Advanced Grower Solutions (AGS) is happy to provide our customers with a first-class onboarding experience. Our goal is to make the process as efficient and smooth as possible so that you can grow your business!

Pay By Scan Vs Purchase Order Business Models For Growers
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Pay By Scan Vs Purchase Order Business Models For Growers

A grower and a customer can transact business in many ways. When a grower is selling to larger regional or national retail chains there are two dominant models: purchase order (or PO business) and Pay By Scan, which is also referred to as vendor managed inventory.

11 Ways We Eliminated Growers Excel Pain Points
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11 Ways We Eliminated Growers Excel Pain Points

Advanced Grower Solutions has helped many of our clients improve their use/automation or output of Excel and save their employees time and get crucial data reports, analysis, and metrics much sooner.

7 Ways to Increase ROI for Grower Software Purchases
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7 Ways to Increase ROI for Grower Software Purchases

When you decide to purchase a new software system it is worth the time and effort to explicitly determine what the results are you want out of the system for your business. Here are a few ways to help improve the return on investment of your software purchases.

What We Have Learned After Building Almost a Million SageX3 Routing Records
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What We Have Learned After Building Almost a Million SageX3 Routing Records

Good grower software should help you accomplish your tasks as a grower. One of those tasks is recording and maintaining the right steps (or operations) and resources that you use to create or manufacture a given item you sell.

How To Overcome Common Inventory Replenishment Challenges
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How To Overcome Common Inventory Replenishment Challenges

Advanced Grower Solutions has a lot of experience with replenishment in the live goods industry and has several products and services to help growers and seasonal product producers overcome their replenishment challenges.

Improve Sage X3 Productivity and Return With AGS Data Import Tools
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Improve Sage X3 Productivity and Return With AGS Data Import Tools

As with any other ERP system, Sage X3 houses millions of data records of all the complexity in an integrated business. A majority of these data records do not get into the system automatically; they get in there through MANUAL DATA ENTRY.

What Happens When Your Software Provider is Unable to  Provide Support?
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What Happens When Your Software Provider is Unable to Provide Support?

You’ve accumulated years of data that you use on a daily basis. If your old software is no longer available, read these tips to be sure your critical data can be converted to the new software.

8 Reasons Growers Need ERP Software
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8 Reasons Growers Need ERP Software

If your operation is still using some combination of tools like Excel and QuickBooks or similar for running your grower or live goods operation you need to read this article.

Introducing GrowerEDI
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Introducing GrowerEDI

GrowerEDI provides a knowledgeable, experienced data partner that can ease the EDI onboarding and integration process, improve data flows, automate interactions, and provide the data transformations to give you actionable, usable data.

How to Save Time and Money When Doing a Mass Update
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How to Save Time and Money When Doing a Mass Update

It will save you time and money by doing a mass update instead of adding one at a time using the online tools. We are happy to assist you in inputting all of this information.