Know your cost while it's still growing.
Recipes tied to lots tied to cost, space planned to the week, labor scheduled to the block. Cost becomes a number you watch, not a surprise you survive.
Six areas, one record.
- Production schedule The season as a lot, job, and step tree, planned to the week.
- Recipes & costing The growing spec, with a live cost rollup per unit.
- Catalog & materials Production items and purchasable materials with vendor costs.
- Purchasing Vendor purchase orders, from draft to shipped, plus spend.
- Labor Planned hours from the production plan, assigned to workers.
- Space & capacity Space taxonomy, overhead rates, and utilization by week.
What it does
The whole season, planned to the week
Every lot breaks into jobs and steps with grow weeks, start weeks, and ready weeks. Reschedule, reassign, or archive in bulk, and import whole seasons from CSV.
- Lot, job, and step tree with start and ready weeks
- Bulk reschedule and customer or location overrides
- CSV import with validation and inline error correction
- Per-job cost breakdown in the side panel
Every crop has a recipe, every recipe has a cost
Recipes carry grow weeks, plants per pot, and yield, plus the bill of materials behind them. Costs roll up live from materials, labor, and overhead, and flag exactly what is missing.
- Variations with grow weeks, plants per pot, and yield
- Bill of materials per variation
- Live cost rollup: materials, labor, overhead per unit
- Cost readiness flags say exactly why a cost is incomplete
The catalog behind the plan
A three-level catalog ties genus and series to pack sizes and concrete production items, and every purchasable material carries costs per vendor with a default.
- Catalog, category, and production item, with labor-cost inheritance
- Materials with multiple vendor prices and effective dates
- Default vendor starred per material
The buy side, on the same record
Raise vendor purchase orders and walk them from draft to approved to shipped, with editable line items on the way. Spend rolls up by vendor, period over period.
- PO lifecycle: draft, approved, shipped, with cancel and revert
- Line items editable while draft or approved
- Vendors with per-material cost history
- Spend by vendor with average unit cost, period over period
Labor demand falls out of the plan
The production schedule turns into planned hours by date, task type, and block. Assign workers against it, and double bookings get flagged before the day starts.
- Planned hours by date, task, and block, in list and pivot views
- Single and bulk worker assignment
- Same-day double bookings flagged
- Labor types and hourly rates, effective-dated per site
See the crunch while it can still move
Space categories carry real footprints, overhead carries a dollars-per-square-foot-week rate, and utilization renders by location and week with over-capacity weeks flagged red.
- Space categories with length-by-width footprints
- Overhead rates per site, effective-dated, inherited by sub-locations
- Utilization by location and week, over-capacity flagged red
- Drill from any week to the plans filling it
PRODUCE™ is a big improvement in production planning for our company. The biggest upgrade for us is the ability to link space planning with production planning. The support is good, and we are able to have detailed conversations with people who understand our challenges and work-flows. The leadership at Silver Fern has a wealth of industry knowledge and first-hand experience.