Case study
Multi-site vegetable packer halves stock write-offs
A potato, onion and carrot packer with three sites and about 140 staff cut weekly reporting from 14 hours to 3 and halved stock write-offs within six months of switching on Pak-Bot.
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At a glance
Admin time on reports14 → 3 h/week
Packed stock written off3.5% → 1.6% of volume
New retailer label set-up2 days → under 1 hour
Ad-hoc stock questionNext business day → under 1 minute
The challenge
- Sales, stock and yield reports built by hand every Monday – about 14 hours a week
- Managers waited until the next day for stock answers
- Ageing pallets hidden behind newer ones – about 3.5% of packed volume dumped or discounted
- Each new retailer label took up to two days
The solution
- Plain-English reports and charts from Pak-Bot, e-mailed from the chat
- Supervisors ask stock questions on phones and tablets, limited to their own site
- FIFO guardrail flags newer pallets scanned while older ones remain
- Predictive waste warnings from stock age and packing speed
- Retailer labels generated from the spec sheet
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| Benefit | Estimate | Annual value |
|---|---|---|
| Less stock written off | 3.5% → 1.6% of ≈ AU$9.2M packed stock | AU$175,000 |
| Report time saved | 11 h/week × 52 × AU$45/h | AU$25,700 |
| Faster label set-up | ≈ 10 formats a year, 2 days → under 1 hour | AU$7,000 |
| Total | AU$207,700 |
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Is this a real Producepak customer?
Yes. Results are as published by Producepak; some customers asked for their names to be withheld.
How were the savings estimated?
From the before-and-after figures in the table, using the rates shown. They are the customer's estimates, not guarantees.