Coleslaw packing:

Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and slaw quality inspection.

Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and QC.

Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and slaw quality inspection.

Quality inspection for fresh produce

Consistent and accurate quality control ensures higher customer satisfaction and adherence to industry, de-facto, and in-house quality control standards. Track supplier quality performance, customer feedback & complaints, create QC tests for any part of the fresh produce & food manufacturing process (incoming goods, raw materials, finished goods, expiry test, export/shipping tests), daily factory hygiene, machinery calibration, employee checklists... 

Fresh produce logistics

Manage orders, pack to order, picking and auto picking, dispatch & shipping process. Generate invoices, bill of lading, pick slips, export documentation and other sales documents... Dispatch teams are guided through the dispatch process ensuring every order is filled perfectly, and on time. Paperwork such as BOL, freight documents, export documents are automatically generated based on the customer and destination to guarantee no rejected shipments or issues at borders.

Fresh produce labels

Generate fresh produce SSCC pallet labels, GS1 case & PTI labels, bin labels, batch labels, traded unit labels, harvest labels and more. Use the built in industry standard labels for Walmart, Woolworths, Aldi, Tesco, Loblaws etc - or design your own with the built in label & report designer. Our team can design all of your fresh produce documents to ensure farmsoft matches your requirements perfectly.

Fresh produce packing control

Sales, Quality, Profit, Dispatch, Pack, Farm...... Dashboards for sales teams provide instant impressions of customer orders and current inventory levels. The dispatch dashboard helps plan shipments, order of loading, and transport companies & drivers... The Profit analysis dashboard shows margins per unit and most profitable customers. Use our API to access your data however you like.

Fresh produce batch packing

Project required raw materials needed to pack/manufacture orders, potential shortages, schedule multiple orders to be packed in batches on selected production lines with a few clicks, automatically send new job alerts to managers, schedule additional harvests, analyze outstanding orders. Manage entire packing and manufacturing process with ease.

Fresh produce alerts monitoring

Automatic alerts for shipments can be sent to customers, transport providers, or even team members. Every time a batch is finished processing, receive an alert with the pack-out breakdown and percentages of grades & quality and waste. Alerts can include simple shipment notifications, or even invoices and original order details. Other alerts include order changes/modifications, yield reports, new order alerts, and low inventory alerts... 

Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and QC.

The Farmsoft coleslaw inventory control app provides business wide quality management inspection systems for fresh produce, food manufacturing, seed processing, meat packing & processing, and flower packing.


Salad manufacturing & packing for food service & convenience packs: Easy management of the salad processing, mixing, and packing environment. Pack salad convenience products, mixed fruit, mixed vegetable products.


Salad manufacturing & packing for food service & convenience packs: Easy management of the salad processing, mixing, and packing environment. Pack salad convenience products, mixed fruit, mixed vegetable products
The best salad dressings are those that enhance the overall taste while still allowing the individual salad components to shine. Today many varieties of salad dressings and sauces can be found everywhere which means we can add interesting twists and flavors to our salads and other dishes. Therefore, MF Food has presented its wide unique range of salad dressing that cater to all its customer’s desire.

Freshness is everything when it comes to salads; the crisp and refreshing taste, the vibrant colours of the different ingredients – not to mention the nutritional values - are the qualities that make a salad appealing for your customer, and all of them are quickly lost right along with the freshness of the vegetables. As such, choosing the right packaging for your salads becomes an important choice. By using the right salad containers, you can keep your salads at that perfect level of freshness for quite a length of time.

Fresh produce RFID inventory app manages fresh produce inventory for packers of fruit, vegetable, meats, and seafood. Fresh produce RFID solution from farmsoft is inexpensive to implement and uses easily available inexpensive RFID hardware for fresh produce.  Fresh produce RFID inventory app fruit & vegetable handling & control
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 introduces the reference scenario, highlighting main problems. The proposed reengineered model and its implementation in a real pilot project are reported in Section 3. Main details related to the software system architecture are summarized in Section 4. In Section 5, a description of the hardware adopted in our work is reported. A system validation is discussed in Section 6. Finally, Section 7 summarizes the conclusions and sketches future works.

RFID inventory control for fresh produce: Main Requirements and Open Issues in the Fresh Vegetables Supply Chain.

Fruit and vegetable inventory management: manage fresh produce inventory, fruit & vegetable rotation FIFO and expiry of fruit & vegetable inventory.  Fruit and vegetable inventory management and fresh Produce Stock Control
Fresh Produce Stock Control
Fruit and vegetable inventory management
FarmSoft provides extensive fresh produce stock control of incoming fresh produce & fruit/vegetables from the very moment it is delivered to the pack shed. Comprehensive Fresh Produce Stock Control is delivered via labeling, movement tracking, temperature control, quality control, documentation, and registration of incoming produce – all of which is essential in creating a strong traceability audit trail. FarmSoft provides comprehensive Fresh Produce Stock Control for fruit, vegetable, hop, grain, flower, and other fresh produce.


Business management app for salad packer processor wholesaler: manage entire salad packing process from raw salad materials to salad mixing, salad packing, and salad sales & logistics.  Mixed salad loose leaf salad lettuce packing
Use farmsoft to manage the entire mixed salad loose leaf lettuce packing operation for any loose leaf specialty products including spinach, baby kale, green coral, mignonette, butter lettuce, 4 leaf salads, baby cos, rocket, arugula, chives, basil, bunch dill, bunch kale curly, bunch kale deck, bunch mint, bunch silver-beet, bunch tarragon, bunch thyme, tuscan kale, chard, continental parsley, cochran iceberg, cochran cos, mizuna, chard, salad blends, organic salad packs, Asian mix, braising mix, frissee, organic raw, raddichio, Lollorosa, red romaine, spring mix, wild arugula.

Configure the ingredients for each loose leaf salad & lettuce recipe, project the required materials, produce orders based on requirements (or schedule new harvests or new plantings) to ensure mixed salad loose leaf lettuce packing is accurate and easy to manage.
Salad Processing – Creating Spring Mix
Salad Processing – Creating Spring Mix
Business management app for salad packer processor wholesaler
Post published:April 9, 2019
The spring mix harvesting process has been documented previously on the blog (see post HERE), and in this week’s blog, you get to see the salad processing step, showing what happens to those different types of lettuce varieties after they are harvested. The continuation of this process takes place with the same company, Babé Farms, at their processing facility (Fresh Venture Foods) in Santa Maria, California.
What Lettuce is in Spring Mix?
Although we are accustomed to the name “spring mix”, all companies use their own unique mixture to create their specific mix. For Babé Farms, they create multiple different types of lettuce mixtures. In the picture below, you can see how they dictate what types of lettuce are included into each mix.


Manage your seed, oilseed, cereal inventory traceability, orders, seed storage, seed sales, wholesale and export. Organic and conventional. Silo storage, cleaning, packing. Print Canadian Grain Council (CGC) forms and reports.  The app manages your seed, oilseed, cereal inventory traceability, orders, seed storage, seed sales, wholesale and export. Full business management solution for grain, seed, and cereal handling.

Organic and conventional. Generates paperwork for CGC and other government requirements; saves your time.
Create Purchase Orders to order seed inventory, or receive seed inventory from your own farms without needing an order
Record your customers orders of seed (optionally allow customers to order online using the shop, or B2B portal)
Receive bulk seed deliveries and store in silos, traceability is full maintained from the instant you receive the seed inventory, to post sales auditing and mock recalls.
Perform a quality check during the delivery process to determine waste % or dockage.
Generate Form 7 for CGC Canadian Grain Commission (sample here!) Ask us if you need more forms for your local region
Report rapidly on the total seed inventory stored in each silo, including off-site storage locations
Processing seed: Clean, sort, perform safety scanning (x-ray, magnetic) on seed stocks
Store cleaned seed inventory in clean silo
Bulk load trucks directly from seed silo for bulk sales
Pack cleaned seed inventory into 1MT, kg bags, and LB bags
Controlled seed sale process tells shipping teams exactly which inventory should be shipped to which customer
Shipping container management, temperature recorder numbers, seal number, and more for exporting seed stock
Generate reports that give you all the information you need for auditing and reporting such as CGC Weekly report, CGC Monthly Liability Report, CGC Receiving report, CGC Settlement report.

5 Ways to Reduce Fresh Produce Inventory Waste Right Now
5 Ways to Reduce Food Waste Right Now
“Sometimes the simplest lessons are the most groundbreaking.” That truth is over 30 years old, but its words still resonate loud and clear.
The goal of today’s post is to share a some surprising, yet logical ways to reduce inventory right now…
The key to reducing inventory is not to buy LESS; the key is to buy LATER. Teams that use this inventory reduction strategy and mindset will free up incredible amounts of capital for their organizations.
THE KEY TO INVENTORY REDUCTION IS NOT TO BUY LESS; THE KEY IS TO BUY LATER.
So as you might guess, the opposite absolutely holds true:
The key to raising service levels is typically not buying MORE; it is buying EARLIER. Perhaps we’ll save that breakdown for another day. Here we’ll explore ‘buying later’ as a strategy to reduce inventory and challenge you to see if there’s opportunity to do so in your organization.
How to reduce inventory in supply chain planning: those first few days
Let’s start with a quick word about your initial days using an advanced supply chain planning solution. Most companies experience a dramatic and welcome inventory reduction when they first move from the world of old buying reports and spreadsheets to a best-in-class inventory planning solution. The advanced forecasts offer dramatic results as expected, and the proper safety stock amounts finally being placed on each item often offer a shocking inventory reduction.
This common benefit is based on the fact that most companies carry too much safety stock on their fast-moving, or smooth ‘A’ items. Once those victories are realized, much more opportunity typically unfolds. Even a strong team with an advanced inventory planning and replenishment solution will continue to see deeper results as they increase their knowledge and be more open to coaching and growth.
When safety stock gets inflated, here’s why


Coles order management for fresh produce, fruit & vegetable sales...


IMPORT COLES FRESH PRODUCE ORDERS
Rapidly import order files from Coles, saves time, and increases accuracy. You can even import updates and deletions that will be automatically managed.
Coles order management
GUARANTEE COLES ORDERS ARE FILLED WITH ACCURACY
Sell fruit and vegetables by scanning pallets and inventory onto orders, farmsoft will manage the balance remaining on each order to ensure each dispatch is sent with the correct content, at the correct time.
REDUCE MISTAKES ON COLES ORDERS AND INVOICES
Coles invoices are captured automatically during the dispatch process (or entered by administration team) ensuring accurate Coles orders and invoicing processes.
MONITOR PICKING PROGRESS AND ORDERS READY FOR DISPATCH
ENSURE CORRECT DOCUMENTS ARE INCLUDED WITH EACH ORDER DISPATCHED
DISPATCH AND INVOICE DATA SHARED WITH ACCOUNTING PACKAGE


Fresh produce traceability app for fruit, vegetable: inventory, processing, packing, sales & distribution.  
There are currently more than one billion smartphones in use across the world – and that figure is projected to double by 2015. As the use of “smart” mobile devices continues to grow, apps have become an incredibly effective way of providing information and resources to a wide audience. farmsoft provides access to food traceability information directly from smartphones, tablets, and PC's. Essential traceability information can be accessed at any place in the fresh produce supply chain.
An increase in smartphone use happens to coincide with the growth of a consumer demand for more sustainable food – “organic,” “locally grown,” “seasonal,” and “pesticide-free” are becoming more and more common in the vernacular of food sales. In the United States alone, annual sales of organic foods and beverages grew from US$6 billion in 2000 to US$26.7 billion in 2010. And there are nearly three times as many farmers markets in the United States today as there were in 2000.

Fresh produce software for more profit & reduced waste.  Fresh produce software delivers efficiency & traceability improvements for fruit and vegetable packers, processors, & import / export.

Farmsoft fresh produce software provides end to end business management for fresh produce processors and marketers. Farmsoft fresh produce software manages all facets of the fresh produce process from incoming produce, to processing, sorting, grading, packing and even value adding. The functionality of farmsoft fresh produce software is rounded off with comprehensive quality control, sales, dispatch, and invoicing functionality.
Farmsoft fresh produce software provides comprehensive labeling, inventory management, pallet management, pallet control, audit functionality, quality control and other fresh produce tools to make every day business management easier.

Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and QC.
Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software


Use farmsoft to manage the entire coleslaw manufacturing and packing operation for any coleslaw products. Configure the ingredients for each coleslaw recipe, project the required materials, produce orders based on requirements (or schedule new harvests or new plantings) to ensure coleslaw manufacturing and packing is accurate and easy to manage.


Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software

The pack to order process for coleslaw packing has never been easier with farmsoft. Mange traceability for coleslaw packing, perform quality tests on incoming cabbage, onion, parsley and other raw materials, and track quality back to the supplier from customer complaints/feedback.

Customers can use the portal to enter their coleslaw orders online; give your customers a superior coleslaw ordering experience. You can even collect customer feedback for coleslaw products received by the customer in the mixed salad loose leaf lettuce portal.



Software solution to manage coleslaw > Reduce loose coleslaw, improve coleslaw traceability, ensure accurate & timely coleslaw orders.



Florette signs with McDonald’s France again
Florette Food Service is McDonald France’s main supplier of their new range of packed coleslaw salads since being launched in 2014, and they have just signed a contract to continue supplying them this year. Florette Food Service is always coming up with new salad recipes working alongside McDonald’s. One of the new recipe’s is the Chicken Coleslaw Salad, a mixture of batavia and lollo rossa, chopped white cabbage, grated carrots and white onion in a fromage blanc sauce with pieces of roast chicken, cheddar and cherry tomatoes. Another new salad is their Thai Chicken salad which has a mixture of vegetables such as soya beans, grilled peppers, black mushrooms and carrots.



Florette Food Service works alongside McDonald’s to promote attractive new fresh products that make people want to consume fruit and vegetables : salad meals, salad sides, ready to eat or ready prepared vegetables, a diverse variety of salads for different uses (salad fillings, decoration, mixture of flavours), herbs or ready to eat fruit (apples, pineapples, melon, pears, oranges…) Florette Food Service has a real role in the healthy snacking sector, offering clients healthy, gourmet vegetable based products.

Europe: Dole salad kits for Scandinavian Summertime
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Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software
Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software
year has seen the launch of some exciting new products from Saba, the Scandinavian branch of Dole. Included in this have been two new fresh packed salads, which mark the company's first venture into a seasonal product range.

The salads, the Dole Coleslaw Kit and Barbecue Mix, as the name may suggest, were introduced for the Scandinavian barbecue season and were launched in May for sale until around September.

The Coleslaw Kit contains a mix of grated carrot and cabbage, plus a dressing allowing the consumer to make their own mix, whilst the Barbecue Mix contains grated carrot, iceberg lettuce, rocket, white and red cabbage.

The products were marketed throughout Scandinavia and Finland as well as the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Fredrik Pettersson, Sales Manager of Dole Fresh Cuts, says that the products have done very well, in spite of the fact that the weather has not been as good as hoped.


Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software
Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software


"The salad kits have done great, although the Summer has not been that good in Sweden - or any part of Northern Europe - but they've done well. I can only imagine they would have done even better had the weather been more usual.

"Of course we don't just sell to retailers, but also to the food service sector and if you look at fast food outlets they've had a good year. It might not have been the perfect weather for a barbecue, but it has been a good year for fast food."

Of course, the performance of the products is not just down to the weather, the products have also been helped by their branding and, in the case of the salad kits, some very striking packaging.

"The Packaging really stands out, it's different, special, but at the same time it reminds us of the year round Dole product range," says Fredrik.


Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software
Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software

The more usual packaging associated with Dole Fresh Cuts lines

Such has been the success of the seasonal range that the company is already planning to extend it in the future, including potentially rolling out some Autumnal and Winter products also. Fredrik says that two examples of this could be a root vegetable kit for Autumnal sale and a typically Swedish cabbage product for the Winter - each with their own distinctive branding.

Fredrik says, "Retail in this part of the world is such that you can not just sell a product, it is important to make it very eye catching as well. We also need to consider new products all the time, as the competition is getting stronger.


Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software
Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software


"A few years ago things were easier in this category, but now it can be tough, especially in Scandinavia and Northern Germany. It is a little easier in the Baltic countries for the time being. However, we have strong brand and we are still doing very well. Besides, it's a growing market and there is room for a few more."

Such success doesn't mean that there are no challenges, however and Fredrik explains that the retail sector, in particular, has been throwing up a few obstacles in recent years.

"The supermarkets move more and more towards private labels and they are producing some very strong, very good products. However, once they introduce their own label there is tendency in this part of the world, to exclude premium brands.

This is something we are keen to challenge as we believe that the consumer should have the choice and that the market is more vibrant when it contains both private labels and premium brands."


Morrisons to cut prices of avocados, potatoes and more


Despite warnings of currency-related price increases in 2017, Morrisons has begun the New Year by cutting the cost of 800 everyday grocery products. The reductions form part of the chain’s ‘Price Crunch’ initiative which was launched last year as part its turnaround strategy. Morrisons said it was cutting prices on items such as potatoes, meat and avocados to help customers who are feeling the pinch after a costly Christmas. The average price reduction is 19% and all together 1,500 products will be now be on a ‘Price Crunch’ in Morrisons’ stores. (kamcity.com)



BigBasket FY16 revenue triples, losses mount


The country’s top online grocer BigBasket has registered an over-three-fold increase in revenue to Rs 563 crore for the financial year ended March 2016, a financial daily reported quoting Hari Menon, co-founder & CEO, BigBasket. Sales in the previous fiscal stood at Rs 170 crore. However, net loss rose to Rs 277 crore from Rs 61 crore, marking a four-fold increase, mainly due to higher spend on expansion, marketing and technology, the The Economic Times report said. (techcircle.vccircle.com)



Tesco’s spinach and Lotus celery fail tests


Two batches of vegetables sold at Lotus and Tesco outlets in Shanghai were found to contain excessive pesticide residue, the city’s food watchdog said. A batch of celery sold at the Chuanchang outlet of Lotus and supplied by Shanghai Jiangqiao Wholesale Market was found to contain 3.6 milligrams of chlorpyrifos residue per kilogram — 71 times above the national standard. (shanghaidaily.com)





Coleslaw production, packing, sales distribution food service software; manage coleslaw production process, packing, orders, traceability, and QC.