From farm gate to shelf, lose less on the way.
Buying from thousands of farmers, stock with a shelf life and thin margins leave little room for leaks. We check every purchase, batch and scheme in your data, and free the cash tied up in stock.
01Where money leaks in agriculture and food
Farm procurement
Weights, grades and prices at collection centres that don’t match the lab or the market.
Yield and waste
Losses above the process norm, and waste that is really unrecorded sales.
Stock and shelf life
Cash tied up in slow stock, and batches that expire before they ship.
Trade schemes
Distributor claims and discounts paid outside the scheme rules.
Twelve use cases across procurement, plants, stock and sales
- Weight and grade checksWeighbridge, lab results, payments
- Price against the marketMarket prices, purchases
- Payments to farmers and agentsFarmer master, bank accounts
- Yield against the process normProduction, inputs, outputs
- Waste and by-product salesScrap and by-product sales
- Cold-chain and energy useTemperature logs, meters
- Slow-moving and near-expiry stockBatch data, stock ageing
- Demand and production planningOrders, forecasts, capacity
- Freight per tonneTrips, loads, invoices
- Distributor claim checksSchemes, claims, sales
- Price and discount leakagePrice lists, invoices
- Returns and damage claimsReturns, proof of delivery
Each use case names the data it needs. Weighbridge, lab and collection-centre data usually sit outside the ERP.
One case: cash tied up in stock
Food processing: every batch is in stock. Not every batch will sell.
- Situation
- A food processor with seasonal buying; stock levels set by plant managers from last year’s sales.
- What a sample misses
- Each stock line looks justified for its season. The cash is in lines bought too early, or in batches close to expiry.
- Data and technique
- Stock ageing, shelf life and orders by product and depot; demand forecast by season, with reorder points set from it.
- Typical findings
- Packaging bought six months ahead; near-expiry batches in the wrong depot; raw material bought above the forecast need.
- Control fix
- Reorder points set from the forecast; a weekly list of near-expiry stock sent to sales, depot by depot.
In food, slow stock is not just cash. It is waste with a date on it.
Illustrative composite case, read-only access.
Procurement, plants and stock: 12 tests to run first
| Procurement and plants | Stock and sales |
|---|---|
| Weights at the centre above the plant weighbridge | Batches within 30 days of expiry, by depot |
| Grades paid above the lab result | Stock bought above the forecast need |
| Prices above the market on the day | Distributor claims above the scheme |
| Many farmers paid into one bank account | Discounts outside the approved price list |
| Yield below the process norm, by shift | Returns without proof of delivery |
| By-products sold below the market rate | Freight per tonne above the route norm |
Thresholds are set for each plant and season, and tuned on the results.
05Earn $ and Save $ in agriculture and food
A food processor released USD 1.6 Mn of cash tied up in stock in two quarters, and cut near-expiry write-offs by a third.
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