Among the many benefits of Power BI for business is the potential for growth. When you go from manual reporting processes to Power BI, you can grow in volume without adding to your workload. It’s easy to scale your business because your dashboard inherently sees the changes. When you add a new product line, location,…
When working with greenhouse growers, I often find that they are making their jobs much harder than necessary by operating in siloed environments. I’ve said this before, but do you find yourself pulling off “daily acts of heroism” to gather the information needed to make business decisions? It doesn’t have to be so hard. More…
For greenhouse growers, your sales order processes have a big impact on your customers. The faster you process orders, the sooner they receive your products. And by managing open orders efficiently, you can make sure they arrive on time. You also free up time for your sales team to provide better service to your customers.…
To make effective business decisions, greenhouse managers and frontline staff need access to accurate data in real time. Otherwise, the resulting actions from those decisions will be off-target, or the information will arrive too late for the actions to have the desired impact. Many growers have solved these data-access challenges by turning to SilverLeaf running…
Do you ever feel like you’re slowly disappearing under a mountain of spreadsheets? Perhaps not literally, since you’re probably already using cloud-based applications to build your spreadsheets, but perhaps metaphorically you feel like you’ll never get out from under that enormous pile of virtual data? Data: Collecting, Organizing, Formatting, Analyzing Collecting information is one thing,…
Power BI is a system that brings together all of your organization’s data so that it’s available for you to use in making business decisions. Connect various sources of information—like spreadsheets, software applications, or services—and create dashboards, reports, charts, graphs, and other simple-to-understand and interactive visuals representing your business. Pulling it all Together You probably have…
Microsoft Power BI is a solution that provides unparalleled business intelligence (BI). What does that mean in practical terms for cannabis processors? It means that your data becomes useful. Collecting data takes effort. But once you have it—perhaps in various spreadsheets, documents, or even several different systems and platforms—how can you actually make it work…
You’re in charge of greenhouse production, and the sales manager just provided you with a month-by-month forecast of expected sales for the next selling season. You now know how many of each flower and plant type—by variety and by color—you need to produce. How will you next create a production plan, and then make sure…
For cannabis operators just starting out, standard seed-to-sale software solutions play a vital role in managing the business. They enable the tracking of plants all the way from when seeds are first planted to when the resulting retail products are sold. Operators can monitor the progress of every flower as it blooms and gets harvested.…
With the spring and early summer selling season wrapping up, now’s the time for greenhouse growers to plan production for the next season. By identifying trends and analyzing your KPIs, you can understand how your business performed this season and make profitable decisions on how to operate next season. One of the keys is to…
