Category: Silverleaf for Greenhouse

For greenhouse growers, the window of opportunity is highly variable. The weather, pests, soil conditions, water availability, supply chain partners, customer demand, and workforce resources all impact how much you can grow and how much you can sell. That window is also short, particularly in northern climates. Everyone wants to buy flowers, plants, shrubs, and…

Greenhouse owners face unique operational challenges. To start, they manage living inventory with a limited shelf life. This requires precise timing as to when to start growing flowers, shrubs, and trees—and when to move them out of production to become available. Getting this right allows deliveries to reach customers at the right time so they…

If your greenhouse business misses out on revenue opportunities or experiences workflow delays, the cause could be poor analytics. Common signs that analytics do not provide the required insights include challenges in planning resources and inconsistent information as data flows from one team to another in the production lifecycle. The cause is usually isolated data…

“You can’t improve what you don’t measure,”  Peter Drucker – world-renowned management consultant and author of The Practice of Management Drucker’s wisdom certainly rings true for greenhouse growers. The fast pace of the growing and selling seasons—along with data isolated in different applications and inside someone’s brain—sometimes makes it impossible to access KPIs (key performance…