Industry: Horticulture

Microsoft 365 Solutions for Data-Driven Decision-Making Power BI

Learn More About Microsoft 365 Solutions and Data-Driven Decision-Making for Greenhouse Growers

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…
Production Planning and Production Execution for greenhouse growers

Learn More About Microsoft 365 Solutions for Production Planning and Execution

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…
Tips to Help Greenhouse Growers Improve Production Planning

Learn More About Tips to Help Greenhouse Growers Improve Production Planning

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…
Streamlining Costing and Inventory Management: How Freedom Tree Farms Achieved Success with Velosio and Microsoft Technology

Learn More About Streamlining Costs and Inventory Management: How Freedom Tree Farms Achieved Success with Velosio and Microsoft Technology

Client Overview Founded in 1984 in Pelham TN, Freedom Tree Farms, provides America’s largest retail corporations, fruit growers, top garden centers, wholesale nurseries, and more with numerous varieties of the highest quality bareroot and container-grown fruit trees and berry plants. The exception in the industry, Freedom Tree Farms grows buds, and grafts its trees on…
Technology Trends Driving the Agribusiness Industry

Learn More About 3 Technology Trends Driving the Agribusiness Industry

As plant and flower growers look for ways to survive and thrive in their marketplaces, it’s critical to consider the ways technology can be leveraged—to operate more efficiently and to gain access to information that accelerates decision-making. In this blog, we examine three technology trends currently driving the agribusiness industry and how growers can take…
Greenhouse Business Management Solution

Learn More About Dispelling the 4 Myths Keeping Greenhouses from Adopting a Business Management Solution

Many small greenhouse growers dismiss the idea of implementing an end-to-end business management solution, also known as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools. They may think that modern technologies running in the cloud are meant only for large businesses. But by taking a forward-looking perspective and investing in technology that allows your business to gain greater…
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Learn More About Real Businesses Share Their ERP Success Stories

Too often, the ERP conversation focuses too much on high failure rates and lofty, but vague promises re: AI and automation, or the hidden power locked inside existing data sets. These tried-and-true bullet points strike the perfect balance between fear and possibility – aka they’re great for selling massively expensive enterprise software.  The problem is,…
Green cucumber plants growing in glasshouse

Learn More About Greenhouse Growers Feeling Pressure to Adopt Modern Technology

The greenhouse grower market continues to expand rapidly while supply chain costs continue to rise. But there is continued pressure to adopt modern grower technology. Given these trends, growers have to become more efficient in their operations. Manual processes supported by spreadsheets and entry-level accounting systems can work to a certain extent. But as the…