ERP has to deal with what is different and unique about managing fresh produce – the need for granular, pallet by pallet, consignment by consignment, inventory control for all aspects of data processing and reporting.
Achieving the required level of data exchange is a key foundation for taking advantage of other artificial intelligence and automation opportunities.
Prophet is one fresh produce focused ERP that has the technology, software design, and the right business model, to provide a successful ERP strategy. Prophet’s extensive user base and long experience throughout the fresh produce supply chain make it an industry leading ERP. It has a robust foundation for – and already provides – a platform for automation and smart software that can provide real competitive advantage to fresh produce companies.
Prophet enables businesses to remain competitive to survive and prosper in the face of future disruption, and is also the right partner in the journey towards automation.
Inventory management centred on the specifics down to pallet/bin level – in all aspects of reporting availability through to Material Requirements Planning (MRP).
The ability to apportion expected and actual financial postings to the lowest level of activity in order to provide accurate profitability reporting at these levels – sales orders, purchase orders, works orders. This has been the culmination of years of work and learning many lessons from trial and error, as well as intelligent design.
Planning as a seamless on-demand extension of the live inventory management – just as quick and just as granular – because the current calculation of availability affects the important future time periods. In Prophet, material and capacity requirements planning is a unique near live inventory and capacity calculation engine – the culmination of years of work.
A file structure able to deliver reliable accurate customer sales order profitability by deriving an accurate cost of service as soon as the goods leave the business. Prophet can operate all application features for large multi-user enterprises over one integrated multi-user database – where a multi-legal entity enterprise acts as one unified operation.
Configurable rules for all aspects of how data is automatically associated with orders, and inventory to be able to manage the variety of possibilities and apply them.
With configurable rules that generate accurate expected costs to match with payables or capture overheads accurately, and apply the correct contract to sales values for goods and services.
The software can be used by everyone, everywhere, for all tasks. Configurable workflow processes that work in all circumstances ensure the right steps get fulfilled without management oversight. Together, these allow for the foundation for deep implementations – where the software is used by everyone in all their work all of the time.
A comprehensive services-based message interface for electronic data interchange of all stages of all transactions. Prophet also provides equipment integration so that real-time data extends to the wider supply chain collaborators and to equipment and other software outside of the Prophet software.
Regular and incremental system development is provided by way of an annual subscription license. This annual subscription license allows fresh produce companies to avoid major upfront license fees making initial ownership affordable – and allowing the shared development of a standard configurable system to deliver highly cost-effective ownership over many years. Prophet provides an annual subscription license business model, with no charges for add-ons or software modifications. There are also no large upfront license fees for new customers or extra support fees for software modifications.
Prophet works with its customers to share insights and ensure a strong collective understanding of the fresh produce industry and to continually evolve our approach and software in line with that insight. The Prophet customer-base affords breadth and depth within the fresh produce supply chain. Prophet gains experience from all interactions – including retailers, retail distributors, growers, packers and graders and conditioning stations, manufacturers, port handlers, food service distributors, terminal market wholesalers.
Prophet provides software that is adaptable – and adapted constantly – both by Prophet and by its users. Prophet makes use of open message integration to allow integration with emergent data exchange and technologies, and integrates open data for easy access, and use in the latest data analysis and BI tools.
Regular and incremental system development is underpinned by an annual subscription license. All development work for all companies is carried out to ensure that a standard set of software solutions are available and used by all companies who take the upgraded software on a regular basis to use and gain form the change – and feedback into the virtuous circle to affect future change.
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