Know what's on hand, whose it is, and what moves first
Fernable tracks every lot by stage, grower and expiry, so the numbers on screen match the fruit in the cold room.
Stock counts kept in spreadsheets drift the moment the floor gets busy, and the fruit behind them quietly ages. Fernable keeps live, lot-level inventory, stock by stage, FEFO by expiry, and trays counted alongside kilograms, so the figure on screen is the figure in the shed.
Produce inventory management
Stock control that speaks packhouse
- Free stock means genuinely free, not double-counted
- QC-held lots never show as available to promise
- Reserve part of a lot, leave the rest sellable
One product record, many lots
Set up each product once as the item master, then every receival creates a lot underneath it. Each lot carries its own grower, grade, age, and stage, so counts stay honest even when the same product comes from ten blocks.
Oldest fruit moves first, by expiry
Stock is ordered FEFO by expiry date, so pallet and dispatch pickers put the oldest fruit in front of you first. You clear ageing lots before they turn instead of finding them at the back of the cold room.
Count units and weight, both
Capture a physical count of trays, bins, or cartons alongside weight on the same lot, because there is no fixed conversion between them. You see 42 cartons and 380 kg together, not one guessed from the other.
Locations with audited transfers
Split stock across packhouse, cold room, ambient, and third-party sites, and log every move between them. Each transfer is written to an append-only trail, so you can always see where a lot went and when.
Promise only what you can ship
Partial reservations hold stock against an order and feed a computed available-to-promise, so free stock is what is really free. Pair it with cost capture and on-hand valuation to see what the cold room is worth at any moment.
Book fruit in at receival
Record what arrived from each grower block and Fernable creates a lot under the product, capturing the tray or bin count and the weight together. The lot starts life with its grower, grade, and expiry attached.
Move and count as you go
As lots get packed, put on pallets, or shifted between the cold room and other sites, log the transfer. Fernable tracks stock by stage and writes every move to an append-only trail, and cycle counts let you true up a location without stopping the shed.
Reserve, value, and ship
Hold the right lots against an order and Fernable shows a live available-to-promise so you never oversell. FEFO puts the oldest fruit first at dispatch, and on-hand valuation tells you what the cold room is worth at any moment.
Does it handle both cartons and weight, or do I have to pick one?
Both, on every lot, because produce has no fixed unit-to-weight conversion. You count the physical trays, bins, or cartons and record the weight, and Fernable keeps and reports both figures.
How does available-to-promise know what is really free?
It takes on-hand stock and subtracts what is already reserved against open orders, including partial reservations. Held lots, such as those on a QC hold, are kept out of the free figure so you never promise fruit you cannot ship.
Can I do a stocktake without stopping the shed?
Yes, cycle counts let you count a location or product at a time and post the adjustment against the lots. Every count and correction is written to the append-only trail, so the history of what changed stays with the record.