Inventory management and traceability for agri-food
Fernable tracks every lot by stage, source and expiry, so the numbers on screen match the stock on hand.
Stock counts kept in spreadsheets drift the moment the floor gets busy, and the stock behind them quietly ages. Fernable keeps live, lot-level inventory, stock by stage, FEFO by expiry, and units counted alongside kilograms, so the figure on screen is the figure in the room.
One lot record. Three modules that share it.
Packhouse, inventory and export operations all run on the same lot-level record, so nothing gets re-keyed moving between them. Start with one module and add the others when you need them.
Packhouses still run on paper
Spreadsheets, notebooks and re-typed labels work, until the day they don't.
Spreadsheets and paper
Receivals in a notebook, pack runs in Excel, labels re-typed by hand. Every re-key is an error waiting to happen.
Recalls take days
When a customer calls, tracing one lot back to its source means digging through binders, days you don't have.
Patchy connectivity
Processing floors, cold rooms and remote sites rarely have reliable signal. Software that needs perfect Wi-Fi doesn't survive there.
Six flows, one traceability record
Every step updates the same lot-level record, nothing re-keyed, nothing lost.
Receive
Log incoming stock by supplier, source and lot the moment it reaches the dock.
Pack
Run pack or process runs against received lots, with yield tracked live.
Pallet
Build labelled pallets from packed lots, ready to load.
Dispatch
Assign pallets to a customer order and dispatch with the full trace attached.
Trace
Follow any lot forward or backward, source to customer in seconds.
QC
Record pass/fail quality checks against lots at any point in the flow.
One-tap recall
Pick any lot and see every source it came from and every customer it went to, in seconds, not days.
- Lot to source to customer in seconds
- Auditor-ready PDF trace report in one tap
- Trace backward to the source or forward to every buyer
Modular, so you start where it hurts
Inventory and traceability for produce, seafood and meat on one lot record. Exporters can add the export operations module, compliance checks, export documents and container tracking.
Works on the floor, wherever the floor is
Any phone
No scanners or terminals, runs in the browser on the phones your team already carries.
Offline-friendly
Keep receiving and packing when the signal drops; everything syncs once you're back online.
Multilingual
Your team works in the language they read, and anyone can switch at any time.
Stock control that speaks to the floor
- Available stock means genuinely available, 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 source, grade, age, and stage, so counts stay honest even when the same product arrives from ten suppliers.
Oldest stock moves first, by expiry
Stock is ordered FEFO by expiry date, so pallet and dispatch pickers put the oldest stock in front of you first. You clear ageing lots before they become a write-off.
Count units and weight, both
Capture a physical count of cartons, crates, or bins 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 the packing site, cold room, ambient, and third-party locations, and log every move between them. Each transfer is written to an append-only trail.
Promise only what you can ship
Partial reservations hold stock against an order and feed a computed available-to-promise, so available stock is what is really available. Pair it with cost capture and on-hand valuation to see what the cold room is worth at any moment.
Book stock in at receival
Record what arrived from each source and Fernable creates a lot under the product, capturing the carton or bin count and the weight together.
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 floor.
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 stock 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 food has no fixed unit-to-weight conversion. You count the physical cartons, crates, or bins and Fernable holds the weight alongside them, so neither number drifts from the other.
How does available-to-promise know what is really available?
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 available figure so you never promise stock you cannot ship.
Can I do a stocktake without stopping the floor?
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.