Paper chaos in the store, and what it really costs
Where paper and shouting really cost time and nerves, and how you notice.
Hardly any farm ever adds up what the paperwork costs. It rarely costs in one big place, but in many small ones, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed.
Time spent searching
When nobody is quite sure where a batch is, people go looking. Two people, twenty minutes, several times a week. Across a season that adds up to several working days.
The double trip
Without a shared state somebody drives twice: once because the information was missing, and once to fetch it. Each of those trips is individually too small to be annoyed about.
Proving it after the fact
It gets most expensive when a buyer or an auditor wants an answer nobody can give with confidence. Then it gets reconstructed: from delivery notes, memory and scribbles.
Signs that it is time
- Questions like "where is that lot again?" are part of the daily routine
- At the end of the season stock differs noticeably from expectation
- Every audit is preceded by a scramble
Keep your potato store under control.
Potabo is storage management for potato farms. You can see at any time which lot sits where, how much is left and where it came from. Built with farmers, for everyday work in the store.
