Last week we visited our customer birdbros in the UK as part of a trip together with our friends from Experience Data and Experience Fruit Quality. They use their deep knowledge and experience of transforming data into information and better business decisions, to help improving the process of riping, grading, packing and shipping avocados and other stone fruits.
We looked at the similarities and differences in grading and packing eggs compared with grading and packing avocados and had great discussions about that with operations and management of our respective customers. Which pallets of ungraded eggs should we run now to fulfill our orders of today in the most effective way? Which pallets of avocados should we run now to make sure we deliver our orders in time whilst making sure the consumer is getting the avocados when they are ready to eat? These – and many other - challenges have a lot in common and we all gained insights which will lead to better solutions and innovation, sooner or later.
Another aspect in which our customers are equal is the passion and absolute will to deliver the best product and the desire to constantly keep improving the process. Very motivating for both EFQ and Ovotrack. We are grateful to Marco de Jong from EFQ and to the people at Bird Bros, Mission Produce, Charlston and Mehadrin for their cooperation.
Thanks for your openness, transparency and attention!
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BSc Hons Agri Food & Business Management at the Royal Agricultural University
5moSean Harley