Monterey Mushrooms is one of the largest mushroom producers in the United States. It is an end-to-end production company, handling the growing, processing, packing, and shipping of its product from nine farms located across the United States and Mexico. What started as an $8 million a year company has grown to almost $500 million, producing more than 200 million pounds of mushrooms every year.
The nature of working with fresh produce meant shipping had to be done on time so product could get to customers while fresh. Monterey Mushrooms processed hundreds of orders every day. To support this large order volume, they needed a robust inventory management system that could perform at the velocity needed to meet customer demand.
Between problems with data integrity, significant lags in printing, and poor system reliability, Monterey Mushrooms struggled to move high volumes of product efficiently. The company needed a new solution to optimize business processes.
Monterey Mushrooms implemented Cloud Inventory to better manage its inventory and increase the speed of mushroom production and delivery.
“We wanted a more sustainable, more stable, more user-friendly product,” said Thomas Nellissery. “That’s why we moved to Cloud Inventory.”
Cloud Inventory seamlessly replaced Monterey Mushrooms’ previous system, empowering it to quickly boost productivity.
Monterey Mushrooms now has an inventory management system that requires little training. Previously, employees had to manually enter sales orders for each item; with the new scanning solution, employees can scan sales orders, which automatically get entered into the system. Employees can also catch errors more easily and have more confidence in using the applications, which has made shipping and receiving operations run more smoothly.
Monterey Mushrooms is barely scratching the surface of what it can do with Cloud Inventory. It will soon extend the solution to the harvesting side of the business and automate cumbersome processes, eventually achieving a fully mobile digital supply chain.
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