What It Does:
For Nurseries…
- Allow customers to view seedling inventories online.
- Allow customers to plan and edit delivery schedules of cold storage or hot lift seedlings.
- Schedule tree shipments from the nursery or storage facility.
- Use the online delivery schedule to plan preparations for shipping.
- Confirm/record numbers for each shipment.
- Always know what remains to be shipped for each customer.
- Post surplus seedlings for sale online for maximum exposure.
- Trade surplus seedlings online with other users tracking all the trade details.
- Create basic PlantWizard.com accounts for all customers.
- Monitor shipments requests offline using PlantWizard.com coordinator tool.
For Foresters...
- Manage seedling inventories online with planting contractors and nurseries.
- Plan detailed delivery schedules of cold storage or hot lift seedlings.
- Confirm delivery schedules with nurseries online.
- Post and review seedling audit information.
- Track numbers for each shipment and remaining inventories.
- Divide seedlings up between planting contractors so they can develop their own delivery schedules without risk of ordering the wrong trees.
- Post surplus seedlings for sale online for maximum exposure.
- Trade surplus seedlings online with other users tracking all the trade details including costs.
For Tree Planting Contractors...
- Schedule tree shipments from the nursery or storage facility.
- Edit the shipment schedule anytime.
- Confirm/record received numbers for each shipment.
- Plan shipments from an online listing of exactly which seedlings are remaining at the nursery.
- Always know what is left remaining to be shipped.
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Why You Should Use It:
Nurseries…
- Less office admin needed to keep information current with your clients.
- Better planning tools leads to optimum crew sizing to prepare deliveries.
- No awkward time spent with clients trying to reconcile shipping numbers and explain discrepancies.
- More efficient and accurate transfer of seedling audit information from the field to your client.
- Get numbers to your clients faster.
- Less office time printing and faxing reports to your clients or confirming information by phone.
Foresters…
- Less office admin to put together and manage seedling inventories and shipment scheduling.
- Less paperwork with electronic data transfer between your nurseries and planting contractors.
- Get more value from your planting contractors as they can:
- Plan their own seedling delivery schedules
- View which trees remain at the nursery online.
- Order trees from a listing of seedling items remaining at the nursery.
- View nursery acknowledgement of a planned shipment online.
Tree Planting Contractors…
- No awkward time spent with clients trying to reconcile numbers and explain discrepancies.
- Less office admin needed to organize planting projects and coordinate seedling supply.
- Plan your seedling delivery schedules online.
- View which trees remain at the nursery online.
- Order trees from a listing of seedling items remaining at the nursery.
- View nursery acknowledgement of a planned shipment online.
Reduce Operating Costs…
- Less time spent reconciling shipped and number of trees remaining at a nursery.
- Send and receive shipment numbers from your clients electronically - eliminating data entry.
- Spend less time understanding invoices with information available at your fingertips.
- Port data in and out of your existing information systems to further reduce data entry.
- Post your seedlings for sale online for other PlantWizard.com users to view.
- Search seedlings posted for sale on line, initiate and track a trade online.
Increase Revenue…
- Win more contracts with better service and lower prices.
- Add value to your planting proposals with reduced need for client supervision.
- Add value to your seedlings with better information available to your clients.
- Manage more seedlings in less time.
Produce a Better Product…
- Better handle on client data reporting leading to better working relationship with your clients.
- Fewer data entry errors.
- Fewer mistakes made in the field with accurate information available all the time.
- No delay delivering data to clients (Seedling inventory numbers and planned shipments available 24/7 online).
- Give seedling numbers to your client in an electronic format that can be easily ported to their internal database system (adding value to your deliverables).
- Less time for planting contractors to worry about whether a nursery receives a shipment request and whether those trees are available from the nursery. This means more time for crew bosses to organize and keep trees flowing to the crew. This leads to a happier and more productive workforce leading to less personnel issues for management.
- All your seedling information is available in one system whether in the office or in the field.
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Why Buy this Solution from JRP?
- JRP has been building and supporting planting related software for over 7 years.
- The price of our software is only a fraction of the cost to develop a custom solution.
- The software is supported by foresters who know the business.
- The software is compatible with many forest management information systems.
- We listen to our users in order to shape our products to their needs.
- Our software is constantly improving to meet the changing needs of our users.
- Professional Support: Toll Free 1-800-535-2093 ext. 300, or Online at www.plantwizard.com