Order Compilation: Navigating Various Order Platforms
Managing every order for a roast day is no small feat. The process of calculating how much to roast while subtracting existing inventory is a tedious ordeal that takes up time and energy in roasting teams. Roasters find themselves buried in spreadsheets, emails, and phone calls, making sure their team roasts enough to fulfill all orders and avoid every possible mistake.
This task can also become monotonous – inputting data, punching in the right digits, and constantly double-checking to avoid over- or under-roasting. It’s a balancing act that, if interrupted, could lead to serious repercussions in the entire production process.
Roasting Day: Overcoming the Overwhelming
During peak seasons, roast days can easily become overwhelming. Roasters deal with the pressure to meet the demand while ensuring quality standards, achieving consistency, and managing their packaging plans to perfection. The fear of miscalculating looms large, and they can find themselves drowning in the details, desperately trying to keep everything in check.
The pain is evident – the stress of dealing with the complexities of a chaotic roast day, where every decision counts. The fear of overlooking orders, miscalculating roast needs, or going over or under in packaging plans adds an extra layer of pressure on managers and their teams.
Oopsies and Overheads: The Hidden Costs
Whether things are managed manually or with a 5-year-old spreadsheet desperately needing an update, the door is open for mistakes. Updating roast plans with a typo or overlooking a detail can lead to costly errors in a business. The fear of mistakes becomes a constant companion, threatening the coffee quality and the overall efficiency of the roastery.
It’s not just a financial cost, it is time wasted and can also affect the brand and the reputation that has taken so long to build with customers. A simple error can cascade into a series of challenges that impact the entire supply chain.
Production Teams Deserve Better!
The pains of compiling orders, calculating roasted coffee needs, and successfully getting by the roast days are real challenges for many roasters out there. We see and feel the struggle, and know that at some point they’ll want to put an end to the pain and explore all potential solutions. That is why we've developed Cropster Commerce.
With Commerce, you can automatically import orders from Shopify, WooCommerce, or Beans, as well as plan roast days with just a few clicks. Commerce tracks your inventories from green beans to roasted bags, making all those silly mistakes a thing of the past.
Stay tuned for our next blog posts, where we continue to chat about the intricacies of roastery management, and how innovative software solutions like Commerce can transform these pains into opportunities for a more streamlined, organized, and optimized operation.
