Planning green coffee buying is one of the hardest parts of running a roastery, and one of the most important. There's no single right way to do it. In this webinar, we introduce the Harvest Buying Calendar, free inside Cropster, which builds your buying plan from your own data and gives you more control over your sourcing. You'll leave with practical tips for planning and sourcing, and a live look at how that plan turns into action.
Where buying season planning happens today
- Last year's usage sits in Cropster, and this year's buying plan sits in a spreadsheet
- If you buy spot: a reorder starts when stock hits its minimum, and by then that origin's harvest is often already over
- A harvest calendar from the internet knows the origins, not your volumes, whichever way you buy
- If you buy forward: you already plan ahead, you just find out what's available and what it costs when your trader's offer list arrives
- An origin gets swapped at the last minute, or a price gets accepted with little room to negotiate, because the plan wasn't secured on your own terms
Plan, source, secure
Three new ways to plan your buying season in Cropster. The key is in the webinar.
Know what you need before the buying window opens.
Find who has it, while there's still time to choose.
Lock it in, with every contract in one place.
What we cover
Planning your 2027 buying
Best-practice tips on seasonality, shipping windows, and the quality and quantity trade-offs roasters weigh every season.
From your data to a 12-month plan
Your Cropster data turned into a clear buying plan, shown live in the Harvest Buying Calendar.
Open Q&A
Bring your planning and sourcing questions to our speakers.
Takeaways
- Practical tips for planning, sourcing and direct trade
- A worked example of turning your plan into an actual purchase
- A way to buy less coffee at last-minute spot prices
Who should join
Green coffee buyers, head roasters and roastery owners who plan purchases across several origins. Built for roasteries in Europe and North America. You don't need a Cropster account to join.
Speakers
