MIRIDIA FOR AGRICULTURE
A grower's margin is decided twice. Once in the field, by yield and input cost. And once again between the field and the shelf, by everything that spoils, waits, gets retyped or gets bought at the wrong moment.
WHAT GOES WRONG
In fresh produce a forecast miss costs the product itself. Order too much of a perishable and the surplus becomes shrink: the USDA Economic Research Service found that supermarkets lose 12.6% of the fresh fruit they buy. Order too little and the sale is gone, and the empty shelf records no demand, so the next forecast is lower again. A chain planned on sales history instead of demand history under-orders its best weeks every season.
Refrigeration failures rarely announce themselves. A reefer runs warm for four hours, or a pallet stands on a loading dock over a shift change, and the loss surfaces days later as a rejected delivery or a customer claim. At sector scale, UNEP and the FAO attribute 526 million tonnes of food loss a year to the lack of effective refrigeration. At company scale, a breach that nobody saw becomes a cost that nobody can assign.
Fertiliser, feed, packaging and crop protection are usually bought from a spreadsheet owned by one person, with prices typed in whenever a supplier last quoted. The World Bank recorded fertiliser prices rising nearly 80% in 2021 and a further 30% in early 2022. Against inputs that move that hard, a stale price turns each order into a guess, and nobody can say afterwards what was paid, to which supplier, and when.
A grower-packer-distributor is a multi-site business. Product moves from field bins to a packhouse, into cold storage, out to depots and on to customers, and each step keeps its own number in a different spreadsheet or system. The FAO estimates that around 14% of the food produced in the world is lost between harvest and retail. When nobody knows what the operation holds tonight, short shelf-life stock ages in the wrong place until it becomes part of that loss.
From Fourteen Percent Never Arrives, with the source of each figure in the report.
HOW IT RUNS
Each intake, from your own fields or from a supplier, is recorded on a goods received note with ordered, received and damaged quantities, and posts to the inventory movement ledger at that location.
The cold store is a location with its own on-hand, reserved and in-transit quantities. Transfer orders move stock between sites in two phases, so a truck on the road never drops out of the stock record.
Cold-chain visibility workflows capture carrier telematics feeds where the carrier provides them and raise an exception alert when a temperature breach occurs. The workflow engine escalates the alert to email, Slack or another connected channel.
The sales order becomes a shipment record that carries the HS codes from the product record. Stock leaves the ledger when the shipment departs, and Cargopilot, the logistics product of Miridia, handles the carrier quotations, the waybill and label, and the customs declaration data for your clearing agent.
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The figures on this page come from our Agriculture report: 18 pages, 8 figures and 11 cited sources. It includes a 90-day plan, and it names the conditions in which a different product is the better choice.
Agriculture industry report
What post-harvest loss, cold-chain gaps and spreadsheet buying cost growers, packers and agri-distributors, and what to do about it.
QUESTIONS
Yes. The cold-chain visibility workflows capture carrier telematics feeds where the carrier provides them and trigger an exception alert when a temperature breach occurs. The workflow engine escalates the breach to email, Slack or another connected channel. Cold-chain cost data sits on the transfer or shipment record, and the records support FSSC 22000 and HACCP audit trail requirements. The cold-chain workflows are an advanced module with a separate price.
Miridia Planner backtests a pool of models for each SKU against its own history, including AutoARIMA, AutoETS, Holt-Winters, Theta, Croston for intermittent demand, XGBoost and LightGBM. A champion model must beat naive and seasonal-naive benchmarks before it is trusted. Demand cleansing proposes stockout imputation and outlier capping, and a planner approves each proposal. The forecast then recalculates reorder points and safety stock for each product and location.
No. Miridia starts where the crop becomes stock: intake, storage, packing, buying, transfers between sites, sales orders and demand planning. Field mapping, spray records, scouting and yield monitoring belong in farm management software. Miridia runs downstream of it, and the REST API, webhooks and the workflow engine can carry data between the two systems. Where a connector is reusable for other customers, we build it at no additional cost.
Each physical site is a location in Miridia with its own on-hand, reserved and in-transit quantities. Transfer orders move stock between sites with a request, approval, dispatch and receipt lifecycle, so stock in transit stays visible. Every change writes to an append-only movement ledger with a running balance and a link to its source document. Work orders can post pack-out into stock with cost-of-goods valuation. Lots carry a lot number, an expiry date and their own movement history, so a short shelf-life batch can be found at any site.
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