Key Features

A traceability backbone to all activity

This offers a full record of what was used to make what through many iterative change of identity processes whether receiving, quality assessing, manufacturing or picking and despatch – and without hindering the need to mix traceability references when working.

Powerful rules generator

A powerful rules generator engine automates the application of data by rules – from the generation of activity based expected costs (for daily accurate profitability analysis based on what actually happened) to setting product characteristics for usage rules – all designed to minimise the need for operators to enter data and control user behaviour and of any automated data update services.

Activity based costings

Fresh Produce needs immediate profitability information – to spot and stop where losses are happening. This means as any activity happens, the software has to be able to work out and attach (and sometimes be told) how much that activity has added to the costs. The Prophet rules engine delivers this – activity based costing – as opposed to a standard costing – and it is vital.

The sophistication of Fresh Produce deal types

Prophet has evolved to provide a designed solution for paying suppliers / growers based on the actual commercial contracts – which includes acting as a consignment agent, agreeing the price once its graded, processed or sold, including the deduction of any costs incurred handling a suppliers product, agreeing minimum price guarantees, agreeing profit shares or providing accurate PO / Lot based account of sales and costs for service provision (open book even) trading models. Often Prophet user companies have to account to customers or growers showing accurate traceabilty  – and accurate accountability of sales values and costs. Prophet can do this without hindering the need to operate a unified supply chain operation. 

Interact with Supply Chain Partners

Manage supply chain interaction using EDI data exchange for Orders, confirmation of shipments (ASN’s), transportation instructions and confirmations, final invoicing. Offer supply chain partners access through web page applications to see and interact with live data.

Multi user and Tightly Integrated File Structure

The pace of fresh produce demands a great many users and data activities can all act on the database together at the same time – without locking and waiting. In order for Prophet to deliver the tight control it can operate all application features for large multi user enterprises over one integrated multi user database – where even a multi legal entity enterprise really acts as one unified operation.

Purchase order line item profitability

Including all direct costs and including all manufacturing processes and their labour and packaging use.

Sales order line item profitability

Including the attribution of the costs to that sale (transportation for example) so that true delivered sales order profitability is achieved.