Johnny Milmine, General Manager
ABCgrower allows me to have my finger on the pulse and see exactly what’s going on.
Garry Zovogiannis, Farm Manager
Having ABC with me is great because I can be out here on the farm, hands-on, and if I need anything I can just click on the app.
Lisa Rose, HR/Compliance & Administration
ABC is good in the sense that you can’t miss things, it’s pretty difficult to get wrong.
Johnny: We grow an assortment of soft fruit berries; strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. We’ve got 17 canopy hectares all under Haygrove tunnels.
In my role as GM, ABC allows me to pull up any report I want to, all the data’s in there right down to individual hours and individual pickers. The decisions that we can make from this data tells us whether we’ve got enough pickers, it tells us whether our productivity is right, which then allows us to forecast to our sales team, basically maximising our returns off the box.
Lisa: We have hundreds of workers throughout the season so ABC makes it really easy for us to enter them all individually and then also to organise them into teams so it means that we can make sure that the hours are entered together or individually if we need to.
Johnny: Using ABCgrower for us has benefited the business in the sense we can see where our costs are now. The types of businesses that would benefit from using ABC would be any horticultural business whether that’s strawberry growers, or berry growers like us, basically anyone that’s employing people that needs track costs.
Garry: We’re scanning up to a thousand trays a day to four different teams, and it’s all scanned into a system where it’s easy to be reallocated to a group of people. If you’ve got your scanning right, then there’s no room for error. ABC gives me great confidence; we use it every day and it’s pretty straightforward. It’s pretty easy to learn; I’m not that computer savvy myself and I picked it up in no time.
Johnny: I find ABC really easy to work with, always on the end of the phone or end of an email which saves us time and therefore adds efficiencies for our business.
