GROWER ACCOUNTING

FAMOUS Grower Accounting is the complete process of handling and selling product for outside growers. Grower Accounting results in a "settlement" to growers for the proceeds from the sale of their product less applicable costs and fees.
While shippers do not take title to outside grower’s product, they take possession and often grade, size, pack and perform other processes on the product. Commonly shippers report to growers the results of such processing as a packout. Shippers typically sell outside grower’s product in their own name with an agreement to remit proceeds, less charges, to growers at a particular time. This requires accurate product identification from receiving through sale.

Integrated
Grower accounting must be tightly integrated into aspects of a packer-shipper’s computerized business system such as: receiving, production, inventory, sales, invoicing and payables.

Separated
Grower product must be separated from product purchased for resale and internal use.

Combined
While separate, grower product and product purchased for resale must share the same system and be combined for purposes of inventory availability and shipment.

Without Inventory
FAMOUS offers the ability to sell grower product without inventory. Some agents only perform a sales and remittance function where growers themselves, or a third party, prepare product for sale and store product until shipment.

Grower Blocks
A grower block identifies a grower, commodity and, optionally, variety. Each grower may have multiple blocks including blocks of the same commodity/variety.

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