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CALL TODAY TO LEARN HOW WE CAN HELP. Only Ozone can super-saturate your water with dissolved oxygen. Pond Aeration Fine Filtration Reverse Osmosis Ozone Disinfection Does a Pill alone Keep You Healthy? Can a Chemical Alone Keep Your Water Healthy? information@dramm.com www.dramm.com 920.684.0227 Injecting a chemical alone does not clean your water. DRAMMwater employs multiple tech- nologies to solve your water problems. Dissolved oxygen can speed crop time, increase yields and improve your crop. GREENHOUSE TECHNOLOGY ID, then enter quantity and you're done. What's ready for sale is clear right from the greenhouse floor. Optionally, items can be flagged as "must go," or count by color can be added as well. In Color Point's case, using Quick Avail reduced a five- click process to a two- or three- click process making it possible to easily produce availability three times a week — unheard of before. Increased inventory visibility sped up order fulfillment, directly impacting Color Point's profitability. Reductions in data entry labor led to back office staff reductions from 11 to five, freeing up people for other tasks. Color Point can also queue up availability for the following week Wednesday through Sunday, flipping a switch takes it live on Sunday. PERPETUAL INVENTORY By contrast, Sawyer Nursery thrives in a perpetual inventory system. Using their ready dates to determine what's available for sale, Sawyer ships product according to their calendar. The piece missing from the process was the ability to grade product and prioritize it from one crop to another. For Sawyer, SBI introduced the Quick Grading Tool in the Inventory Control App. Quick Grading gives greenhouse staff the power to grade and rank inventory within ready dates so the product that is most ready to ship first actually does ship first. The window of retail readiness is sometimes small, so the ability to quickly grade and ship ready product minimizes waste. With Quick Grading the user can spread inventory quantities over multiple grades and order will automatically allocate to the grade that should ship first. The result is more efficient order fulfillment with the best product always out the door first. Paired with SBI's Racking Optimization tools and the rest of the various other beneficial system tools, Sawyer Nursery and its partnership with SBI has yielded massive efficiency gains year-on-year-on- year. Sawyer's project manager, Steve Brookhouse sums it up: Quick Grading gives greenhouse staff the power to grade and rank inventory within ready dates so the product that is most ready to ship first actually does ship first.