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If You Advise Vegetable Growers, Distributors or Food Hubs

Your clients are running serious operations on infrastructure that was never designed to scale with them.

The gap between what their manual logs, spreadsheets, and disconnected point systems can do and what their buyers are about to require isn't a technology problem — it's a business risk that's about to become a revenue problem.

The Pattern

The compliance conversation is already happening.

One of the larger organic produce distributors required Food Safety FSMA 204-equivalent traceability data from its entire supplier network ahead of the FDA's own enforcement deadline. Not because the FDA required it yet. Because the distributor required it.

That's the pattern. Buyer-imposed compliance pressure, independent of regulatory timelines, landing on farms that aren't ready for it.

Your clients who are selling through serious distribution channels are already in this conversation whether they know it or not. Vegetable Production Management (VPM) gives them a structured response — and gives you a concrete recommendation to make.

Compliance that pays for itself

The infrastructure that answers a traceability audit also answers the questions your clients actually care about.

Which of my buyers generates the best margin after all the overhead?
Where does the money go between the field and the invoice?
What is compliance actually costing my operation this season?

One investment. Compliance covered. Operational intelligence unlocked. The ROI conversation writes itself.

Built on Microsoft

Familiar. Supportable. Extensible.

VPM is built entirely on Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse — the same ecosystem your clients may already use for accounting, email, and Office productivity. No exotic stack. No proprietary vendor to depend on. No black box your clients can't see into.

Over 50 years of enterprise consulting, systems integration, and business process engineering went into the architecture. It holds up under scrutiny.

If your clients need implementation support, that's a conversation worth having too.

Compliance Coverage

Built into the foundation — not bolted on.

USDA Organic Certification workflow support — input records, field logs, certifier documentation
Food Safety FSMA 204 traceability chain — seed to sales order, bidirectional
Lot number assigned at Pack Run. The Harvest Record is the required link between the growing cycle and the processing and sales cycle — established once, at the initial Pack Run. Lot Numbers can be subsequently repacked into new, fully traceable, Lot Numbers as required.
Audit-ready record structure throughout — no manual reassembly when a compliance request lands

Let's walk through a specific client situation.

Every client situation is different. Walk us through yours and we'll show you where VPM fits — and what the recommendation looks like.