Improving Product and Inventory Management in FarmOS
Track products from harvest to storage to sale and from lbs to bags. Enable external sales platforms, like Open Food Network, to get a list of all available products from your farm.
Description
It is difficult to consistently track products (bushels of wheat, lbs of apples, pecks of peaches) in FarmOS today. While inventory tracking is technically possible, it is hard to visually connect a harvest in the field to a sales event across a meaningful product type. This feature allows you to connect production yields to product sales and manage a clear list of products. This is useful for inventory management (in FarmOS or for external services) and profitability / budgeting by product.
Outputs
1. To allow users to easily set up their crop and product lists in FarmOS.
2. Have a wide range of product types with a wide range of convertible packaging options (bulk lbs, bushels, sacks, pecks, bags, bunches, etc.) that can be converted between each other within the system.
3. External sales platforms can see a list of saleable inventory from my FarmOS instance.
Details
- Original scoping and outcomes are here
- These pages will be updated as the work progresses
- Phase I: https://gitlab.com/our-sci/partners/project-management/-/issues/140
- Phase II: https://gitlab.com/our-sci/partners/project-management/-/issues/141
Budget and Timing
Budget and Timing for this and related features can be found below, along with who will be contributing and completion estimates.
This is part of a suite of features whose goal is help make FarmOS a more accessible, easy to use, and applicable to appropriate designed for typical production systems, like row crop, orchard, and scaled diversified veggie. You can see and support all the features here. More detail about current work towards these goals in gitlab can be found here.
If you have questions or want a personal review of this feature, please contact [email protected].