ERP System: Seed-to-Sale Software

Seed-to-sale software is more commonly utilized by the cannabis industry. However, those systems typically lack all of the capabilities of an ERP system. GrowerIQ seed-to-sale software is designed to address this gap and provide a functional seed-to-sale, ERP, quality management system, and cultivation software all in one.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is software that integrates the management of your business in real-time. For the Canadian cannabis industry, more than your average legacy ERP system is needed to keep up with The Cannabis Act and its Regulations though. ERP software is not typically designed for agricultural industries like cannabis where there are complex cultivation systems and legal compliance requirements to abide by.

Financial managerial solutions for cannabis need to meet many standard business needs such as:

• Finance and accounting
• Human resources
• Purchasing
• Inventory management
• Sales

But for the cannabis industry specifically, an ERP needs to also integrate production and cultivation tracking. With GrowerIQ seed-to-sale software, your ERP is fully integrated with cultivation software. If your sales team needs to know when the next harvest of a strain is, they will be able to easily see that data and batch planning information. When such a high degree of information can be easily and accurately share among employees, all aspects of the business benefit.

Since GrowerIQ seed-to-sale software empowers companies to maintain a high degree of control over their cultivation schedule and metrics, making accurate financial projections is also easy. Reporting your financial records and production records to Health Canada doesn’t have to be a difficult chore when you have one system that tracks all your activities. Some unlucky cultivators have QA team members solely dedicated to compiling and reporting the thousands of columns of data required by Health Canada. Free up your team for more valuable work when using a seed-to-sale system with integrated ERP.

Batch insights help keep crops on schedule and maintains your inventory of plant material along with growing supplies. With such accuracy, your purchasing team will easily be able to ensure that supplies don’t run out, and refills arrive on time for the next batch. GrowerIQ can retain all of the purchasing records for supplies and your received cannabis material material. If there is an adverse event or deviation that needs to be investigated, your QA team will be able to access that information with ease and get to the root of the issue, along with any corrective actions required, sooner and with more precision.

To use GrowerIQ seed-to-sale software for inventory tracking you can utilize scanners to track plants, adjust your inventory of supplies, and paper records can be uploaded to the GrowerIQ document repository for retention.

Types of inventory tracked by GrowerIQ include:

• Raw materials, primary packaging materials, and product labels
• Inventory of all cannabis plants
• Inventory deductions of plants removed from lots or batches
• In-process cannabis product and finished product
• Destroyed cannabis and fresh cannabis sent for diagnostic testing

All your shipping and receiving team needs to do is enter supply information into the software and your purchasing team will be able to see that information. They’ll also be able to see when supplies need to be re-ordered.

Human resources may not seem like a normal seed-to-software feature, and it isn’t, but GrowerIQ is an all-in-one system. Cannabis businesses need to manage employees like any other business. However, Health Canada requires a greater degree of tracking and documentation for cannabis workers. Especially when it comes to training records! With the GrowerIQ document repository, these records can be retained indefinitely without the need for massive filing cabinets. Employee permissions and access can also be controlled to ensure that employees who are not trained on a task are not performing those tasks.

How many records do you need to retain and for how long? Health Canada requires a lot of paperwork for cannabis production and distribution. Paper records can be easily lost or destroyed. With the GrowerIQ document repository, you can significantly reduce your paperwork and operational complexity. Every single activity is digitally logged and timestamped. In general, according to Canadian regulation, you must retain records of various types for a number of years. See the table below for record retention periods (though as regulations frequently change, please get in touch with the GrowerIQ consulting team for the latest opinion):

Finally, GrowerIQ seed-to-sale-software truly tracks all the activities, supplies, and people involved with the business, including customers and distributors. Health Canada requires all cannabis material to be tracked meticulously, and with GrowerIQ that isn’t just possible - it is easy! With this level of attention to detail, expect cannabis sales to soar.