Young’s Plant Farm wins award for scanning system

Young’s Plant Farm in Auburn, Ala., won first place in the Innovation category for the 2011 Sage Customer Awards. Young's teamed with Practical Software Solutions to add Scan By Cart capabilities to Sage ERP MAS 500 Grower Vertical. The Innovation Award recognizes the extraordinary achievement of a customer that adopted Sage applications as an enterprise-class solution for its industry.
Scan By Cart was developed after one of Young’s Plant Farm’s big-box retailers changed its UPC system to give unique codes for every plant variety and color. The retailer now has more than 20 UPCs to account for different combinations.
Scan By Cart rebuilds sales orders and generates all the shipping orders, documents and labels as product is loaded onto delivery trucks. This is done with the use of hand-held devices and bar code technology.
“This has reduced our customer receipt errors to less than 1%,” said Bryan Young, general manager of Young’s Plant Farm. Young said this is especially important when dealing with a live product that can’t be restocked if the order is sent incorrectly.
This is the second time a Practical Software Solutions’ customer was honored for its work on Grower Vertical. In 2008, Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville, N.C., won first place in the Best Use of Customization category for the Sage Customer Awards for their work with Practical Software Solutions in developing the Grower Vertical module. Grower Vertical provides a customizable, scalable, and full-featured enterprise management system designed for specific needs of the horticulture industry.