This procedure involves a quality, weight, ambient and produce temperature check.

On arrival, crops are taken into stock during the Inward Harvest procedure. This procedure involves a quality, weight, ambient and produce temperature check. Each Stock unit is given a unique identification number and corresponding pallet card / label. The appropriate Field, Plot, Harvest Supervisor and Team information is associated with each Stock Unit. Each Stock Unit is moved to a designated Stock Location marked with a warehouse management location identifier to record the movement. All processes in the Pack house can be described by either a movement, an operation or a combination of both.

Typically bulk bins that have been temperature and humidity controlled after inward harvest are moved from cool cells, reweighed, moved and tipped to one of our production lines. After the bulk bins have been depleted at the beginning of the line, finished materials are created at the end of the line. Finished materials movement is then recorded to cool cell locations before final load out pallet depletion to Paul Brophy or customer transport.

Mark Walsh - Paul Brophy Produce, Ireland