Computer System
Fischer Worldwide's computer system, implemented in January 2000, has been a big asset to the company - even a source of envy for many. The system keeps track of production practices and details, such as what temperature a crop was grown at last year at this time, so growers can reference the data and use it for their current crops. It also monitors and operates the environmental controls systems in the Eastfields facilities.
"I was able to see the system four years ago in one of its original development forms and I was truly amazed and envious at that time," says Herb VanderEnde, Burnaby Lake Greenhouses. "What they have created now is probably a standard that many other companies with multiple cutting production facilities, whether worldwide or just in one state, should strive for."
With sales offices in several countries and the United States using cutting inventory
from several of the same farms, something is needed to keep it all straight, Falkenstein says. "Without our worldwide computer systems, we basically could not function," he says. "With the exception of the current supply problems with Americanas, we are and we have been among the best in supply and reliability in all of our markets, from what we are told by our customers."
Personally, Falkenstein says he feels the system has no equal. "I don't mean this in an arrogant way," he says. "It's just that we have seen so many companies not give enough effort toward accurate numbers and issues of inventory, whereas our system is built first on issues of accurate inventory - then to issues of ease of use and transactions of business."
Fischer Worldwide's computer system, implemented in January 2000, has been a big asset to the company - even a source of envy for many. The system keeps track of production practices and details, such as what temperature a crop was grown at last year at this time, so growers can reference the data and use it for their current crops. It also monitors and operates the environmental controls systems in the Eastfields facilities.
from several of the same farms, something is needed to keep it all straight, Falkenstein says. "Without our worldwide computer systems, we basically could not function," he says. "With the exception of the current supply problems with Americanas, we are and we have been among the best in supply and reliability in all of our markets, from what we are told by our customers."