Fungi Delecti Fresh Produce Video Case Study

See how Fungi Delecti, a family-run fresh produce and food wholesale business in Jersey with 1,600 active lines available for daily delivery, uses WinMan ERP to hit a midday cut-off for same-day delivery, control margins daily and trace every product from enquiry to delivery. 


In this video, Fungi Delecti explains how the daily running of a fast fresh produce operation moved out of the founder's head and into a system, how 150 pallets a week are booked in, stickered, picked and invoiced through WinMan, and what a system the business can rely on has meant for a family-run wholesaler. 

Key results from the Fungi Delecti video case study

  • Takes any order placed before 12:00 noon for same-day delivery, moving 150 pallets of fresh produce a week from booking in and box-by-box stickering through picking to invoicing: "It's seamless."
  • Controls margins daily: "We're able to control the margins on a daily basis to know exactly where we are and where we should be."
  • Gives customers a full traceability audit trail across the whole product life, from enquiry to delivery, at the touch of a button.
  • Analyses wastage through simple reports, which for a fresh produce supplier is a daily cost rather than a month-end number.
  • Moved the daily running of the business out of the founder's head and into a system, freeing the directors to visit more suppliers and check product quality. 
  • The system is tailored to fresh produce and food wholesale, still in use seven years later with very little change. 
  • Created the work-life balance the family was aiming for, because the system controls the building: "it doesn't need to rely on us 100% of the time".

Fresh produce ERP FAQs 

How does ERP software support a fresh produce wholesaler?
ERP software supports a fresh produce wholesaler by linking buying, stock, picking, delivery and invoicing to the same live data, which matters most when the product has a short shelf life and prices move daily. Fungi Delecti routes the whole operation through WinMan, across 1,600 active lines available for daily delivery, and treats the figures the system produces as the operational record for the business. 
How can an ERP system support same-day delivery with a midday order cut-off?
An ERP system supports a same-day cut-off by moving an order into picking as soon as it is taken, so the warehouse works from live order data rather than a printed list from earlier in the day. Fungi Delecti accepts any order placed before 12:00 noon for same-day delivery, with 150 pallets of fresh produce a week booked in, stickered box by box, held in the system, picked and delivered out. The office, the sales side, the pickers and invoicing are tied into one flow.
Can ERP reporting show where wastage is happening?
Yes. Because stock movements, dates and locations are recorded against the same records, reports can show how long a product has been held and where it is being written off, rather than leaving waste as a single figure at the end of the month. Wastage is a daily cost for a fresh produce supplier, and Fungi Delecti uses simple reports in WinMan to work out where theirs is coming from, alongside daily margin figures. 
Will a tailored ERP system still work years after go-live?
A tailored ERP setup lasts when the tailoring is built on the core product rather than bolted alongside it, because it keeps working as the standard system is updated. WinMan tailored the system towards fresh produce and food wholesale for Fungi Delecti, and the kiosks put in at the time were still running seven years later with very little change.


Read the transcript from the Fungi Delecti video case study, covering fresh produce wholesale, same-day delivery, traceability, wastage reporting and daily margin control with WinMan ERP.

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00:00:03 - 00:00:30 "The impact that WinMan has had on the business has been hugely important. I don't like to think of a time without WinMan. We're able to control the margins on a daily basis to know exactly where we are and where we should be. To be able to rely and know that you're in a safe pair of hands has been brilliant."

00:00:41 - 00:01:03 "We're a medium-sized food wholesale business located in Jersey. We've been going for 26 years now. We started off with one product; I started selling my dad's shiitake mushrooms, he was doing log-growing. I started selling them to restaurants and one product led to another. Now we have 1,600 active lines all available for daily delivery."

00:01:04 - 00:01:43 "The speed that we work at is crucially important. Through this building alone, we'll do 150 pallets of fresh produce a week. It needs to be booked in, individually stickered on every box, held in the system, picked, and delivered out, sometimes same-day. We take any order placed before 12:00 noon for same-day delivery. WinMan allows us to process those procedures very quickly, tying the office into the sales side and the pickers to the invoicing. It's seamless."

00:01:44 - 00:02:10 "WinMan is now fundamental to who Fungi are. This system is trusted and used every single moment that this business is operating. We are routing everything through WinMan and we completely trust and rely on the figures it produces, whether it's live stock levels or the traceability audit trail. We just couldn't operate without it."

00:02:11 - 00:02:48 "When we went out to tender, I needed to get the daily running of my business out of my head and into a system so the system could then manage the business. We've achieved that. It allows us the time to focus on other key areas, to visit more suppliers and check that the products we're buying are the ones we need. Before, every day was like a restaurant service; now we can take our time to make sure we're running efficiently."

00:02:49 - 00:03:11 "WinMan worked very quickly and well in being able to tailor the system to us, towards fresh produce and food wholesale. Those kiosks are still running now, seven years later, with very little change to them. The core data that links back into the WinMan product works very, very well."

00:03:12 - 00:04:00 "Highlights of using WinMan are pure efficiency. To be able to track where a product is and how much it's been sitting here is hugely important. To offer our customers full traceability all the way through the flow of that product life, from enquiry to delivery, at the touch of a button is vital. As a fresh produce supplier, wastage is key, and we can analyse that data through simple reports to work out where our wastage is."

00:04:01 - 00:04:30 "From my personal point of view, what it's done for me and the family, because Fungi is a family business, has been brilliant. The work-life balance that we strive towards has been created. It's been created because there's a system in place that is controlling the building, so it doesn't need to rely on us 100% of the time."

If you are shifting perishable stock against a same-day cut-off, and the day-to-day running of it still lives in one person's head, book a WinMan demo to see how Fungi Delecti books in, stickers, picks and invoices 150 pallets of fresh produce a week, and traces every line from enquiry to delivery.

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