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MILK SOLUTIONS
Overview
Managing the milk supply chain with excellence is critical since milk drives over 60% of the cost for a dairy manufacturer. Dairy.com has built a powerful suite of web-based applications to track and account for milk as it moves from the farm to the plant silo. Learn more about each milk solution module below.

Dispatch
Take control over your milk shed (routes, haulers, customers) with Dispatch. Gain instant visibility to all your supply & demand and make smarter allocation decisions. Dairy.com's Dispatch solution offers these features:

○ Supply schedule representing assembled loads
○ Demand schedule representing customer needs
○ Plant interface for placing and managing orders
○ Vendor managed inventory module
○ Dispatch engine to match supply and demand
○ Templates (apply "routine" schedules each week)
○ Notification engine to communicate with haulers & plants
○ Rejected loads
○ Stair-step, reassign, dump and send excess to balancing plants
○ Share milk pools with agency partners
○ Publish delivered weights & tests for plant access
○ Unique load numbers to track milk through hauling and plant receipt

Click here to request more information on Dairy.com's Dispatch module.


Producer Payroll

Managing your membership with excellence is of the utmost importance - especially paying them on time and with accuracy. We know because we've now been in the producer payroll business for 20 years in one form or fashion. Two years ago, Dairy.com crossed a major milestone by migrating its Producer Payroll application to a 100% web-based solution. We now handle all the technology infrastructure needs and you simply access your customized installation via a web browser. We've stripped out the expensive IT cost and frustrating obsolescence issue and have left you with what you really need -- these big coop features:

○ Milk manifest entry
○ Fax/ocr import utility
○ Payroll processing
○ Pooling
○ Lab result import utility
○ Incentives & premiums (including ad-hoc and seasonal)
○ Assignments & deductions
○ Check processing (ACH/direct deposit)
○ Hauler payment
○ Document archiving and management (rBST free, membership docs, etc.)
○ Mailing lists/labels
○ Reporting (pdf, xls)
○ MA reporting
○ Forward contracts
○ Plant billing
○ Outside milk tracking 
○ Member equity 
○ Field rep portal
○ Publish producer info to web


Contact our producer payroll experts and find out how you can drive down technology costs and increase customer service levels for your membership.


Receiving & Tracking
Thousands of loads move daily from the farm to the plant. Each of these loads have tremendous complexity (multiple farms, comingled amongst coops, multiple compartments, multiple haulers, etc...). The industry approach has been to capture data in separate buyer and supplier systems and then scramble to share the data when its time to balance and pay the milk invoice. Dairy.com now solves this paper chase with an easy-to-deploy solution allowing milk suppliers and customer plants to better manage the milk receipt process. Select system features include:

○ Plant receipt log configurable by user (receiving clerk, lab, accounting)
○ Track over 50 milk attributes (weight and quality)
○ Shared load visibility by plants and cooperatives
○ Supplier upload utility
○ Auto matching of seller and buyer load info
○ Accelerated balancing & settlement

Contact Dairy.com today and eliminate the useless duplication in data between milk supplier and buyer.


rBST CertCheck
Many of the largest US milk processors are converting to rBST-free milk by February 1, 2008. Is your organization ready for this shift? Or is your plan to fax affidavits to each of the receiving plants -- burdening both your staff and your customers in the process?

Dairy.com offers a web-based solution that solves the dilemma you're facing.  With our technology you can:

  1. Store images of your producer affidavits (note: we can also connect to your existing document repository)
  2. Allow plants and regulators to view those certificates via a web browser
  3. Provide a convenient list of rBST-free producers for plants to print out and use upon load receipt
Dairy.com already has thousands of users in hundreds of dairy plants who are set up with usernames and passwords. We simply configure them to view your affidavits. Moreover, your customers now have one central place, Dairy.com, to view certificates across all their milk suppliers--eliminating the issue of having to log into multiple systems.

Contact us now and put a first class rBST CertCheck in place today.


EXPERT INSIGHT

"Managing the milk supply chain is fundamental to our business and meeting our customers' needs is paramount. Our customers want a streamlined process to plan, administer and manage milk orders and quality. Dairy.com gives us that ability to better serve our customers, which we believe will translate into increased sales and lower costs for us all."

Jay Bryant, General Manager of Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers

"The scheduling program reduces man hours for my department. It remembers previous schedules, automatically logs changes and notifies haulers and plants of changes. It allows my team to focus on scheduling milk more efficiently and provides better customer service."

Craig Gentry, Traffic Manager at Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers

"Dairy.com Payroll is very user friendly. Our users can quickly configure the application, with no programming costs, to respond to changes in market conditions. Our entire staff (gm, payroll dept, field reps) have web-based access to the same information. Moreover, Dairy.com maintains all the hardware and software so MDVA can keep a lean IT department."

Charlie Fisher, Manager Member Services at Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers
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