Aptean’s AI-Powered Fresh Produce Software Suite The Next Generation in Enterprise Technology
Advanced Fresh Produce Solutions Built on Deep Expertise Aptean’s fresh produce software is developed by dedicated professionals who understand grower, processor, packer, shipper and distribution operations, not adapted from a generic platform. From sourcing and processing to quality, asset management and distribution, every application is purpose-built for the realities of your vertical, including limited shelf life, compliance pressure and narrow margins. That shows up in what the system delivers: less manual work, fewer surprises and a connected view across your business. So your team spends less time chasing data and more time acting on it. Decades of Experience Distilled: Tailored by specialized fresh produce experts Produce Pro Heritage Preserved: Specialized features carried over to next-gen solution AI That’s Embedded, Not Bolted On: Built into every application End-to-End Visibility and Control: Streamlined, integrated operations A Single Experienced Vendor: One long-term partner you can trust
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“Aptean Fresh Produce ERP is really allowing us to professionalize our operations and set us up for the future.” - Jeff McDonald, Senior Director, Fresh Connect Central
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Aptean AI Operating System for Fresh Produce Every Aptean application in your tech stack runs on Aptean AI Operating System (AIOS), the platform that turns your data into predictive visibility, automated workflows and insight your team can act on immediately. Aptean AIOS already understands the realities of your market, so you get AI built for your industry from day one, not a generic layer bolted on top. AppCentral is where applications live on Aptean AIOS, unified in one place and built for the complexities of fresh produce businesses.
Inside the Aptean AI Operating System One Platform, All Your Apps: Unified access to the full software suite Simplified and Streamlined Administration: Automated license and user administration, plus seamless integration and subscription control Robust Native AI Capabilities: Put the AIOS’s embedded AI features to work in every application (more on p. 10) Deploy Specialized AI Agents: Put digital workers to work across production, compliance, planning and sales (more on p. 12)
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Aptean Fresh Produce ERP: The Next Generation of Produce Pro Software All domains within your operation have to work in sync for your fresh produce company to run well. That’s why Aptean Fresh Produce ERP, the next generation of Produce Pro Software, connects them all in one system that’s tailored to how businesses like yours actually operate. Plus, it’s built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and hosted on the secure Azure cloud, so you get a familiar interface and dependable performance without adding IT overhead.
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Features and Functionalities End-to-End Traceability: Track every lot from raw material to finished case—including advanced attributes like variety—so you’re ready for any audit or recall. Planning and Scheduling: Build schedules around real demand, capacity and shelf life. Mobile Warehouse Management: Run receiving, put-away and picking from the floor while maintaining inventory visibility across all locations via trading board.
Quality Control: Enforce quality checks and holds at every stage of production. Customer Non-Conformance Management: Log, investigate and resolve customer complaints from a single record. Grower Management: Calculate prices for fresh products based on either “grade out” or “pack out” method. Flexible Trade Agreements: Set pricing and terms by customer, item or volume, and apply them automatically.
Supply Chain Management When your planning, sourcing and fulfillment teams work off different numbers and systems, getting everyone on the same page to make a decision can cost you the opportunity to respond to a disruption. That’s the gap Aptean’s supply chain management solutions close, connecting every step into one unified view—with advanced AI monitoring for exceptions and completing routine tasks so your team gets more time back to apply its most valuable asset: professional judgment.
Features and Functionalities
Product Lifecycle Management Getting a new product from concept to shelf means keeping development, packaging and compliance moving together, often across multiple teams. Aptean PLM Lascom Edition centralizes that work in one system, so you can design appealing products and get them to market faster. Built specifically for businesses like yours, it helps you accelerate innovation, cut costs and fuel growth in new markets and niches.
Features and Functionalities Formulation Tool: Streamline recipe development and optimize specs for both quality and cost. Label Management: Generate nutritional information and verify claims automatically. Portfolio Management: Respond faster to new consumer demands and trends.
Orchestration Software: Spot disruptions across your network in real time and respond with AI-recommended actions that can help improve margins by 2–5%. Supply Chain Planning: Sharpen demand and inventory forecasts and shorten planning cycles, improving forecast accuracy by up to 30% and cutting planning cycles by up to 60%. Sourcing and Procurement: Bring the same AI-driven visibility to supplier sourcing decisions. Manufacturing Operations: Connect planning to the shop floor with AI-driven scheduling and execution. Fulfillment: Coordinate order allocation, channel allocation and warehouse execution so the right product reaches the right place. Logistics: Plan and execute transportation moves networkwide, from the same AI-driven platform that powers the rest of your supply chain.
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Enterprise Asset Management
Aptean OEE puts real-time performance data directly into the hands of the people running your plant floor, closing a visibility gap that usually keeps critical numbers locked away until it’s too late to act on them.
Equipment failures rarely happen without warning, and if you can catch the signs in time, you can start to build a proactive approach to machine upkeep instead of a reactive one. Real-time visibility into asset conditions, delivered through Aptean EAM, connects maintenance to the rest of your business, so your team acts before a failure, not after one.
With full visibility from batching through packaging, you get up-to-date metrics on plan attainment and units per human hour, helping you build a culture of continuous improvement across every line.
Features and Functionalities
It also keeps maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) inventory at the right levels, cutting disruptions and giving you more efficient, lowercost operations.
Real-Time Performance Metrics: Measure plan attainment and OEE as production happens.
Features and Functionalities
Continuous Improvement: Track and improve changeover, clean-in-place (CIP) and sanitation times.
Maintenance Scheduling: Automate and optimize maintenance procedures.
Loss and Waste Monitoring: Pinpoint the mechanical and/or technical issues driving loss so you can fix them.
Asset Performance Monitoring: Track performance in real time and prevent downtime. Inventory Control: Efficiently manage spare parts and inventory.
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Electronic Data Interchange
Transportation Management
Manual document exchange slows down every order, invoice and shipment update, and the delays compound the further downstream they travel. Automating that exchange with your trading partners is what Aptean EDI does best, cutting manual work and keeping data accurate and current.
Manual route planning eats staff time and fuel budgets, and once you’re managing multi-channel, multi-mode distribution across spreadsheets, it can quickly devolve into chaos. To address these challenges, Aptean’s transportation software brings together AI-powered route optimization, a versatile transportation management system (TMS) and end-to-end fulfillment and logistics capabilities.
It speeds up collaboration and transactions and reduces supply chain bottlenecks, streamlining order processing, invoicing and fulfillment so operations stay reliable and aligned with industry demands.
Features and Functionalities
Real-time visibility across your distribution operations helps you minimize failed deliveries, reduce shipping errors, improve on-time deliveries and enhance customer experience. Whether you run a private fleet, work with contracted carriers or both, Aptean can help you get the most out of your transportation network.
Automated Document Exchange: Exchange orders, invoices and key documents automatically.
Features and Functionalities
Real-Time Data Synchronization: Keep information current across all partners.
Automated Route Planning: Automatically create routes for minimal mileage, reduced fuel consumption and optimized resource utilization.
Compliance Management: Meet regulatory and trading partner standards.
Multi-Modal, Multi-Carrier Management: Shop for the best carrier rates to protect your margins. Live Execution Tracking: Monitor vehicles and delivery performance in real time. BROCHURE | APTEAN’S AI-POWERED FRESH PRODUCE SOFTWARE SUITE | 9
AI That Understands Your Business.
Aptean AIOS is the engine behind every application in your AppCentral suite. It embeds AI directly into your workflows and workspaces, turning everyday work into intelligent action. Ask natural-language questions about your data, develop agents without coding, automate workflows and access executive-ready insights, all with natural language. These native features of the platform help your staff make their best decisions and deliver better customer outcomes more efficiently.
GenAI Query Ask questions in plain language and get real-time answers and charts—no BI queue, no spreadsheets. This gives every role a faster path from data to decision, reducing reporting delays and revealing issues before they grow. Ask questions to get natural-language answers with instant visualizations Pin favorites for a live, personal pulse Speak to a chat or voice assistant with one-click share and export
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Intelligent Workflows
Workspaces
Enable no/low-code event-driven automation that listens for business signals and orchestrates cross-system actions in real time. Automated workflows and human-in-the-loop approvals cut manual effort and protect margin.
Give every role a personalized, AI-first workspace with daily digests, natural-language Q&A and instant drilldowns. Get a live pulse of your business and one-tap delegation to move decisions forward, anytime, anywhere.
Deploy real-time event triggers across systems (350+ connectors)
Distribute AI-driven daily digests by role and topic
Set up AI-driven steps with human-in-the-loop approvals
Find answers through natural-language Q&A with instant drilldowns
Build once with reusable templates, backed by full audit trails
Stay agile with one-tap delegation and mobile and voice access
Scale from a single workflow to enterprise-wide orchestration without a new integration project
Access Workspaces from wherever your team already works
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AI Agents Built for Every Part of Your Operation
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Here’s just a sampling of Aptean’s AI agents, all built to bring proactive automation to the parts of fresh produce operations that used to depend on manual review: product variance, supplier performance, demand planning, warehouse picking, regulatory compliance and near-expiry pricing. Each is purpose-built for your vertical’s pace, compliance needs and quality standards, so decisions happen faster and more consistently, with your team approving every action along the way.
Vendor Scorecard Agent
Dynamic Planning & Forecasting Agent
Scores and ranks every supplier on reliability, cost, quality and compliance, so your team negotiates from data, not guesswork. Ask why a score looks the way it does, and get a straight answer: the late delivery, the cost change or the failed quality check behind it.
Production planners lose hours each week piecing together plans by hand, only to watch shortages undo them anyway. This agent automates the netting and scenario work behind a readyto-approve plan, so your team spends less time building plans and more time deciding among them.
Pick Generator Agent
Production Efficiency Agent
Optimized, rules-compliant pick sequences can cut average picking time by 20% or more. Before anyone walks the floor, it has already simulated the path and applied your warehouse’s own rules, tightening FEFO compliance and cutting waste along the way.
Compares every production order against its bill of materials (BOM) and routing, flags the items and work centers where actual usage keeps drifting from plan, backing each finding with evidence—helping cut unexplained variances by 30% or more, so your team fixes root causes instead of chasing symptoms.
Regulatory Compliance & Audit Agent
Sales Push Agent
You stay ahead of an audit instead of scrambling during one: the agent continuously validates compliance data and reconstructs end-to-end traceability on demand. Across purchasing, production and shipping, it rates every exception by severity, so your team knows what to fix first.
Scans near-expiry inventory and current market conditions to recommend sale prices that help recover revenue before stock is written off. It applies the smallest effective markdown on items in short supply to protect margin and prices aging stock to move before it becomes a write-off.
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Extended Capabilities Aptean Pay
Aptean WMS
Online Payments
Warehouse Management
Aptean ePOD
Aptean Ship
Electronic Proof of Delivery
Shipping
Aptean Advanced Workflow Process Automation
“As a business, we have confidence that we have the pieces that we need in place, and the system touches just about everything we do.” - Terrie Molina, Director of Technology and Improvement, Packaged Produce Solutions
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Trusted and Proven Aptean’s cloud-native food and beverage ERP system is built on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform and comes with built-in AI capabilities.
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New Functionalities Added in the Last 3 Years
1.5K+
Global Food and Beverage Customers
30+
Years of Development in the Industry
30K
Users Around the World
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