Introducing The Hectre Analytics Pro: A Comprehensive Real-Time View Of Your Orchard’s Activity

At Hectre, innovation drives our solutions, and for years now, our orchard management app has been leading the charge against inefficient and frustrating processes. Designed for real-time efficiency, we’ve been digitizing field data entry, streamlining payroll, improving traceability and slashing paperwork which has been providing valuable data to support effective decision-making. This leap from manual to digital has been empowering growers with instant insights, enhancing productivity and quality control.

The Hectre Analytics Pro takes it a step further by using the data captured through the Hectre app to provide a comprehensive, real-time overview of orchard activities directly inside your orchard’s BI tools. As soon as a timesheet, bin or QC sample is created in the field, that same data will be reflected through your BI software. No two orchards operate the same, so the flexibility of the Hectre Analytics Pro gives you the freedom to integrate and use this valuable information how you see fit.

Centrally monitor the performance of all your picking teams throughout the day. By combining the data from Hectre’s picking and QC modules, you’ll not only get insights on the speed of your pickers, but also on how gentle they are when picking the fruit.

This objective intel can be used to provide feedback to supervisors so that teams that are performing well can be rewarded for their efforts and those teams that aren’t can receive targeted feedback straightaway, so that corrective measures can be taken before the rest of that day is lost.

By closely monitoring picking speed and fruit quality, the Hectre Analytics Pro helps in making substantial improvements in cost efficiency and fruit quality, which are crucial when the fruits are packed and sold, as they directly influence profitability.

Beyond daily operations, the Hectre Analytics Pro is valuable in strategic planning. It can show aggregated data over several years and provide meaningful comparisons between year-on-year performance of blocks, and compare blocks apples-to-apples at a cost per acre, or cost per bin of fruit produced.

By connecting the Hectre Analytics Pro into your existing BI solution, you can mix all your cost centers, whether that be labor, agrichemicals, general expenses etc. with your sales data in order to identify which blocks are your most and least profitable. This in turn will give you the insight to decide which varieties or canopy styles to plant next.

The versatility of the Hectre Analytics Pro extends to its compatibility with your choice of BI or data warehousing tool, for example PowerBI, Snowflake, and Tableau. This flexibility means that orchards can merge labor cost data from Hectre with other crucial data sources like sales figures and orchard expenses into a central location so that they can make informed decisions using valuable real-time data.

A select few customers have already been leveraging the power of the Hectre Analytics Pro during the NZ apple season. If you’re interested in being one of the first to get your hands on the Hectre Analytics Pro, contact us below.