Pacifica
Seed Inventory Control
:: In Brief
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:: In Brief
It's an unexpected pleasure to find comprehensive seed inventory control in an accounting system. Especially when it's completely integrated with payables and receivables, as it is in Pacifica.  But this is not ordinary accounting. This is software designed to run your business all day, every day, where Management Information turns your inventory into profit.

Accounting software has its place in running your business. It provides the numbers demanded by your accountant, the bank and the tax man. Pacifica can do that better than anyone. We offer solid, double-entry accounting, the strongest audit trails in the industry, and financials based on real-time detail. But that's history. That all happened last month, too long ago to help manage inventory right this minute.

Daydream for a moment, and imagine an inventory management system that satisfies your buyers, your warehouse people, your sales staff, your customers, your accountant. It would give you up-to-the-minute detail, but it wouldn't bog down and would be low-maintenance. Data would be entered only once, and the system could generate information to satisfy everyone on your staff.

Pacifica offers that kind of inventory management, and at a very low price. Pacifica is much less expensive than other high-end systems that are only designed for back-office accounting. Considerations ignored by other inventory systems, such as lot control, effortless unit of measure conversion, mixes and blends, production management, trials management, and pedigree and hybrids management are a part of Pacifica Seed Inventory Control.

:: Developed by Seedsmen for Seedsmen
Pacifica is entirely multi-user and is designed for high-volume operation. Why is that important? Inventory is the key link between buying and selling. When you sell seed, purchasing needs to know. Not at the end of the month, but right now. When seed is received, sales needs to know that it's available. Projected production and booking commitments must be at your fingertips, accessible at a moment's notice. Pacifica allows your whole company to work together at once, as one beautifully coordinated and integrated unit.
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:: Designed with these goals in mind
It must be a complete solution.
Pacifica is much more than accounting. It addresses all facets of producing, purchasing, selling and costing seed.

It must be fast and easy to use.
If a system is cumbersome and awkward, it can't possibly reach its full potential. Pacifica is designed from its very roots in the C language to its elegant user interface to be efficient and fast.

The data belongs to you.
We don't lock it away and lock you out. We don't delete any details during a month-end posting. Every iota of detail can be displayed and edited in the future.

The data must be secure.
You control the privileges of those who use Pacifica. Only those authorized can view, change or delete data. You control access to specific sections of Pacifica.

The accounting must be correct.
The foundations of Pacifica are solid, double entry accounting. Our audit trails are the strongest in the industry.

It must meet your needs.
By its design, Pacifica is flexible, but for a perfect fit, Pacifica is also customizable, with program source available.


:: Do you know where your seed is?

For every dollar in the bank, you probably have a hundred times that much in your inventory. The financial forces that erode your cash are working even more destructively on your inventory. When your inventory isn't turning, it's costing you, and Pacifica gives you powerful ways to solve this problem.

Pacifica can show you your best (and worst) performing items based on turns, profit or dollar volume, over any time period and across any specie.

And Pacifica's powerful inventory analysis reports let you evaluate the performance of individual salesmen or customers. Our forecasting and projection reports help you to accurately estimate sales into future years.

:: Simple to set up...
Variety and lot records need to be set up only once in Pacifica. Items can be changed and updated any time, even after they have been used on orders and invoices.

:: Easy to maintain...
Physical inventory adjustments are easy, and you don't need to close up shop to take a physical count. A partial physical can be taken by warehouse location and aisle, for a product range, even while sales are occurring.

:: And rich in features
Pacifica properly handles purchases, sales and all adjustments in any unit of measure, including pounds, ounces, kilograms, grams, per seed, per M (thousand seeds), 10M or 100M, per acre or hectare, per bushel, each, or a unit of measure of your own design, with automatic and transparent conversion to any other unit of measure.

Any number of quantity break and price code lines can be set up for each variety or lot to achieve fine control over pricing. In addition, the customer record can have its own list of special exception prices. Costs are maintained at the lot level, and may be accrued against acquisition, freight, production, conditioning and processing, and overhead.

Lots may be split into sub-lots, representing multiple locations, package sizes, treatments, owners, selling prices or costs, all without losing lot identity. Lots may be flagged and reported on in a wide variety of ways, including stock seed, consignments, stop sale/rejected/returned, production, trial/sample, coated, blended, not owned by us and dormant.

Complete test results for germ, purity and performance are permanently maintained in the lot record for as many tests as you want to track.

If you do blends or mixes, you already know what a tedious and time-consuming job it is. Pacifica can mix or blend up to 200 varieties or lots to meet a target quantity and germ automatically and with no calculations... in a split-second!

Print package or bin labels on demand, automatically from purchase invoices, sales orders and sales invoices, in any format and with any content, including mixes and blends, bar codes, and full color photographs.

If you manage your own production, or you need to manage the production for your growers, Pacifica includes a comprehensive production management module, fully integrated with inventory control, to keep you on top of what will be available for the coming season.

If your vendors allocate product to you, or you need to allocate product to your customers, you'll appreciate Pacifica's easy-to-use vendor and customer allocations. And we also take care of varieties that require authorization before selling.

Use Pacifica's powerful trials management subsystem to track and report on in-depth trials results, filtered by any criteria your customer needs to see.

Plant breeders will appreciate Pacifica's full-featured breeder/pedigree/hybrids subsystem, which tracks and reports all facets of your breeder program, relieving you of the tedious record keeping.

:: Big Business Control for your Business
Until now, effective inventory management was beyond the means of most small and medium sized businesses. With Pacifica, it is no longer expensive and labor-intensive to apply the same controls that large businesses employ.

Better yet, you can try Pacifica with no risk whatsoever. A fully running version of all Pacifica products is available to evaluate on your own network.

You expect to turn your seed inventory into gold, so give yourself the right tool. Pacifica is that tool.

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