Fortune Growers turned unused data into faster decisions.

Fortune Growers is a grower-shipper with two decades in fresh produce, operations in the Midwest, California, and South Texas, and supply relationships that reach across the border. Like most of the industry, the business ran on an ERP full of answers nobody had time to dig out.

“Payve has been an absolute game changer for Fortune Growers. Partnering with Payve instantly felt like we added an entire crew of dedicated specialists to our workforce. Payve helped us harness an unbelievable amount of unused data to make decisions faster and earlier, saving dozens of hours and eliminating thousands of dollars in waste and inefficiency every week.”

The problem

The data was there. The hours were not.

Sales history, purchase orders, inventory, price lists, quality inspections, and market prices lived in systems that never talked. Answering a simple question meant someone exporting, cross referencing, and rebuilding the same spreadsheet every week.

Payve agents connected to the systems Fortune Growers already ran and unified that data daily. Now the team asks questions in plain English and gets answers with the numbers behind them, and the questions they used to ask every morning arrive answered, as scheduled briefings: sales and receivables reports, market snapshots against USDA prices, and receivables-risk digests before the workday starts.

The solution

The busywork moved to agents.

The same agents handle the entry work around the money: invoices itemized and reconciled, documents matched to the right orders, and customer complaints traced to the affected lots with a drafted root-cause analysis. A person at Fortune Growers approves every write before anything posts.

The clearest example is voucher entry. Cold storage service invoices used to be keyed into the ERP by hand, about 800 entries a month at roughly 3 minutes each. Agents now read, itemize, and enter those vouchers in batches the team approves, returning about 40 hours of entry work to the back office every month. When something in a load does not match, the agent flags it with the records attached, so problems get reported with evidence instead of found at reconciliation.

Loops watch the rest: scheduled checks on sales pace and receivables that alert the team the moment something moves.

Payments run through the same platform, so paying growers and suppliers on both sides of the border happens from one place, and suppliers can choose early payment on approved invoices.