PROPOSED PROJECT
Harvest Delivery Planner
Help produce cooperatives plan pickups before crops miss their buyer's delivery window. Combine grower estimates, past harvest records, confirmed orders, truck capacity, and shelf-life rules to forecast volumes and compare daily collection plans, with dispatchers confirming the final schedule.
1,250 kg estimated. 1,100 kg planned.
Vehicle capacity: 1,200 kg
Buyer order: 1,100 kg
450 kg pickup
- Grower estimate
- 500 kg
- Unallocated estimate
- 50 kg
- Load after pickup
- 450 kg
350 kg pickup
- Grower estimate
- 400 kg
- Unallocated estimate
- 50 kg
- Load after pickup
- 800 kg
300 kg pickup
- Grower estimate
- 350 kg
- Unallocated estimate
- 50 kg
- Load after pickup
- 1100 kg
The project in practice.
Three fictional growers estimate 500, 400, and 350 kg: 1,250 kg in total. A vehicle has 1,200 kg of usable produce capacity after crates and equipment, and a buyer confirms 1,100 kg. Proposed pickups are 450, 350, and 300 kg. A timed route leaves at 07:30, reaches the buyer at 10:15 inside its 10:00–11:00 window, and stays within a supplied four-hour first-pickup-to-handoff limit. The remaining 150 kg of estimated produce has no allocation and needs grower confirmation.
WHAT IS USUALLY DONE
A dispatcher assembles pickup routes from grower calls and old spreadsheets. Estimated harvest can be mistaken for committed supply, and a route may exceed the truck’s payload or miss a buyer’s receiving window.
WHAT SOVRUN CAN DO FOR YOU
Sovrun would build a harvest-planning workspace that separates grower forecasts, agreed pickups, and confirmed buyer orders. It compares collection plans against usable truck capacity, supplied journey and loading times, delivery windows, and crop-handling rules. Dispatchers confirm each plan before committing a vehicle.
Make the receiving window.
Keep the loading time.
The route starts at 07:30 and includes a supplied 30-minute journey before each stop, three 15-minute grower loading periods, and a final 30-minute journey to the buyer. Arrival is 10:15; a 15-minute unload completes handoff at 10:30.
Depart
Vehicle ready
Grower G1
Load until 08:15
Grower G2
Load until 09:00
Grower G3
Load until 09:45
Buyer
Handoff by 10:30
Buyer receiving is 10:00–11:00, so the planned arrival and handoff fit. First pickup to handoff is 150 minutes, within the supplied four-hour handling limit. Dispatch still needs to confirm crop readiness, traffic allowance, vehicle condition, and any temperature requirements.
A collection sheet
that accounts for the whole load.
The project turns changing supply estimates into a reviewable plan with quantities, timing, and unallocated produce clearly separated.
- Planned load
- 1,100 kg
- Capacity left
- 100 kg
- Buyer order
- 1,100 kg
Arrive at 10:15.
- Buyer receiving
- 10:00–11:00
- Unloading
- 10:15–10:30
- First pickup to handoff
- 150 minutes
- Handling limit
- 240 minutes
150 kg still unallocated.
- G1 estimate remaining
- 50 kg
- G2 estimate remaining
- 50 kg
- G3 estimate remaining
- 50 kg
- Next step
- Confirm supply + demand
How we’d make it happen.
Separate estimates from commitments
Bring grower messages and orders into one dated plan. Show forecast volume separately from confirmed pickups and buyer demand.
Compare feasible collection routes
Apply usable payload, journey, loading, receiving, and handling constraints. Leave unallocated produce visible.
Confirm the dispatch sheet
Growers and dispatchers review quantities and timing, then approve the plan and monitor changes before departure.
Where AI helps
Forecasting models estimate likely harvest volumes from supplied grower history and conditions. Language models extract proposed availability from messages. Route calculations apply explicit capacity and time constraints; forecast uncertainty remains visible rather than becoming a guaranteed collection.
What people approve
Growers confirm available quantities and readiness. Dispatchers check vehicle capacity, loading time, traffic allowances, temperature requirements, and buyer acceptance before approving the route. The tool does not book transport or promise deliveries automatically.
What we’d need to start
- Grower estimates, past harvest records, and confirmed available quantities
- Buyer orders, receiving windows, and crop shelf-life and handling rules
- Vehicle payload, journey times, loading durations, and dispatch constraints
How we’d test it
Test forecasts above payload, late readiness, uncertain volumes, missing travel times, and conflicting buyer windows. Recompute cumulative load and arrival times. A feasible illustrative plan is not a live dispatch commitment or measured reduction in spoilage.
Prepared for Agriculture & food systems. We would agree on the work after reviewing your brief, materials, and requirements.
This is a proposed project, not completed client work. The visuals and numbers show example outputs, not measured results.
