Software for meat processors.
Mule builds scheduling and order-tracking software for meat processors and lockers: kill-date booking, carcass and cut-order data tied to the animal, and a customer portal for pickup status. Software first; we also build the booking-focused website processors need.
What we know about meat processors.
A small processor or locker runs on a kill-date calendar that fills up months in advance, and a cut-order sheet for every customer's animal specifying exactly how it should come back. A lot of that still lives on a paper calendar and a filing cabinet of order sheets, and the handoff that matters most, matching a hanging carcass back to the right customer's cut instructions, depends on someone writing the right tag or ticket number by hand at every step.
When that handwritten link breaks, the cost isn't abstract: it's a customer's order coming back wrong, or a call asking where their animal is in the process that nobody at the counter can answer without walking back to check.
Why a meat processor picks Mule.
- 01Kill-date booking that shows real availability, instead of a paper calendar only one person can read accurately.
- 02Carcass and cut-order data tied to the animal from drop-off through to pickup, not a ticket number that has to be matched by hand.
- 03A customer portal for order status and pickup, so a phone call isn't the only way to check.
- 04A booking-focused website, since most of a processor's new business starts with someone searching to see if you have room.
What meat processors usually need.
From meat processors.
Does the kill-floor side need signal to work?
The kill-floor and cut-tracking app is built to run offline, entries at the floor save locally and sync once the connection is back, so a dead spot in the plant doesn't stop the record.
Can you tie carcass weights into the system?
If your scale can export its data, by file, serial connection or Bluetooth, we build the system to pull weights in directly and tie them to the customer's order, instead of a number written on a tag.
Our booking calendar and order sheets are all on paper. Can you bring that history in?
Where there's something to bring in, past bookings and standing customer cut preferences, we import it as part of the build. Going forward, the system replaces the paper calendar rather than duplicating it.
Who owns the customer and order data?
You do. It's your plant's data, your bookings, your customers' cut preferences and order history. We build the system around your operation and you keep the data.
We need people to be able to find us and see if we have kill dates open. Is that part of this?
Yes, a booking-focused website is a natural pairing with the scheduling system, and it's something we build, a smaller, separate line from the plant software itself.