Coffee quality, calculated.
Not estimated.
The yield factor is calculated as 17,500 ÷ grams of sound bean in a 250 g milling sample: the kilos of dry parchment needed to produce one 70 kg bag of excelso. At quality analysis, BeanFlux records the lot’s final factor and applies the price adjustment the way your trading company handles it, in COP/kg on the same lot record.
Without a system, quality gets lost between intake and sale
The yield factor determines how much you pay and how much you earn. Mishandling it is no minor error.
The factor is calculated with printed tables that aren’t always up to date.
A one-point error in the factor changes the price of the entire purchase, and no one catches it until settlement.
Wet and dry parchment coffee get mixed into the same record.
At settlement, the real cost by quality gets diluted because the record doesn’t distinguish what was received or in what state.
The defect analysis lives in a notebook, separate from the lot.
There’s no traceability between the recorded quality and the lot shipped out weeks later.
The price adjustment gets done by hand, lot after lot.
Turning the final factor into pesos, with whatever rule your trading company uses, is a quick sum repeated on every purchase. Quick does not mean it never goes wrong.
From factor to final price, in five steps
The quality data is entered once and stays tied to the lot forever. You decide how much the system automates and where every figure comes from.
The contract sets the target factor
Each product enters with its target factor per the contract, 94.0, for example. It’s the reference the lot is evaluated against.
The yield factor is entered
The operator records the lot’s final factor, say 90, against the contract base. With yield factor lower is better: a lot below the base yields more excelso per carga.
The final factor adjusts the price
Every trading company rewards or penalises the factor its own way, and BeanFlux imposes none of them. Configure the adjustment the way your operation handles it, as a percentage or in pesos, and the system applies it over the base price, anchored to the day’s price or the contract’s.
Physical analysis against your limits
Moisture, low-grade beans, borer damage, hulled beans and whatever defects your trading company measures. If a lot falls out of spec, you know before approving the price, not once you’ve already paid or the buyer sends it back.
Mark as evaluated
On approval, the price is recorded, the lot moves into inventory with its factor, and the supplier’s balance updates. All traced with user and time.
Traceable quality from the scale to the contract
BeanFlux records each lot’s quality attributes at quality analysis and carries them automatically throughout the entire operation.
You define the price adjustment
No two trading companies reward the factor the same way. Configure the adjustment the way your operation handles it, by point or by range, as a percentage or in pesos per kilo. The system ships with no formula preset.
Automatic or optional adjustment
Let the system apply your adjustment when the factor is recorded, or leave it to the operator at QC time. Both approaches coexist.
Price anchored to the day or the contract
The base price can be anchored to the day’s market price or the contract’s. The operator sees where every figure comes from, and on evaluation the price is recorded.
Configurable defect limits
Moisture, low-grade beans, borer damage, hulled beans and whatever defects your trading company measures: each with its limit. The system flags when a lot exceeds one, before approval.
See how your factor turns into price
We’ll show you how BeanFlux records quality, applies your price adjustment and locks the purchase price in a 20-minute demo.
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