Maximum flexibility and ease of use make this application extremely versatile.  This application provides for shrinkage tracking, producer history information including milk component analysis, and multiple payment methods with versatile premiums.

Producer Payroll uses farm pick-up data to prepare and print producer payroll checks.  This system provides the flexibility to incorporate several different hauling deduction methods, credit agency assignments, any necessary payroll deductions, payment pricing methods, volume incentives, quality incentives, base plans, and protein incentives. Producer Payroll can also prepare payments/checks for vendors, banks, and haulers as defined by the user.

Features Include:

• Forward Contracting
  • Window
  • Future
  • Minimum Price
• Secure website access for producer history and test retrieval by producer and field representatives
• Lab Collection data electronically matched to appropriate load record
• Lab results can be keyed manually or electronically
• Load variance reports for volume or component analysis
• Load balance and farm production reports
• Pooling reports by:  federal order, plant, division, grade, non-pooled, in-transit
• Inquiry of producer information by month, calendar year-to-date, fiscal year-to-date, and life-to-date
• Pricing by fat and differential, component, cheese yield, and California pricing
• Equipment Loan processing and tracking
• Multiple payment frequencies provide for daily, weekly, semi-monthly, and monthly
• Quality and volume premium tables by payment method
• Hot load and dump milk processing
• Ability to maintain market associations per producer or by division
• Distribution for up to 99 partners on a percent, fixed dollar, or fixed pounds
• Global assignments, deductions, and compensation feature to minimize producer setup
• Ability to assign service fees to deductions
• Unlimited assignment and contract deductions
• Hauling rate ranges for pounds by grade, route, or zone
• Generates checks for producers, vendors, and haulers
• Direct Deposit for producer, hauler, and vendor
• Extensive pay period and monthly reporting
• Shrinkage reporting by hauler and date
• Milk Market Reporting
• Federal and State Order reporting (electronic)
• Electronic transfer of funds 
• Complete check reconciliation

Producer/Hauler Payroll:

This add-on module provides the capability to supply additional payments to existing Producers or Haulers:

• Pay based on current or historical information
• Payments may be based on:
  • flat dollar
  • price per CWT
  • total dollars to be distributed
  • percent of gross
• Pay all or selected producers/haulers
• Manual override of calculated pay

Hauler Payment

• Hauler/destination subsidies
• fuel adjustments
• volume adjustments
• wait time

Bar Code can be used in many areas of a dairy plant.  Data Specialists, Inc. offers bar code labels for producer milk samples to identify to our Lab Collection application who the sample is for.  This label is scanned and electronically passed to our lab software and matched with the test machine's analysis.

Features Include:

• Bar code label is accurate and is a major time saving feature
• Bar code label automatically triggers new label print when producer needs replenishment of supply
• Reduces chance of error by route driver and lab technicians