Global superfruit producer cuts harvest planning time from days to minutes
A leading grower uses SWARM to optimize labor and transportation for up to 15,000 field workers in Latin America, turning a complex weekly planning process into a fast, repeatable workflow.
CUSTOMER
About the customer
This customer is a global, vertically integrated grower, packer, shipper, and marketer of superfruits. They operate across multiple regions, including Peru, Mexico, Morocco, and the USA, supplying premium blueberries, avocados, asparagus, and table grapes to customers year round from their strategically located growing regions.
INDUSTRY
Agrifood
FOCUS
Fresh superfruits
REGION
Peru, Mexico, Morocco, and the USA
USE CASES
Workforce planning, transportation optimization
CHALLENGE
Coordinating thousands of workers and pickup points
During peak harvest season, the customer relies on up to 15,000 workers in Peru to harvest blueberries. Each week, the planning team has to decide:
Which workers to hire and where to deploy them, based on prior performance, forecasted yield, and demand
How to move those workers from thousands of pickup points to fields using a mix of SUVs, minibuses, and large coaches
The labor plan and the transportation plan are tightly linked. A change in one affects the other. Before SWARM, building a weekly plan took days of manual work across spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
SOLUTION
AI powered optimization for labor and transportation
The customer uses the SWARM platform to create weekly labor and transportation plans in a single workflow.
1. Ingest data
SWARM connects to data on worker performance, labor availability, forecasted yield, customer demand, and transport capacity.
2. Build the labor plan
The platform recommends which workers to hire and where to assign them each week, taking into account prior performance and expected field needs.
3. Optimize transportation
SWARM then builds a transportation plan that moves workers from thousands of pickup points to field locations using different vehicle types, while minimizing transportation cost and meeting timing constraints.
4. Support weekly decisions
Planners review, adjust, and approve the plan inside SWARM. The optimizations run every week so the team can respond quickly to changes in yield, labor availability, or demand
POWERED BY SWARM ENGINE
SWARM ENGINE is our agentic AI optimization platform that solves complex operational problems such as labor planning, logistics, and allocation.
IMPACT
From days of planning to decisions in minutes
With SWARM in production, the customer now:
Generates weekly labor and transportation plans in minutes instead of days
Runs two optimizations in production for labor and transport planning
Is piloting AVA Enterprise to extend AI support into more day to day operational decisions
Has renewed its SWARM engagement for a second year as part of a broader innovation program
Global superfruit producer cuts harvest planning time from days to minutes
A leading grower uses SWARM to optimize labor and transportation for up to 15,000 field workers in Latin America, turning a complex weekly planning process into a fast, repeatable workflow.
About the customer
This customer is a global, vertically integrated grower, packer, shipper, and marketer of superfruits. They operate across multiple regions, including Latin America and North America, and supply premium blueberries, avocados, asparagus, and table grapes to customers year round from their strategically located growing regions.
Coordinating thousands of workers and pickup points
During peak harvest season, the customer relies on up to 15,000 workers in Latin America to harvest blueberries. Each week, the planning team has to decide:
- Which workers to hire and where to deploy them, based on prior performance, forecasted yield, and demand
- How to move those workers from thousands of pickup points to fields using a mix of SUVs, minibuses, and large coaches
The labor plan and the transportation plan are tightly linked. A change in one affects the other. Before SWARM, building a weekly plan took days of manual work across spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
Planning flow
The customer needed a way to link demand, labor, and transport decisions so that weekly plans are feasible, cost aware, and fast to update.
AI powered optimization for labor and transportation
The customer uses the SWARM platform to create weekly labor and transportation plans in a single workflow.
1. Ingest data
SWARM connects to data on worker performance, labor availability, forecasted yield, customer demand, and transport capacity.
2. Build the labor plan
The platform recommends which workers to hire and where to assign them each week, taking into account prior performance and expected field needs.
3. Optimize transportation
SWARM then builds a transportation plan that moves workers from thousands of pickup points to field locations using different vehicle types, while minimizing transportation cost and meeting timing constraints.
4. Support weekly decisions
Planners review, adjust, and approve the plan inside SWARM. The optimizations run every week so the team can respond quickly to changes in yield, labor availability, or demand.
SWARM ENGINE is our agentic AI optimization platform that solves complex operational problems such as labor planning, logistics, and allocation.
From days of planning to decisions in minutes
With SWARM in production, the customer now:
- Generates weekly labor and transportation plans in minutes instead of days
- Runs two optimizations in production for labor and transport planning
- Is piloting AVA Enterprise to extend AI support into more day to day operational decisions
- Has renewed its SWARM engagement for a second year as part of a broader innovation program
Why this customer chose SWARM
Operations first approach
SWARM starts from the operational challenge and works back to the data and algorithms, not the other way around.
Fast time to value
The first optimizations went into production quickly and are now part of weekly decision making.
Built for complex agrifood operations
The platform handles real world constraints like worker performance, pickup locations, vehicle types, and cost trade offs.
See what SWARM can do for your operations
Talk with our team about your own labor, transportation, or supply chain planning challenges, and explore how SWARM can help.