Spring Hill Nursery

Spring Hill Nursery is a high-volume mail order fulfillment facility that required a labeling system to suit their unique environmental requirements (greenhouses, storage freezers, and potting applications). Evanhoe & Associates provided a packaging machine re-build, customizing Automatic Identification Technology (AIT) hardware and consumables to Spring Hill Nursery’s needs. The result was a complete, automated labeling, packaging, and shipping system that employed the most cutting-edge technology to speed Spring Hill Nursery’s shipping process, enabling them to meet their high-volume demand requirements.

To deploy Spring Hill’s custom solution, Evanhoe & Associates performed integration across various Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) and legacy inventory control systems, as well as with the current Windows-based platforms that are used in managing the enterprise. Evanhoe & Associates developers integrated some COTS solutions with further legacy software development on Windows and .Net platforms using Cobol, Basic, and C#. Databases such as MS Access and SLICE were used for the shipping and labeling data. One of the more complex aspects of the development process was performing CNC machine programming on Allen-Bradley controllers in order to facilitate the integration of packaging machines into the enterprise. The final solution allowed Spring Hill Nurseries to not only meet their requirements, but to thrive and grow in this very competitive market segment.