Low inventory notification based on realtime roasting data! Managing green coffee inventory is as much art as it’s science. Maintaining the right balance of inventory to satisfy your production needs without taking up precious roastery space or putting excessive pressure on finances, can be a juggling act. At RoastLog we’re Read more…
Producer/Farmer & Contract details all under one roof! Green coffee purchasing decisions can be complicated; and in many respects, it’s what sets apart the best cafes and roasteries. Now it’s possible to collect and organize all the details related to your coffees in one place. In addition to details about Read more…
From day one, RoastLogger, our client application used for recording roast profiles, has had a “Roast Queue”. The idea behind it is pretty simple. When you start your roasting day, you know what you’re going to be roasting and, roughly, in what order. The Roast Queue provides a visual record and Read more…
Things have been heating up over here at RoastLog. Working with customers is always one of the best parts of our jobs, and we’ve been cranking out some great new features based on user feedback. Today, I wanted to highlight one of those. You know you roast coffee, and you Read more…
Right now the guys and I are sitting in downtown Portland getting in some last minute work (online cupping forms anyone? http://cuppinglog.com, plus we’re launching a new homepage!). This is the third year in a row that we’ll have a booth at the SCAA show. The entire weekend is exhausting, Read more…
So… what about post-roast blending? We get asked about that often. The current version of the RoastLog Green Inventory System stops keeping track of things as soon as they go into the roaster, yet one of the benefits of the Green Inventory System is tracking exactly how you are using Read more…
This update is a bit late to all of our existing customers. We’ve been plugging away diligently here at RoastLog on a few new (and major) things, but have also made some updates to our existing software. Here is the latest and greatest: RoastLogger The current version is now 0.9.8, Read more…
One thing that our system doesn’t do very well, or at all, is deal with blends. Your inventory consists of “beans” which you can name as you wish and have a country of origin. In the case of a blend, right now we simply give you the liberty to name Read more…
It’s hard for me to believe that Thanksgiving is less than a week away. I spent three weeks last month vacationing in Spain and the few weeks since then catching up with all the work that piled up while I was gone. Now it’s November, the eve of the busiest Read more…
Designing data visualizations is a real art. Taking a set of data, be in numerical or not, and turning it into something which people can look at and immediately understand or get a grasp of is no easy task. This Venn Diagram of The Muppets is simple, obvious and provide Read more…