How to Automate Silo

One inbound lot leaves the plant as forty

Silo is a cloud ERP built for the produce industry, run out of Fresno and sold to shippers, distributors, packers and growers. In November 2025 it acquired Pet Tiger, a labor and field-cost business, and the two now sit on one platform.

The companies on it handle food that is already losing value. A fresh-cut operation makes that harder again, because it does not only move a commodity, it converts one. A bin of romaine arrives as a single lot from a single ranch and leaves as bagged salad in forty cases, under a new lot code, with a pack date and a shelf life the customer will hold you to.

So the record has to carry the whole chain. What came in, what it became, what went where, at what temperature, at what cost, and what the crew on the line was paid to do it.

Half the record of a load was made by somebody else

The parts a plant controls get recorded properly. The parts it does not are somebody's afternoon.

The temperature on an inbound load is on a logger, and the reading lives on the logger vendor's website. A micro test on a finished lot sits on the laboratory's own portal, and until it clears, the pallets stay where they are. A retailer grades you on fill rate and on-time delivery in a supplier portal you can see but never download. A grower's site says what actually packed out against the contract, which is never quite the contract.

Then the money. A new buyer's credit is checked on a trade service. A short shipment has to be queried on the customer's portal inside a window nobody wrote down. Receivables age under trust rules that reward whoever noticed first.

Traceability covers what your own plant recorded

Silo covers a great deal of that, and a plant should exhaust it before adding anything.

Diversified ERP is the operational core: financials, inventory, warehouse, and the grower and settlement side a packer or shipper cannot run without. EDI and Traceability handle the exchange with trading partners and the compliance work behind it, and the product is positioned explicitly around FSMA 204 readiness. Payments and Financial Ops covers receivables, payables, collections and reconciliation, which in produce is not back office work, it is cash flow. Labor and Asset Management, the Pet Tiger side, tracks crews and equipment cost by job, field, block, line or location. Analytics and Intelligence reports across the whole of it: inventory, margin, labor, cash.

The boundary is the one every ERP has. Traceability is complete for what your own plant scanned, weighed and recorded, and for what a trading partner agreed to send over EDI. The laboratory, the logger vendor, the grower's site and the retailer's scorecard are all outside that agreement, and each holds a fact a lot cannot be released or invoiced without.

A temperature excursion can be a hold rather than a claim

At six in the morning those facts are already posted on pages that open with a password. The reading is the only step nobody has taken.

The logger vendor's reading for an inbound load pulled and set against the lot Silo recorded on receipt, so an excursion on a load of romaine becomes a hold at seven rather than a claim three weeks later. Laboratory results read on the lab's own portal against every lot sitting on hold, so nothing waits an extra day because nobody refreshed a page. A retailer's supplier scorecard read each week, so a fill rate slipping is a conversation you start rather than one you are summoned to.

Then the ones that quietly cost money. A grower's portal checked for what packed out against the contract before the settlement is cut. Certificates that expire without announcement: the food safety audit, the organic certificate, a carrier's insurance, a customer's continuing guarantee. A buyer's credit standing on the trade service before the load goes on the truck rather than after. Crew hours and piece counts set against the yield the line actually produced that shift.

Food safety is a decision, the lookup is not

Deciding whether a lot ships is a call somebody in QA makes and puts their name to. Finding out whether the lab has posted the result is not, and it is the part that adds a day.

WebRun is an AI agent that works a real Chrome browser, signed in as you. It opens Silo the way your plant does, opens the laboratory portal, the logger vendor or the retailer's scorecard beside it, and returns one list with the lot codes and load numbers already attached.

It runs on your schedule in your own private environment, and you can watch a run and stop it. Anything that releases a lot, reaches a customer or commits money is prepared and left for a person.

Each workflow below names the sites it opens.