About Us

At Iowa Valley RC&D, we are committed to make our food system stronger through diversification, collaboration, and education. We work to build networks, create resources, facilitate effective connections, and address gaps in the existing services for the food system. To further our support in developing robust food systems, Jason Grimm and Anuj Mittal at Iowa Valley RC&D started the supply chain consulting division to provide low cost technology solutions for food hubs and farms operations based on their individual operational needs. Browse through some of the example tools we have developed for our clients in the below demo videos and reach out to us if you have any questions or ideas to share!

List of Services

Process Automation

Save time through generating reports from raw data with a click, that allows you to view the information as you desire

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Labeling Solutions

Generate customizable labels through automated process to significantly save your precious man hours for other important works

Data analysis

Improve your supply-demand management efficiency by having us analyze your historical sales and inventory data

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Pricing and Invoicing

Integrate pricing and invoicing with inventory tracking to eliminate the need to keep frequent checks of your farm inventory

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Operations Mapping

Increase efficiency of your operations through value stream mapping and design processes to maximize efficiency

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Inventory Management System

Get an immediate boost to your upcoming food hub or farm operations through customizable inventory management systems

Sample Tools

Customized Labeling Solutions

Posted by Supply Chain Technology Consulting – Iowa Valley RC&D on Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Inventory Tracking & Invoicing Solutions

Posted by Supply Chain Technology Consulting – Iowa Valley RC&D on Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Mobile App to Track Inventory

Posted by Supply Chain Technology Consulting – Iowa Valley RC&D on Wednesday, September 26, 2018

What Our Clients Say About Us!

“We had a template in Microsoft Word into which we typed all the labels. We did not fill in farmers’ code – they were themselves responsible for adding their code to the labels after we printed them. Having the Excel labeling template created by Iowa Valley RC&D team makes it easy to scale to many producers, without having to spend exponentially more time making labels.Viva Farms staff will spend a lot less time generating labels and farmers will not have to fill in their own code. This will save them a lot of time, especially farmers who have 100+ items on a given delivery – it takes a lot of time to fill in the code for 100 labels.”

Anna Chotzen

Business & Marketing Manager, Viva Farms

“Sprout operates a grocery, a hub and large box program and haven’t been able to find a single tech system for all of these activities combined. I approached Iowa Valley RC&D for simple tech solutions for our food hub that could help streamline customer and inventory needs. The tech solutions that were designed by Iowa Valley RC&D team are the much needed link for Sprout to operate more effectively, creating inventory control and customer support systems to save us time and money.”

Brennan Dougherty

Food Hub Manager, Sprouts BC

“It was wonderful working with Iowa Valley RC&D team. We have exactly the right program for what we need. Anuj was so understanding and helped through every issue we had. He was very quick with any adjustments in the program and if I needed any help, he responded extremely fast. The inventory and labeling section of our food safety was one major area that we were stuck on for some time. I’m so thankful and grateful to have been introduced to Anuj at Iowa Valley. This program has helped our farm tremendously with reaching our food safety goals.”

Andrea Kirchoff

Owner, Campells Local Harvest

“Working with Iowa Valley RC&D was a great experience. I worked with Anuj Mittal, a doctoral student consultant for Iowa Valley. He created two Excel-based tools for small farmers to track inventory, generate invoices, and create unique labels. Anuj was extremely responsive to my recommendations and feedback, and the final product was far above my expectations.”

Jennifer Gerhart

Local Food Coordinator, Michigan State Extension

 

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Contact Us

Jason Grimm
Email: jason@ivrcd.org
Phone: 319-622-3264

Anuj Mittal
Email: anuj@ivrcd.org
Phone: 515-708-3430