YES WE CAN!

This month we have met our Packing department and have asked the staff a few questions about their job.

Name:

Gaetano (G from now on)

Paola (P from now on)

Federica (F from now on)

Giovanni (Giò from now on)

What is your role in the company?

1.G.   Packaging/shipping/professional seeds department manager

2.P.   Specilized worker selecting and packing professional and precision seeds

3.F.  Specilized worker selecting and packing professional and precision seeds 3

4.Giò.  Warehouse keeper

How long have you been working in Sais?

1.G.   I have been working in SAIS for 10 years

2.P.   I have been working in SAIS for 28 years

3.F.  I have been working in SAIS for 1 year

4.Giò. I have been working in SAIS for 7 years

Which are the aspects of your job that you like most?

1.G.  Definitely the organization of the work so that everything runs smoothly, teaming up with the people who work with me. Fortunately for me, we have a team in this department that is always ready to give their best, and that makes me very proud.

2.P.  I like carrying on the selection process from unclean raw seed  to packed professional seeds achieving excellent quality standards.

3.F.  The precision and care we put into packing the professional seeds

4.Giò. The dynamism of my work

What are the most difficult challenges you face in your job?

1.G.  The most difficult challenge is probably to meet the delivery timelines, especially for some orders for Non-Eu countries, with numerous difficulties related to the required standards and certificates. My task is to avoid those snags that are likely to make the timeline longer.

We always try to do our best to meet our the customers expectations.

2.P.   Processing seed to ensure the highest quality in purity and germinability

3.F.  Being here recently, my biggest challenge is to learn everything as much quickly as possible so that I can enhance my contribution to our team

4.Giò.  My challeng is being always careful when preparing orders so as to minimize errors.

Seeds are very different from each other. What particular attentions do aromatic seeds, flower seed or pills for example, require?

1.G.   These are all types of seeds that we handly with the utmost attention.

We keep them stored in temperature and humidity controlled cells and they are tested periodically. As for me, my attention goes to the timing of packaging and shipping.

2.P. & F.   In case of the aromatic seeds,  we pay the utmost attention to weeds.

Pills are very delicate, therefore we have to be very gentle in handling them.

4.Giò.  All our seeds require  our utmost attention to packaging especially the pills in order to prevent them from breaking.

What advice would you give our customers in choosing packaging for their seeds?

1.G.   I would recommend first and foremost Sais Professional Seeds, behind which there is a massive research and selection work for improving yields and quality standards.

On the other hand, I recommend our customer to choose doypacks as packaging solution for our seeds as  they have an aluminum film inside that shields the seeds from external agents, they are resealable and also take up less volume than cans or cardboard boxes.

2.P. F.   Definitely we recommend the packs of the “Professional” range  as we put a lot of effort into achieving very high standards for the seeds of this range.

How do you organize the stowage of batches in the warehouse? In what order do you arrange the seeds on the shelf?

1.G.  Professional seed storage takes place in temperature- and humidity-controlled cells.

Pre-packed seeds are stowed by variety, following a numerical order according to our variety codes, so as to facilitate picking operations and minimize the possibility of mistakes.