¶ TEIKEI Fruit Financial Flow
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The financial flow in TEIKEI Fruit describes how harvest shares and basic cost contributions support the supply of fruit.
This page describes only the financial flow.
Additional flows are described on separate subpages:
¶ Context
The financial flow begins with members, households, and communities.
From there, it progressively supports the people, places, and work steps that enable the goods flow.
In TEIKEI Fruit, this primarily includes:
- Orchard / farm
- Harvest
- Packing house
- Sorting
- Cooling
- Packaging
- International logistics with refrigerated trucks
- Distribution warehouse
- Regional consolidation
- Pallet delivery
- Communities and pickup locations
The financial flow is not a retrospective payment for individual products.
It is part of the collectively supported supply system.
¶ Financial Flow from Top to Bottom
¶ What Is Supported
The financial flow supports:
- Producers and orchards
- Maintenance, cultivation, and harvest foundation
- Harvest team
- Sorting
- Cooling
- Packaging
- Crates and containers
- Packing house
- Consolidation and loading
- International refrigerated transport
- Distribution warehouse
- Regional consolidation
- Pallet delivery
- Main communities
- Sub-communities
- Pickup locations
- Coordination and communication within the supply circle
¶ Packing House as a Consolidated Station
In TEIKEI Fruit, sorting, cooling, packaging, and consolidation currently take place in a centralized packing house.
The packing house is therefore not a mere intermediate stop.
It is an important location in the financial flow because multiple essential work steps converge there:
- Acceptance of harvested fruit
- Sorting
- Cooling
- Quality inspection
- Packaging in crates
- Consolidation
- Preparation for loading
This work must remain visible in the financial flow.
¶ Logistics and Transport
The financial flow also supports the logistical segments.
These include:
- International transport with refrigerated 40-ton trucks
- Distribution warehouse or regional consolidation
- National pallet delivery with 7.5-ton trucks
- Handover to main communities or pickup locations
- Possible regional distribution to sub-communities
The confirmed standard route is pallet delivery.
¶ Regional Consolidation
Regional consolidation is part of the financial flow logic when it handles work, coordination, or handovers within a specific supply circle.
It can help efficiently combine smaller quantities, different locations, and multiple communities.
This is not just about transport.
It also involves:
- Quantity coordination
- Pickup locations
- Delivery windows
- Handovers
- Regional distribution
- Local responsibility
- Communication with members
¶ Planned Development for Micro-Communities
Suitable logistical solutions are to be reviewed and developed for micro-communities and remote locations.
These solutions should enable smaller groups to access fruit without needing to reach very large quantities first.
Until these processes are practically confirmed, they are not represented as part of the existing financial flow.
They remain a field for development.
¶ What Is Not Part of the Financial Flow
The following are not part of the TEIKEI Fruit financial flow:
- Air transport
- Air freight
- Intercontinental fresh logistics
- Doorstep delivery as a standard process
- Parcel delivery as a standard process
- Fresh products from distant global supply chains
TEIKEI Fruit does not support logistics that displace regional seasonal fruit.
Fresh products are handled according to the Local First principle.
¶ Relationship to Goods Flow
The goods flow transports fruit from the orchard to communities and members.
The financial flow covers the basic costs that make this route possible.
This means:
Harvest shares and basic cost contributions do not only cover the fruit itself.
They also support the people, places, infrastructure, logistics, and responsibility required to ensure the fruit arrives reliably.
¶ Relationship to Information Flow
The information flow makes visible the available quantities, existing needs, applicable deadlines, and feedback generated.
The financial flow can only be meaningfully structured if this information is available.
In TEIKEI Fruit, the financial flow, goods flow, and information flow are therefore closely linked but remain clearly distinct.
¶ Summary
TEIKEI Fruit is supported by harvest shares, basic cost contributions, and collective responsibility.
The financial flow begins with members, households, and communities.
Through the Agora Marketplace, the involved people, places, and work steps are supported.
These include producers, harvest, packing house, cooling, packaging, transport, distribution warehouse, regional consolidation, and communities.
The financial flow makes visible that the entire supply system is collectively supported.
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By Felix Schröder, with AI support (ChatGPT)
Created on May 15, 2026 · Last updated on May 15, 2026
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