¶ TEIKEI Fruit Information Flow
The information flow in TEIKEI Fruit describes how demand, quantities, availability, quality, schedules, and feedback are coordinated between all stages.
This page describes only the information flow.
The other flows are described on separate subpages:
¶ Classification
The information flow connects the stages of the goods flow and money flow.
It ensures that harvesting, sorting, cooling, packaging, bundling, transport, pickup, and regional distribution can be coordinated.
Fruit is a fresh and delicate food.
Therefore, information on harvest timing, ripeness, quality, cooling, delivery windows, and pickup is particularly important.
Without information flow, there is no reliable goods flow.
¶ What is Coordinated
The information flow includes:
- Member demand
- Harvest shares
- Available quantities
- Harvest timing
- Ripeness
- Quality
- Sorting
- Cooling
- Packaging
- Crates and containers
- Inventory levels
- Delivery dates
- Pallet deliveries
- Pickup information
- Regional distribution
- Feedback from communities
- Quality reports
- Planning for upcoming harvests
¶ Information Flow Overview
From Planning to Packaging
From Bundling to Feedback
How to Read the Diagrams: The two diagrams form a cycle. The first ends at 7 Packaging / Crates, and the second continues with 8 Collection Warehouse / Bundling. Feedback and responses (14) come from members at pickup, but also directly from the main community / pickup location and from sub-communities. They flow back into the Agora Marketplace (3) and thus into the next planning phase.
¶ Role of the Agora Marketplace
The Agora Marketplace consolidates information for operational supply.
It connects:
- Demand
- Harvest shares
- Quantities
- Availability
- Payments
- Delivery routes
- Pickup locations
- Communities
- Feedback
This makes it visible what is needed, what is available, and how supply can be organized.
The Agora itself is not the operational goods flow.
The information flow for concrete supply runs through the Agora Marketplaces and the participating supply circles.
¶ Information from Farms
From farms and producers comes information on:
- Expected harvest quantities
- Harvest timing
- Ripeness
- Quality
- Varieties
- Availability
- Possible crop failures
- Special seasonal conditions
This information forms the basis for planning, quantity clarification, and communication with communities.
¶ Information from Logistics
From sorting, cooling, packaging, collection warehouses, distribution warehouses, and transport comes information on:
- Sorted quantities
- Quality status
- Cooling requirements
- Crates and containers
- Inventory levels
- Delivery windows
- Pallet deliveries
- Handover points
- Deviations or delays
This information helps to move goods reliably and keep handovers traceable.
¶ Information from Communities
From main communities, pickup locations, and sub-communities comes information on:
- Demand
- Pickup quantities
- Pickup times
- Number of harvest shares
- Regional distribution
- Feedback on quality
- Feedback on quantity
- Feedback on packaging
- Demand for upcoming deliveries
This feedback flows into further planning.
¶ Local First and Information Flow
The information flow also helps to practically implement the Local First principle.
For this, it must be visible:
- Which fruits are regionally available
- When regional fruits become seasonally available
- What quantities can be supported locally
- Whether a delivery would strengthen or displace regional agriculture
TEIKEI Fruit does not support practices where fresh produce is brought into a region even though comparable fruits are seasonally available there or will be available soon.
The information flow thus also protects regional agricultural structures.
The more detailed access logic is described on the page Access Logic and Local First.
¶ Feedback
Feedback is part of the information flow.
It comes from members, pickup locations, sub-communities, main communities, and logistics partners.
It concerns, for example:
- Quality
- Ripeness
- Delivery timing
- Quantity
- Packaging
- Cooling
- Pickup
- Regional distribution
- Demand for upcoming deliveries
This feedback helps improve the next planning phase.
¶ Relationship to Goods Flow and Money Flow
The goods flow moves the fruit.
The money flow covers the basic costs.
The information flow connects both.
It shows what information is needed so that products, payments, responsibility, and pickup come together.
¶ Not Part of the Information Flow
The following are not part of the TEIKEI Fruit information flow:
- Planning for:
- Air transport
- Air freight
- Intercontinental fresh logistics
- Doorstep delivery as a standard process
- Parcel delivery as a standard process
- Fresh produce that displaces regional seasonal fruits
Such methods do not align with the goals of TEIKEI Fruit.
¶ Summary
The information flow in TEIKEI Fruit makes planning, coordination, and feedback visible.
It connects farms, harvest, sorting, cooling, packaging, logistics, communities, and members.
This creates transparency about what is needed, what is possible, and how supply can be collectively supported.
One level up: TEIKEI Fruit
Author: Felix Schröder, with assistance from AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-05-15 · Last updated: 2026-05-15 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us