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Agribusiness management is a complex topic that encompasses everything from crop planning to product distribution in the market. And we’re talking about one of the largest and most important sectors in countries like Brazil.
The south american nation is internationally acknowledged as one of the largest producers and exporters of agricultural inputs. In fact, this sector is a driving force and has a strong influence on the country’s balance of trade.
Given this scenario of importance, it is understandable that companies seek alternatives to increase their processes’ efficiency and profitability.
Optimizing management in any agribusiness is essential to face the challenges of the sector, ensure the proper use of natural resources, and mantain regulatory compliance.
To keep up with this growing trend, technology is becoming increasingly advanced, providing significant gains in performance and sustainable development.
Let’s find out more about 5 processes that optimize management in agribusiness.
The evolution and challenges of agribusiness management
Agribusiness comprises activities related to the production, processing, distribution, and marketing of agricultural products, livestock, fishing, forestry, and all links in its production chain.
The agricultural sector is quite complex and mutable. Effective management is decisive for better control and ultimately success of the business.
Over the years, the agribusiness’ history has been marked by technological advances, practices changes, global markets development, and a constant search for more sustainable production.
This began with the Agricultural Revolution, through industrialization, global expansion, Green Revolution, Globalization, sustainability, and environmental awareness, reaching the implementation of technology in agribusiness management.
Sector transformations are often driven by challenges and adaptations to changes in such a dynamic environment as the one we live in. This combination has led us to the current era, Agriculture 4.0.
This new phase is characterized by hyper-connectivity. That is, the use of a set of integrated and connected digital technologies on the fields.
Adopting these tools improves the entire agribusiness system, from planning, to harvesting, to delivery.
In this sense, adopting these technologies allows addressing challenges in agribusiness management, such as risk management, logistics, supply chains, regulation and compliance, global competition, among others.
The frequent use of technological resources generates significant gains such as:
- Improving agribusiness management;
- Reducing costs and waste;
- Increasing productivity;
- Generating greater sustainability;
- Optimizing resource use;
- Monitoring operations;
- Increasing the quality of food safety; and
- Reducing negative impacts on the environment.
Using technology to benefit agribusiness management
Modern agribusiness has an approach that helps increase efficiency and reduce resource losses. And technology plays an essential role in optimizing the sector’s management challenges.
Offering a variety of tools and functionalities, often integrated into a single software, technology provides greater efficiency, productivity, and sustainability.
A smart technology like Fusion Platform allows process, documents, and indicators management on an integrated digital solution. Broadly speaking, the tool can address numerous organizational demands.
Technology in agribusiness management operates in different ways, but we highlight these processes:
Supply chain management
An Integrated Management Platform can manage all movements in the supply chain.
Perishability is one of the main concerns in the agribusiness sector, followed by environmental and sustainable issues.
By implementing automation with a BPMS tool, it is possible to record, manage, and track all process stages. From demand for raw materials to final delivery to the consumer.
All requests are created within the Fusion Platform, with forms, automatic submissions, and permissions adapted according to the demands of your company.
Because it integrates with other solutions, such as ERP, there is inventory control, identification of the need to purchase, selection and registration of suppliers, budget analysis, etc. Automation allows adjusting offers to demands.
Planning and delivery control
Logistics and distribution are important issues in agribusiness management. After all, meticulous planning is required for a perishable product to reach the other side of the world in a safe, timely fashion.
This sector is one of the world’s largest exporters of meat, for instance.
Optimizing this process in agribusiness management means automating routes and delivery schedules. Using technology makes it easier to find more advantageous means of transporting products.
Additionally, it is also possible to monitor the location and status of the delivery in real-time. Ensuring greater control over the conditions in which the product will reach the end consumer.
Quality management and regulatory compliance
If there’s something fundamental to agribusiness, it’s quality and compliance with applicable regulations.
If a product does not fit a certain rule, the entire batch may need to be recalled and its sale prohibited.
For this reason, standardization in the production process is crucial. Agribusiness management benefits greatly when it maps its processes, standardizes activities, and implements automation and best execution practices.
Keeping information available in Fusion allows monitoring and controlling quality standards from the receipt of raw materials to the delivery of the final product.
That is, it allows the company to identify potential non-conformities and act on them.
Technology will enable delivering to the customer a product with the same degree of quality and in compliance with applicable legislation, such as the rules required by Anvisa.
With Fusion, agribusiness management can happen anywhere, thanks to the mobile function. Thus, it is not necessary to be physically present in the company to ensure the quality of the delivered product.
Risk Management
Risk Management is a practice adopted by companies seeking to optimize the execution of their activities.
This method aims to predict failures or problems before they occur. Thus, it is possible to adopt actions to minimize or eliminate impacts on activities.
Because it is such an important topic, Fusion has a Risk Management Module, a specific feature to companies to reduce threats associated with operations and processes.
Since all information is centralized, there is a guarantee of identification and control of compliance in all executed activities.
This module allows you to closely monitor risk, related tasks, and execution characteristics.
Document and Record Management
Agribusiness management involves creating, storing, and verifying a series of documentary proofs and records. As Fusion is an end-to-end platform, it allows managing all documents with GED.
This functionality allows creating, organizing, and accessing documents quickly and with integrity.
It is very common for agribusiness operations to take place in different locations, and GED allows documents to be captured and available digitally.
All documents are stored in Fusion. That is, there is a reduction in costs, effort to store and find documents, and a boost in the paperless culture.
Documents are easily found using search terms, and they are made available to related collaborators, ensuring autonomy to users and access limitation, preventing unauthorized access to confidential information.
Fusion also has traceability. That is, all modifications that occur in files are recorded, creating an audit trail.
Managing documents in digital format also intensifies the use of electronic document signing. A native function of the Fusion Platform.
Learn more about the Fusion Platform
Being an Integrated Management Platform, Fusion makes it possible to optimize agribusiness management in terms of processes, documents, and indicators.
The solution has a user-friendly and accessible interface. Neomind’s focus is to offer a tool that any user can use and customize.
The Fusion Platform is flexible and can be customized according to the reality or scenarios faced by your company. In fact, you can try it out in your reality right now!
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