With the vision of bringing revolutionary change to the way cashew farming is done in Ivory Coast, Cashew Coast aims for quality and efficiency in cashew farming, processing, and distribution. The company is also committed to creating more jobs for women and providing better working conditions and training opportunities for employees and farmers.
Integrating Operations Along the Agricultural Value Chain with SAP® Rural Sourcing Management
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
- Suboptimal quality traceability in the collection of cashews
- Gaps in supply chain that need to be addressed to optimize farm-to-fork operational processes
- Limited transparency throughout the cashew production and distribution lifecycle
Why SAP
- Proven expertise to understand agribusiness challenges and address them using the SAP® Rural Sourcing Management solution, an industry cloud solution
- Enablement of mobile access for field agents with offline availability using the SAP Rural Sourcing Management solution, supporting data analysis at any time and from any location
- Collaboration with SAP to support the go-live of the company’s digital transformation vision
After: Value-Driven Results
- Enhanced farmer payments and funds traceability
- Improved control over liquidity and budgeting, thanks to real-time data availability company-wide
- Strengthened traceability with accurate inventory and distribution information, minimizing wastage
- Optimized supply chain operations with transparency, streamlining cashew collections from 87 villages
- Leveraged high-performance supply chain analytics, allowing the acquisition, manipulation, and visualization of data from multiple sources
- Enabled access to a large volume of data in real time for quick analysis, scrutiny, and verification of agricultural products’ origination source
- Streamlined processes
- Reinforced customers’ trust in its brand, thanks to the verifiable nature of the organic supply chain