Markets We Serve

Agriculture

Key Issues

Agricultural based markets, including food processing, have been and continues to be in a process of change.
The drivers for this change are many and varied.
In some respects, these are common issues faced by many commercial companies. However, in other respects they are unique to the agro-manufacturing sector.

The decline in grower based subsidies is not expected to cease or to be reversed in the foreseeable future.
This means that at the primary level, there is an increased need to become more effective and efficient.
In simple terms this means being able to deliver the same – or more – from a tighter financial base.
At the simplest level this means being able to take out costs by using both internal and external resources work in a ‘smarter' way.
Identifying cost centres and cost levels is the beginning but by no means the end of the story.
Equally important is an analysis and mapping of the key business processes.

These demands have had a profound effect upon the workings of the existing supply chain.
In the first place partial knowledge will not, any longer, be sufficient.
The real need now if for complete information covering:

• Costs
• Customers
• Competitors
• Suppliers
• Logistics

More importantly this information cannot sit in isolated silos. Effectiveness comes from joining up the whole range of information, both hard number based and softer transactional data, into a form that can be integrated and then monitored.

Increasingly, companies involved at all stages in the food manufacturing supply chain, need a 360' view of themselves, their suppliers and their customers, in order to plan with a greater sense of accuracy.

Silverbear's solutions provide the ideal vehicle to communicate with customers, suppliers and employees. Through distinct areas, it delivers key messages and information at the most appropriate time. The Silverbear's integration solutions provided the essential integration layer that allows ‘back office' business systems to interact and link processes and front office systems.