AgriMine/Wilnett (Agriliance)
The operational efficiency challenge:
- Significantly reduce operating costs
- Simplify workflow processes for collecting point of sale data from retail reporting locations
- Provide user-friendly systems to upload data from retail locations using 32 different accounting software packages
- Supply comprehensive and accurate real-time data suitable for use by Agriliance, basic manufacturers and Harvest Partners
- Launch in 4 months
The DataConduit solution:
- Create a private intranet site for Agriliance members to upload sales data from legacy accounting systems directly into AgriMine
- 462 reporting locations
- 1,500 branch locations
- Create additional module for "cleaning" data
- Reconcile members' customer and product
- files with master customer and product files
- Create a data warehouse from which cleaned, real-time data can be aggregated, analyzed and reported to
- Agriliance sales and marketing managers
- Basic manufacturers
- Harvest Partners
- Provide sophisticated data mining capabilities to help Agriliance and their retailers better understand their business
- Support AgriMine with a dedicated, full-time customer service staff
The results:
- Personnel supporting AgriMine operations were reduced from 20 to 10
- AgriMine in-house operations were closed and transferred to DataConduit
- Increased customer satisfaction
- DataConduit successfully processed
- 6.5 million transactions from.
- 2.3 million growers purchasing.
- 20,000 products
Customer testimonials:
"We chose DataConduit to complete this project because of their vision and leadership in the industry. What we didn't expect to receive in return was a finished project that exceeded and continues to exceed our original expectations. DataConduit, with the creation of the AgriMine web site, helped us reduce our operating costs while providing a more efficient and improved system. We're now servicing more retailers with increased customer satisfaction, and at a savings to Agriliance."
-CEO of a major Ag Distributor
