" Significantly improve the way farm are manage and run through the use of technology . " With this aim in creative thinker , Jeremy Adams , Jeroen van Vliet and their colleagues started to develop farm management package 10 long time ago . After 5 years , the web based software , Unosof , was end up and could be commercialized to other agriculturalist in Ecuador . Over the year they have built a well - established reputation in Ecuador and are now gaining a foothold in Colombia .
squad members of Unosof at the Expo Flor Ecuador in Quito , Ecuador
What is Unosof?Unosof is an ERP system for farm . " It covers field architectural plan direction , post - harvest management , stock list direction , export , sale and accounting receivables . The software package is fully web based , reactive , scalable , modular and easy to tailor-make for the needs of each node ” .
How does it work?“We work together with Colombian and American programmers . Our fellowship in Ecuador is a Robert William Service company that commercialize , maintains and translates the farm ’s requirements to our programmers . Our local presence is fundamental , we physically chitchat our client frequently to understand their specific and changing demand . Our day-by-day cycle is to map- , code- , test- , deliver- and implement developments continuously with our customers ” .
Why do agriculturalist wobble to a novel management system?“Most of the time when we visit new potential clients they are wreak on a scheme that is made in - theatre , or on an honest-to-goodness software system " , explain Van Vliet . " If the in - house developer leave or if the former software system is not able to adapt itself to the tight - change needs in our industriousness , they give us a call . "
However , there are many more reasons to make the transition . For example , to save time and money , or to access accurate real - time data . " We see prominent and successful companies working still in Excel . There you could see one mortal work on a story for a duo of calendar week . It is dull and not reliable . Now , with Unosof , a cultivator has veridical - fourth dimension entree to all of their datum . The reliability is much high-pitched and the direction can make upright decisions . All in all , the governance becomes more transparent . For instance ; having live accurate inventory for sales turns into fewer blossom being discarded and less credits being get . "
Not for everyoneIn Ecuador Unosof work with around 40 agriculturist , the well - organized ones in particular . " We choose our clients according to point of professionalism . The company need to be capable to manage the software , from utilisation to datum direction and unfeigned level of understanding data , the level of direction is the decisive factor . ”
Challenging segmentAccording to Van Vliet , they are operating in a ambitious section . " Farm management software in Ecuador and Colombia is a niche . It ’s kind of gaga to point your career into that , because to empathize peak farm on such a detailed floor like we do , you must be unforced to sacrifice everything . asunder from the culture and language , you need to have the talent and power to cater solution that really work for the client . It ’s gruelling to interpret a narrative into code . ”
Also for Jeroen van Vliet , it was a openhanded supposition whether their software system would be accepted in the market . " Its like write a Good Book : grab a penitentiary and paper and start writing from scratch , and hopefully after year of study , someone will like and bribe your oeuvre . We worked on the software package for five yr , hoping that the growers would care and rate it . ”
Current developmentsIn club to stay up to date , the developers in the US and Colombia are unendingly modernizing the software program . “ World Wide Web based farm management software package was an illusion ten long time ago , and to be honest : now it still is very unique , but we were already there . I imagine it ’s a great advantage to have our developers in California , there is so much inspiration on modern solution that we make use of goods and services of , we always stay on top .
Besides staying up to escort , they are also run on adding Modern module . " Currently , we see a great need to incorporate the buying party with the farm . Then the buyer will have live accession to the inventory of the farm , pick up a digital wadding lean / invoice with coordinated corner paster . presently we are building a way of life to integrate the methodology of the Floricode vmp . 1.0 into our software . ”
gain a footing in ColombiaIn summation to ameliorate the software system , Unosof is also expanding their marketplace . Since former 2018 they ’ve been work with a Colombian farm . And it is not just a matter of copying and paste their successful formula in Ecuador . According to Van Vliet , several modules - specially the export and accountancy faculty - had to be adjusted , as Ecuadorian and Colombian farms make quite differently . " Next to all the dissimilar export documents , the inventory management is different at Colombian farm . They betray their flush first before cluster ( pre - cooling & projection ground inventory management ) , whereas Ecuadorian growers bunch together the blossom first and sell them afterwards ( barcoded bunch inventory ) . "
Entering the Colombian marketplace offers a circle of opportunity for Unosof . " We are presently work with one agriculturalist , but we already see the involvement in our software rising . "
" All in all , hard work make up off . "
For more informationUnosofJeroen van VlietEmail:[email protected]www.unosof.com
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