Agriculture and Food

A flagship sector within our national economy, we have solid references(30% of our business since 2018) in the agri-food sector across the entire chain, from farmers to processors to distributors.

Thanks to our mastery of the entire supply chain, we are able to put constraints and market trends into perspective.

We collaborate with agricultural cooperatives to enhance their supply chain performance in both the collection and distribution of agricultural supplies, transforming their point-of-sale networks to achieve better outcomes in procurement, production, and distribution.

In the agri-food industry, whether for dry goods, fresh products, or beverages, we apply proven industrial practices from both our sector and others. Our key areas of focus include flow optimization, inventory management, cost reduction in both industrial and logistics operations, collaboration with distributors, forecasting and planning, improving industrial site performance, and optimizing industrial or logistics master plans.

The agri-food supply chain faces major daily challenges: ever-increasing customer demands, major economic and regulatory constraints, business constraints, traceability at every stage, etc. Economic performance depends on the ability of manufacturers to manage their flows to adapt to fluctuating demand, limited, seasonal and perishable resources, and high traceability requirements. Resource management, sourcing, stock policy, forecasts, planning, promotional sales, transport plans… these are all subjects that require an end-to-end supply chain vision to guarantee cost control.

Newton.Vaureal's expertise for agricultural cooperatives

Agricultural cooperatives are transforming themselves to adapt to changing market conditions and take up a number of challenges, notably those of economic performance, cash flow requirements, the creation of high value-added value chains and sustainable agriculture, while maintaining the quality of service they offer their farmers.

Our teams work on behalf of cooperatives and other players in the agricultural sector to transform their operations. We work in the fields of collection, processing and distribution. We define solutions and support their implementation to enhance operational performance, develop service offerings and meet sustainable development objectives (zero net emissions, zero waste).

Our actions lead to optimizing collection or distribution networks, facilitating the management of activity planning, organizing arbitration logics between sectors, developing the operational performance of sites or functions (supply, planning, sales administration, transport, storage), setting up new flows (e-commerce; new sectors, new products) and deploying or upgrading information systems (ERP, WMS, TMS, APS, CRM).

Our supply chain diagnostics shed light on the reality of your physical flows and the capacity of your various capacities to meet your workload. They also draw up an assessment of your supply chain costs, to help you make the right decisions. Our master plans enable you to draw up a roadmap for developing your performance, addressing physical flows as well as supply chain organization and associated IS.

Examples of assignments:

Integration of an e-commerce sales channel for inputs

Improving warehouse performance – Lay-out, workstation productivity, inventory reliability, etc.

Optimization of transport plans – reduction in the number of kg/km travelled

Distribution network optimization

Reducing the number of collection silos

Reducing the number of warehouses

Development and implementation of an S&OP plan

IS implementation: ERP – TMS – WMS

Newton.Vaureal Consulting's agri-food expertise

Through their experience, our consultants have acquired solid skills in the agri-food sector. They are thus able to intervene in all links of the supply chain: forecasting, procurement, demand management, planning, distribution and transport.

Examples of assignments:

Logistics master plan for the distribution of organic products to supermarkets and hypermarkets.
Sizing and organization of fruit and vegetable distribution in Europe
Demand forecasts
Warehouse layout
French transport strategy (Fresh products’ distribution)
Logistics outsourcing
Implementation of shared supply management (SCM)
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