CUSTOMERS
Manufacturers
Agrovia’s procurement and distribution platform service multiple customer segments including chocolate makers, confectionaries, cosmeceutical, nutraceutical and food manufacturers.
Our core competencies at origin provide customers with a verifiable process to discover and ensure cost-effective material spend. We gain the confidence and trust of our customers by demonstrating traceability, transparency and personable customer service from origin to dock.
Supply Chain Management
Agrovia's supply chain management service model caters to the growing need for single-origin, certified and traceable premium cacao.
Material integration strategies are developed based on unique customer criteria such as network capacities, production line scheduling, seasonal forecasting and innovation. We conduct collaborative high-level 'whiteboarding' and deep-dive analytics developing customer maps that have lead to more efficient material spend and integration.
Customized Orders
Our growers include single-origin professionally managed estate farms and organized small-holder groups. Based on customer needs, we offer both standardized and customized orders including seasonal micro-lots as well as longer-term agreements.
Moreover, with enough lead time, we positively encourage large or micro-lots to be customized. For example, homogenous fermentation rates and drying times can and are adjusted to suit customer needs.
Bean selection begins with our origin procurement compliance process. We collect and categorize agronomic data that generates both a material and farm performance report. This data is then analyzed in a scorecard format. Much of the criteria is based on geographical genetic mapping, grower pre-harvest and management, farm microclimates, post-harvest climates, practices and testing. Consistent with our commitment to visability, this data is made available to customers.
Competetive Advantage
As supply chain specialists, we invest and manage in the processes that reliably deliver premium cacao. From product customization, integrating material into manufcatuering lines, measuring performance whilst ensuring personable customer service, our focus is on providing advantage.
Our inventory management practices can offer structured financing into certain customer agreements. This promotes financial planning, greater visibility into production line scheduling and risk management strategies that create competitive advantages for our customers.
