Agripac invests in technology to improve production processes and inventories

Company has invested $2 million each year to accelerate its digital transformation

With 95% of its transactions generated outside of Guayaquil, the city where it has its headquarters, Agripac decided to deepen its technological transformation to improve its production processes and respond to demands in the more than 190 stores it has in the country.

The company, which operates its agricultural, banana, fertilizer, seeds, animal health, aquaculture, consumer, industrial chemicals and fertilizer terminal divisions, deployed a significant investment in technological infrastructure.

Con Lumen Technologies,partnerspecialized in IT, the firm provided a Data Center service. This digital structure allows you to better integrate and manage business information. With this, it provides the logistics, products and operations areas of the company with reliable and updated data.

Bolívar Vallejo, Agripac Technology Manager, indicates that with this digital transformation they can know the real-time demands that are generated in the premises, coordinate the supply of raw materials for Agripac plants and know what is required to be produced.

The executive says that the company is investing $2 million annually for processes that are related to this technological transformation.

“With the information provided by the system, we know what should be produced, how much and where the merchandise should be sent so that the inventory is optimized,” says Vallejo, who says that with this they expect a reduction in costs.

Inventory management is one of the advantages that Agripac sees when applying technological improvements. Vallejo says that since they have implemented changes, inventories have gone down.

As part of its digital transformation, Agripac also enabled a virtual store, a project that accelerated with the pandemic.

Two years ago they entered the Peruvian market with agencies in border cities. Those two branches are online, as are the other agencies.

Lumen states that agribusiness has been in the imagination of many as a sector, traditional and in some ways very artisanal, however, with the digital transformation, today the concept of industry 4.0 is being ventured, which contemplates an era of production of foods that take advantage of digital technology.