AgriOne: THE SAP BUSINESS ALL-IN-ONE CERTIFIED SOLUTION FOR AGRICULTURAL COMPANIES AND COOPERATIVES Consolidation: following the recent mergers and takeovers, the new perimeter of the Charentes Alliance cooperative encompasses more than 5000 active members. The plant production, agricultural supply, wine-growing, farming and livestock activities spread over some 235,000 hectares in Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Dordogne. Because the group’s long-term development involves modernising and improving its competitiveness, SAP All-in-One now allows monitoring and finance rules to be harmonised group-wide, and the AgriOne certified vertical solution provides unified management of business processes of the cooperative’s branches and activities.

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QUICKFACTS
COMPANY
»» Charentes Alliance Group
»» 625 employees
»» Headquarters in Cognac,France
SECTOR
»» Agrifood
NEEDS AND CHALLENGES
»» Modernisation of production
tools and consolidation of
management standards
»» Harmonisation of processes for
sustainable development and
growth
OUTCOMES
»» Simplified access to information
for all personnel
»» Harmonised financial rules and
standards throughout the group
»» Readability of transactions of
every branch
SOLUTION
»» SAP All-in-One and AgriOne
SCOPE
»» Financial management and
business processes
DEPLOYMENTTIME
»» 18 months
NUMBER OF USERS
»» 240
WEBSITE
»» www.charentes-alliance.fr
The Charentes Alliance group is an agricultural,
grain, wine, farming, livestock and supply
cooperative that collects a million tonnes of
agricultural products every year, generating €425
million in turnover. The Group boasts a wealth of
skills, with more than 625 employees across a
range of activities such as plant production,
agricultural supplies, wine-growing and garden
centres, supported by central services that provide
the cross-functional resources required for the
smooth operation of the group.With membership of
more than 5000 farmers, Charentes Alliance is the
top agricultural cooperative society in the Poitou-
Charentes region.
THE NEED FOR HARMONISED FINANCIAL
STANDARDS AND BUSINESS PROCESSES
Created by the merger of the Charente agricultural
co-op with the Syntéane agricultural co-op in 2009,
the group wanted to promptly lay foundations that
would allow it to benefit from the economies of
scale and synergies generated by the merger, to
guarantee long-lasting growth. Reactivity in the
unification process of the two cooperatives was a
priority.
« We have laid down group
managementrulesanddirectives,
and we have become more
competitive. »
One of the first tasks was to define monitoring and
financial standards for the entire cooperative. This
effort to modernise tools and improve
competitiveness therefore turned towards an All-
in-One SAP solution, which is particularly
recommended for the setting up of integrated real-
timeoperationalprocesseswithreportingfunctions
that are sophisticated and highly successful yet
user-friendly.
The very complete range of SAP All-in-One
functionalities,basedonbestpractices,isavailable
as standard in a library of ready-to-use modules.
Consolidation: following the recent mergers and takeovers,
the new perimeter of the Charentes Alliance cooperative
encompasses more than 5000 active members. The plant
production, agricultural supply, wine-growing, farming
and livestock activities spread over some 235,000 hectares
in Charente, Charente-Maritime, and Dordogne. Because
the group’s long-term development involves modernising
and improving its competitiveness, SAP All-in-One now allows monitoring and finance
rules to be harmonised group-wide, and the AgriOne certified vertical solution provides
unified management of business processes of the cooperative’s branches and activities.
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« AgriOne has enabled us to
sustain our internal and external
growth, and this information
system is proving to be a
competitive advantage - a
strategic plus - because it is
flexible and durable, and its
wealth of functions makes it easy
for us to open up to other business
sectors. »
Dominique Simon
Information Systems Director
Charentes Alliance Group
This exhaustive range has provided a solution to all the
immediate functional requirements of the group, whilst future
developments can be contemplated with flexibility and peace
of mind.
Starting from this SAP All-in-One standard ERP basis, the
AgriOne preconfigured vertical solution was then deployed.
AgriOne was developed by EoZen - SQLIGroup especially for
agricultural companies and cooperatives to manage every
branch of the business, especially collection and agricultural
supplies.
BEST PRACTICES, DELIVERED QUICKLY
The help of an integrator partner with dual expertise in best
practices and SAP solutions as well as agricultural businesses
sped up integration by reducing deployment times, but without
interrupting production. The evaluation and control of budgets
and deadlines also contributed to the successful merger of the
two cooperatives.
REAL-TIME ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND TRANSPARENT,
CONSOLIDATED INTEGRATION
What are the benefits of the solution deployed? More
specifically, access to the right information is now controlled:
whatever his or her role in the company, every user can access
the information of interest in real time. The financial reports of
eachentityareissuedinfullconsistencywithGroupguidelines,
with perfect readability of all transactions.
Themanagementandvaluationofstocksandsilosisconducted
in real time, in an integrated and transparent manner. The
reports and dashboards are based on reliable key performance
indicators, also in real time. The branch-by-branch
consolidation of activities is operational.Thus,for example,the
group’s wine-growing and popcorn activities range from
production to marketing to the end customer, including the
product processing, packaging, and transport phases in
between. The solution provides visibility over all processes
fromoneendofthechaintotheother,evenwhentheprocesses
are shared between several legal entities.
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