Rombola Family
Farms
Streamlined Agricultural Operations To Foster Growth & Innovation.
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Streamlined Agricultural Operations To Foster Growth & Innovation.
Rombola Family Farms faced challenges with scaling their existing systems, lack of data visibility, insufficient reporting, manual processes, and security issues.
They required a consolidated and robust Farm Management and ERP solution to address these challenges, support business growth, and enable efficient operations.
Folio3 provided an end-to-end Farm Management and ERP solution called AgriERP, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain. The solution digitized processes, improved data visibility, enhanced reporting capabilities, and ensured compliance with industry standards.
Rombola Farms, a leading agricultural business, specializes in crop planning, cultivation, harvesting, and distribution. With a strong focus on sustainability and delivering high-quality produce, the company has established itself as a key player in the industry. To optimize operations and drive efficient decision-making, Rombola Farms partnered with Folio3 for an end-to-end Farm Management and ERP solution. This collaboration enables Rombola Farms to streamline processes, improve resource utilization, and foster growth and innovation.
Rombola Family Farms encountered significant challenges in their agricultural operations, impeding growth and efficiency:
To address Rombola Family Farms’ challenges, Folio3 developed a comprehensive Farm Management and ERP solution. The approach involved leveraging Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain and integrating it with Folio3’s Agri-based web and mobile apps. This allowed for a seamless and unified system to support the farm’s operations.
Our team went through a detailed and intensive discovery to try and understand what exactly the client wanted and the problems and challenges that different users would face so that we could build a solution that solved all the issues.
After deciding on user roles and mapping the whole user journey and workflows with the help of storyboards, we designed basic wireframes that would help in building the solution.
With everything else ready, and the client on the same page, we finally deployed a full fledge solution, tailored to the client’s needs and liking.
Based on the Crop, Variety and Planting date, plan out upcoming seasons based on pre- Built models.
Project and calculate required acreage. The solution suggests resources and materials based on the historical and actual customer demands. With Machine Learning involved, the forecasts improve over time.
Unlimited iterations of a given plan can be done by tweaking a number of variables to get the right plan for your next season.
The pre-built plan templates help you schedule crops on your timeline, save the new plans as templates.
Define your own phases for each crop to organize activities and define dependencies.
Pick from a number of available activity types to create new activities with estimated materials, resources and hours.
Create work orders to put planned activities to execution by allocating available resources and assets.
By merging multiple activities in a single work order based on common resources or assets, optimize your work execution.
As the work order passes though different stages of its execution, the supervisor has the capability to review & approve before it hits financials.
Field workers receive notifications on new work order assignments and use a mobile app to clock-in and out, also record time against activities.
Supervisors can review and report work order progress against a group of field workers. And productivity can be measured in time spent, runs or acreage.
The app supports offline mode and can reliably sync data whenever connection is available.
Perform scouting activities and record observations along with uploading pictures and marking areas on maps to report to the back office.
Data collected can be visualized through self-service BI using PowerBI.
Generate work orders automatically based on the outlying scouting data with pre-defined priorities and assignments.
Folio3’s AgriERP solution, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain, helped Rombola Family Farms streamline workflows and improve efficiency. The digitization of processes, automation of manual tasks, and comprehensive data visibility enabled accurate decision-making. The solution also supported scalability, enhanced security, and compliance with industry standards. Overall, Rombola Family Farms experienced improved productivity and streamlined operations.
