F4F helps organisations the length and breadth of the agricultural supply chain to control costs, increase sales and increase levels of customer service. By connecting computer systems together we create efficiencies by automating the exchange of logistics and accounting information both within your own organisation and between the organisations you trade with.

AGRICULTURE - A COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY

Whatever role your organisation plays in the agriculture supply chain, it will only survive and flourish it you can provide your customers with the goods they want, when they want them, at the price they are willing to pay and by proving continued high levels of customer service.

Achieving this puts great emphasis on your ability to control all of the logistical aspects of your organisation. Managing raw materials, stock levels, scheduling deliveries in and out, invoicing and [implementing traceability] all become key processes that ensure your organisation thrives in the highly competitive agriculture market.

NOT A NEW PROBLEM

Most agricultural organisations, whatever their size, look to their computer applications and systems to control many of these essential business processes. Most of the time this works well. However it is where these business processes touch those of your customers and suppliers, where your computer systems must interact with theirs that problems can occur and where things can go wrong.

Most organisations implement manual processes to manage the overlap of these business processes. This typically means processing incoming invoices, despatch notes and [another] by hand. Aside from the associated cost of manually processing high volumes of paperwork for what are typically low value goods, the opportunity for errors to occur is enormous. This can lead to your highly efficient and automated internal business processes breaking down when they interact with those of your customers, suppliers of governmental agencies.

B2B - A NEW SOLUTION

Business to Business (B2B) electronic trading addresses these issues by providing a simple and cost effective mechanism to connect your accounting, manufacturing or stock control systems to those of your customers and suppliers. This allows financial and logistical documents to be exchanged directly with your business partners without manual intervention. F4F provides the expertise to connect your system to our trading hub which means the wholesale elimination of errors and document losses. This in turn results in less mistakes, higher levels of customer service, repeat orders and allows expensive manual resource to be redeployed to other areas within the business.