Vertically Integrated Agri Business

Commodity buyers need excellent understanding and the interconnected nature of the global economy. Conditions in commodity markets can change rapidly. Traders & sourcing specialists needs to be alert to many micro and macro factors. The physical supply chain is the key in the commodity trading business, and they need a holistic platform that can handle this complexity with an integrated view of all the data.

Commodity traders and sourcing specialists provide the vital support for the global need in a complex value chain. Some of the nuances which are specific to sourcing and trading of Agri commodities compared to any other raw materials are:

• Managing the high-volume contracts and the risk involved in it go hand in hand
• Quality is critical in matching position, managing the value of trades and meeting the quality needs of manufactures and traders alike
• Logistics is critical for trading organizations to manage delivery and movements of high volumes of commodities. Visibility and streamlined processes support logistics operations
• Food Processors, Farmers Cooperatives, Biomass, Scrap Metal and other manufacturers use traded commodities in their manufacturing or value-added processing operations. They need to plan deliveries and allocate to sites aligned to the demand generated from production plans. Optimizing the formulation process at least cost and high quality becomes critical especially for animal feed producers
• Farmers co-operatives need to manage the growers. Market commodity on grower's behalf to increase market share for better price is their key focus while providing storage facilities, managing invoices and provide growers with all contract related information

Sonata Software, a world class Platformation™ Company helps vertically integrated Agri businesses achieve platform-based business transformation.  Successful born digital companies use business platforms as key to grow their business to achieve double digit growth and tremendous success in the marketplace. However, we have seen many find it challenging to create and deploy Platforms. Sonata’s Platformation™ methodology simplifies the outcome.  Platformation™ is Sonata’s unique approach for building platform-based business models to achieve Digital Transformation.