ZEFS AKTINIDIA SA | EPSILON NET

Case Study

Company: ZEFS AKTINIDIA SA

Category: Manufacture, Cooperatives

Applications: Galaxy Enterprise Suite

Company

ZEFS AKTINIDIA SA is an exports, verticalized organization producing, collecting, preserving, standardizing and distributing kiwis and table grapes. It has been acknowledged as the first Producers Team in Greece by the Ministry for Rural Development and Food, according to Regulation 2200/96 of the European Union. Today, it is one of the largest Producers Teams in Greece, with over 350 members, a total cultivated land of 4,161 acres, owned facilities of 11,000 sq. m. on a plot of 30 acres, preservation chambers with a capacity of 10,000 tons and a modern electronic sorter of round fruit, equipped with fruit quality identification cameras, exporting 95% of its production to 30 countries in 4 continents. The company invests on research and development of new items and varieties, contributing to the restructuring of crops and agricultural sustainability, converting farmers-members to successful entrepreneurs.
The core and non-negotiable value of ZEUS AKTINIDIA SA is the quality of its products, a strong factor which led to its establishment in the demanding markets of the United Kingdom, the USA, Asia and others, and introduced Greek kiwis in foreign markets.

Need

A strategically important decision for ZEUS AKTINIDIA SA was to focus on quality and product control, from the land to the super market shelves. For this reason, the company needed an ERP system connecting to the zeusCore plot monitoring Internet platform and the automated collection system, creating a complete traceability system ensuring connection of all production, collection, preservation and trade processes, from the land to the points of sales. Thus, the company’s needs focused on the integrated monitoring of the production process, quality control, traceability and employment of processes to facilitate producers.

Solution

ZEUS AKTINIDIA SA used to deploy five (5) different applications, which caused significant dispersion of information and high management cost. The company chose the Galaxy Enterprise Suite IT system by Epsilon SingularLogic, in order to integrate best business practices and combine its vision for growth and quality with technology.

The solution covers the following:
• Mapping of producers’ plots
• Monitoring of agricultural products production process, from collection, sorting and packaging to sales
• Production and quality control function per product batch
• Full production traceability
• Actual production cost for the items produced, in all stages of production
• Production scheduling process for foreign orders
• Creation of a system to monitor processes related to producers (statements, settlements)

Benefits

With the deployment of Galaxy, ZEUS AKTINIDIA has achieved significant qualitative and quantitative benefits:
• Unification of scattered IT systems used in the past, in a single platform
• Collection automation through a smart collection system
• Detailed monitoring of all production process stages
• On-line communication with modern fresh fruit sorting mechanical equipment
• Traceability per plot and producer
• Overview of productivity/performance per plot, with simultaneous quality control of crop
• Accurate determination of actual cost for each stage of the production process
• Modeling of the loading monitoring system, with integration of the special processes required by foreign firms
• Minimization of management time for liabilities to producers, in combination with secure web banking features, directly from the application, ensuring accurate and fast payments
• Eradication of management errors
• A complete information system about all the company’s operations
• Full mapping of production land, properties and crops
• 35% reduction of collection time for fresh products
• Eradication of producer trucks waiting queues during collection peak days
• 30% reduction of data registration time for production processes
• Tracing a batch takes a few minutes and is displayed in detail;
• Producers enjoy faster service, receiving results of the course of their production and their financial figures
• Improved relationships with foreign customers, bringing in new sales
• 19% reduction of the management operating cost for the entire company
• Timely and valid decision making

Testimonials

We have set the bar high from the start with regard to quality, and this has led us to invest and modernize our processes. We trusted Galaxy by Epsilon SingularLogic and our choice was justified. In a relatively short amount of time, and during the pandemic, but with a cooperative spirit, we managed to achieve our goals. Information “from the land to the shelf” is very important and it is now available through an integrated IT system, making us stronger in a very competitive international context, with nothing left to fear. ZEUS can now effectively, reliably and with the necessary flexibility provide not only a top-quality, safe product to foreign markets, but to prove it efforts, with the infrastructure it created in cooperation with Epsilon SingularLogic. I believe that we have made leaps of growth and technology and today we are ready more than ever to compete with major companies abroad. We are absolutely satisfied with the outcome of our cooperation with Epsilon SingularLogic and it remains our strategic partner.

Christina Manossi

Managing Director, ZEUS AKTINIDIA SA