SABI Magazine SABI Magazine June July 2017 | Page 30
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SAP launches
SAP Rural Sourcing Management
Solution to support and grow
smallholder farmers in
developing countries
SAP Rural Sourcing Management is a new solution
that is made to support the connection of smallholder
farmers in developing countries with global producers;
providing transparency, accountability, and access to
financial services.
The solution supports a Strategic
Alliance between SAP and GIZ
to
strengthen
smallholders’
agricultural businesses in Uganda.
A predecessor of the solution
was developed and piloted by
an SAP research division, in a
development partnership with
the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit
(GIZ) GmbH under the framework
of the develoPPP.de program
on behalf of the German
Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(BMZ). Before the solution
became generally available,
SAP and Barry Callebaut, the
world’s leading manufacturer
of high-quality chocolate and
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cocoa products, cooperated in
a custom-development project
helping Barry Callebaut enable
sustainable cocoa farming.
According to Brett Parker,
managing director at SAP
Africa, the SAP Rural Sourcing
Management solution is tailor-
made to support the growth of
smallholder farmers in developing
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