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Some merchants and coffee roasters also have blending
processes as part of their trading process as well. There
are a variety of distribution models needing a lot of
flexibility in terms of logistics that may include comprise
splitting and/or combinin containers, truckloads or
even pallets. A lot of this functionality will not be found
in a generic, multi-commodity CTRM out of the box.
Agiboo has seen considerable success in recent years by
offering commodity-specific and pre-configured versions
of its Agiblocks solution to customers and it has gained
a reputation for delivering these commodity-specific
solutions as opposed to a more generic approach. As
CEO Jan van den Brom says “The approach of providing
pre-configured versions of Agiblocks for commodities
like Cocoa or say Coffee is really paying off. It allows
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smaller businesses to implement faster and more
cheaply by reducing implementation complexity.”
As trade margins have decrease and oversight
increased, keeping costs down and minimizing errors
has naturally become the focus of many commodity-
related firms. With change being the only constant in
the industry, having an agile and adaptable, easy to
implement out of the box CTRM with low total cost of
ownership is now mandatory. By taking the commodity-
specific approach, Agiboo has managed to meet these
needs of the user community – particularly smaller more
focused businesses – without also being able to offer
an ecosystem of focused solutions and functionality to
larger entities.
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