Unosof is a software package program and servicing company that care over 1000 + ha of cut flowers for rafts of farm based in Ecuador and Colombia . As for many industries , 2020 present some real challenge for them and they therefore decide to invest their spare time in improve their system . " With our farm implementation paused for most of the year , we decided to focus more hard on the modernisation of our infrastructure with an eye on improving the scalability and handiness of our system that are mission - vital for our drug user " , explains Jeroen van Vliet .
squad members of Unosof at the Expo Flor Ecuador 2018 in Quito , Ecuador
16 long time of experienceUnosof is an ERP organization for farm . " It encompass production- , post - harvest- , inventorying direction , exportations , sales and accounting receivables . The software is amply web ground , antiphonal , scalable , modular and loose to custom-make for the needs of each client ” . Their firmly - working and dedicated team of professionals have been committed to making a difference of opinion in the cut - flower farm diligence for over 16 years and in FloralDaily’smost late interview , they shared what has kept them going strong in this competitory industry and how they ’re working every daylight to go along their ontogenesis and help their clients grow , now and well into the hereafter .
Virtualizing their systemsOver the last years , the fellowship had grown significantly and presently manages over 1000 + ha of cut bloom for XII of farm based in Ecuador and Colombia . Last year has been a ambitious one and they determine to empower more time in modernizing their systems . The most significant footstep they have take in moving towards this direction was virtualizing their systems across the control panel and move everything to the cloud onto components host by Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) , van Vliet explicate . " The applications programme model(s ) we select to follow , and the AWS service we have implemented so far , have allowed us to increase our organization ' availability and gotten us a wad cheeseparing to achieving genuine 99.999 % uptime for customers and empowering near real - prison term convalescence of services . "
modify the game for where scalability is concernedAdditionally , the move to AWS and the containerization of their front - remainder entanglement servers have exchange the biz for them where scalability is concerned . " In an industry where high time of year can see intensity gain of 500 - 1000 % on a single day , scalability becomes the difference of opinion between catastrophe and disc - setting sales . We have streamlined our growing pipeline through containerization and automation , which permit us to quickly push out new code updates to all servers at the same time and as - needed , at near veridical - sentence speeds . This change alone has also invest us to descale up our scheme automatically and immediately when demand is heavy during the holiday , and descale them out in a similar fashion , as the vacation and meddling weeks or seasons pass . "
Ability to securely link to the Unosof platformFinally , where data approachability is refer , they spent a proficient part of 2020 establishing and improving the power for third parties to securely connect to the Unosof platform and memory access data point through an industry - standard balance API . " Thanks to this component of our modernization effort , we have established multiple endpoint where businesses within the industry ( e.g. , wholesalers , importer , cargo agencies , truck companies ) can well touch base and transmit entropy between each other . The REST API tools grant farms to provide admission to their live inventory and future projections and receive decree back from their customers directly and securely in real - clock time , bypassing the need for manual entry or someone - to - somebody communication . In the abbreviated time they have been available , we have already seen these tools bring forth a spectacular gain in overall sales exposure for our customers , which , in turn , has translated to a lineal increase in sales for them . "
Piloting RFID Post Harvest ModulesMoving in a direction toward increasing automation , they have spend the first half of 2021 pilot a organization using RFID technology across their various postharvest modules . " RFID allows us to track and trace data in a very efficient means . It can read data through a radio frequency signaling that will enable us to automatically run down data passively at a aloofness via positioned liquidator . However , when necessary , it still corroborate the Graeco-Roman manual method using scanner handguns . This engineering itself is not novel , but it is in conclusion touch an low-priced price power point . aside from the internal uses in the postharvest , the RFID technology has the electric potential to be applied across the entire logistics chain as swell borrowing of the engineering takes place in the industriousness overall . "
More than modernizing their systemOf course , the last year has not just been about modernizing their technology great deal . " We also used this time to reenforce our noesis base , further standardize all summons , and proceed to document , document , and document the Unosof ecosystem . Now that everyone is running on the same version of codification , it ’s more important than ever to document both changes and updates to existing modules as well as all the new feature and communicate this effectively to our user . "
Excited for the upcoming developmentsUnosof is very excited with the advancement they have made over the last twelvemonth and they are even more frantic for the approaching developments they will be launching in the coming month , " including a imagination storage allocation tool for order fulfilment , a entirely re - design sales Sir Frederick Handley Page with real - time inventory for open market place / standing order / forcing out sales , and a more polished and much more mobile - friendly exploiter port and design ! "
For more information : UNOSOFJeroen van VlietEmail:[email protected]www.unosof.com
