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Nexer, a global tech company and one of Microsoft’s largest partners in Latin America, was chosen by Minasul to implement the digital farm concept based on Dynamics.
Minasul, the Cooperative of Coffee Growers in the Varginha region, with over sixty years of existence, has implemented the Digital Farm concept, which includes precision agriculture actions.
Nexer started the implementation of Dynamics AX ERP at the cooperative’s facilities in Varginha, Minas Gerais in 2018. The first initiative was the implementation of a world-leading ERP to support all the other tools of the Digital Farm.
The implementation began at the Cooperative’s facilities in Varginha, Minas Gerais, and will later be expanded to the cooperatives’ farms. The first initiative was the implementation of a world-leading ERP that will support all the other tools of the Digital Farm, the Microsoft Dynamics AX.
The use of such a large-scale ERP goes beyond improving the service process for Minasul’s cooperatives. It modernizes and improves the financial, accounting, tax, organizational, and technological dimensions of the company. In practice, the program serves as an intelligence and command center for the Cooperative, gathering all data and information from the production sector, accounting department invoices, sales statistics, financial statements, business plans, and customer service data. All data is concentrated in a single system and in real-time. The information is protected with encryption, authentication processes, and automatic backups.
This new concept encompasses the way of producing and commercializing and is rapidly becoming part of the coffee culture, emphasizing constant efficiency and waste elimination. The Digital Farm is the most modern form of agribusiness and rural life, incorporating Telemetry, Traceability, Image Processing, and Remote Sensing.
Luis Henrique Albinati, the Director of New Business at Minasul, highlights that the project, which began in August 2017, completed its first phase with the integration of the Cooperative’s main registries. Thereafter, work intensified for the delivery of the second phase, which took place in January 2018 and covered the administrative areas. In addition to these modules, the Cooperative’s retail and coffee management areas was also integrated into Dynamics AX in 2018, thus completing all stages of a project that prioritizes innovation without neglecting the criteria of security and reliability, fundamental for systems of this magnitude.
Nexer, a global tech company and one of Microsoft’s largest partners in Latin America, was chosen by Minasul to implement this project, being responsible for customizing Dynamics AX to meet the present and future needs of the Cooperative.
“The Nexer team was fully committed to the success of this important project at Minasul, which has brought efficiency, control and security, as well as expanding the Cooperative’s growth capacity,” says Alexandre Marques, Director of the Agricultural Business Unit at Nexer.
“The departments use the most modern software management systems available. A secure, robust, and integrated system already adopted by more than 20,000 companies worldwide,” celebrates Albinati.