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Corsevilla improves its control of quality and traceability with Sage X3 verticalized by Aritmos





Corsevilla Headquarter

Client: CorSevilla.

Sector: Food industry.

Profile: Corsevilla is an Andalusian Cooperative Society. It has more than 500 members and its activities cover: feeding and marketing lambs, the manufacture of feedstuffs and marketing of zoosanitary products; the supply of technical services and the making and marketing of goat's milk cheeses and Iberian pork products.

Objectives: Using an advanced computer system for control of its processes, able to handle its very diverse production and the growing demand for traceability in the sector.

Solution: Sage X3 and Abel Entreprise.

Corsevilla is an Andalusian Cooperative Society, located in Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville, whose proprietors are livestock farmers. From its beginnings, in 1985, its purpose has been to improve performance in its members' exploitations, marketing their products and offering them high quality raw materials and technical services.

Today, the organization has more than 500 members and their activities extend to: feeding and marketing lambs, manufacturing organic feed compounds; marketing zoosanitary products; the supply of technical services and the making and marketing of goat's milk cheeses and Iberian pork products. Among its products we find a range from live lambs, ewes and wool, to the feedstuffs most used in feeding free range livestock. Corsevilla also markets pure goat's milk cheeses and cured meat products from Iberian pigs, especially hams and cured sausages.

Corsevilla's aim has always been to improve performance in the exploitations of its members, marketing their products and offering top quality raw materials and services.

The cooperative prepares its feedstuffs and services principally for its members in the province, while it supplies lambs to large-scale slaughterhouses throughout the country, with an important presence in the north. Its food products are marketed through a network of small national distributors and also reach traditional shops in the provinces of Seville and Badajoz, distributed by its own network.

Corsevilla's products are certified and have won several prizes, such as the Sustainable Development Award, given by ANDANATURA, 4 national prizes for goat's cheese in oil and 3 international prizes for the quality of their cured goat's milk cheeses.

Principal challenges in the management field


Corsevilla defines itself as a medium-sized cooperative. Even so, its management processes have a certain complexity since, “our members are proprietors and, often, they are also our customers and distributors”, says David Aparicio, the organization's technical specialist. This particular feature, the control of the various productions and growing demands for traceability in the sector, for live animals and for food products, mean that an advanced computer solution is more and more essential for process control.

With Sage X3, verticalized by Aritmos, we have business data in real time, which means that we can study them quickly and take measures on the spot

David Aparicio
Corsevilla Technical Specialist

From its beginnings, Corsevilla has been using a management solution developed to measure by a national supplier, “which offered a very closed work environment and never successfully covered all our needs”, says a spokesman in the organization. The shortcomings of this programme in fields such as analytical accounting and the control of traceability, difficulties in personalization and communication with other computer systems meant that, in 2006, Corsevilla considered buying a new management solution, more modern and better suited to their needs.

The specialists at Aritmos showed great dedication and professionalism in solving our doubts and needs

At that time, the organization got in touch with Aritmos, a computer services provider in the region whose experience in the sector had been commented on by neighbouring cooperatives. Aritmos, in turn, introduced them to the Sage X3 solution, verticalized for cooperatives, as the best option for their needs. Corsevilla assessed Sage X3, together with other solutions of prestige available in the market and, in mid-2006, finally decided on this solution, due as much to its functionalities, time and cost of installation, as to their confidence in the Aritmos team.

Corsevilla Farm

The cooperative took up the principal modules of the suite, from financial management, purchases and sales to stock management and they also bought the Abel Entreprise by Sage solution for management of their properties.

After a painstaking work of deployment, adaptation and training, with endless involvement by Aritmos and the professionals of the cooperative, on 2 January 2008 Sage X3 was started up in the organization.

Among the principal verticalizations produced by Aritmos are those specifically developed for the management of share capital, the management of veterinary prescriptions, control of double units in products with shrinkage (cheeses and cured sausages) and management of their sales of medicaments. Aritmos also integrated Sage X3 with the production programme in the feedstuffs plant, with the control application in the centre for classification of lambs and with the Corsevilla management programme for milk collection. As a result of that, information on all these solutions is automatically fed into the central ERP, allowing global control of the business and with all kinds of reports and statistics obtainable directly from the central system.

“Relations with the people from Aritmos throughout the process were very friendly. All their specialists showed great dedication and professionalism in solving our queries and needs”, underlined David Aparicio. At present, the Sage ERP verticalized by Aritmos is fully functioning in the cooperative, with 15 regular users in the different areas. The computer services provider deals with both support for the solution and Corsevilla's hardware and communications infrastructure, ensuring optimum function and exploitation.

Benefits achieved with the ERP


“The three greatest benefits of the deployment of Sage X3 verticalized by Aritmos in Corsevilla have been: greater facility in taking decisions, savings in time and costs and the improvements achieved in quality management”, says the organization's technical specialist. Specifically, in taking decisions, “now we have the business data in real time, which allows us to study them quickly and take measures on the spot”, he says. With the support of the Sage platform, Corsevilla today is also advancing towards greater control of traceability and fine-tuning another project on mobility.

At the level of specific functions, the management of analytical and budgetary accounting with the ERP solution has been very important to the organization. “We have very diverse business lines and for us it is a key factor to be able to have exhaustive control for each activity (making cheeses, marketing food products, providing services, supplies, etc.). This control also requires being able to combine and analyse large volumes of data, which would mean a tremendous effort if we did not have the ERP automatisms”, says David Aparicio. The Sage X3 capacities in the area of purchases also bring advances in analytical control.

In the sales field, on the other hand, “now we can easily personalise the screens for the various sales transactions (for example, the sale of a cheese or a service, which are very different). And, in fact, the lack of these capacities in our earlier programme made the commercial tasks much more difficult”, points out the organization's spokesman.

Sage X3 verticalized by Aritmos has also improved the control of traceability, above all with its facilities for stock control.

“With the X3, now, the management of batches and articles is much more fluid and reliable”, says David Aparicio. Thanks to Abel Entreprise, on the other hand, we have much more flexible control over additions and reductions in capital assets and their management has been integrated with the accounting.

With regard to the modules entirely developed by Aritmos, such as that for supplies to members, diesel oil and feedstuffs, or agricultural management, “these are essential functions for the management of our business. These modules now adequately cover our needs, since Aritmos was able to interpret and understand our requirements”, said the organization's spokesman.

“We consider that Sage X3 verticalized by Aritmos has covered our expectations practically at 100%, we are satisfied with the solution and we consider that, to a great degree, it will also be able to cover our future needs”, said David Aparicio.

Corsevilla, on the other hand, has not ceased to investigate the new possibilities offered by ICT for its business management. The organization is already appraising, together with Aritmos, the capacities of the Sage platform in CRM, electronic billing and documentary management, where the last could be very useful in quality control and in certification to ISO 9001. Among their future plans is offering their members access to their management system, so that the members themselves can consult and print their relevant documentation on-line. Another challenge for Corsevilla is to ensure continuous training for their users, as a guarantee for optimum use of the ERP.

The Benefits


  • An environment adaptable to the various sales transactions.
  • Much more fluid and reliable management of stocks.
  • Optimum management of vertical processes, such as control of share capital, veterinary prescriptions, and the double units in products with shrinkage.
  • Additional functions for the management of supplies to members, diesel oil, feedstuffs and agricultural management, all in the same Sage platform.
  • Greater facility for decision-taking.
  • Savings in time and costs.
  • Important improvement in quality management.
  • Exhaustive analytical and budgetary control per business line.
  • Facilities for the analysis of large volumes of data.
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