1. eFoodChain project
Bruno Prépin

2. Fresh fruits and vegetables
Stimulating innovation in the food supply-chain through smart use of ICT: assisting SMEs participate in digital supply chains in the single market
Fresh fruits and vegetables
Dairy products
Cereals

3. eFoodchain objectives
Conduct a market analysis to assess current utilization of ICT and e-commerce solutions in the agro food supply chain : published in August 2012
Make an inventory of trade digital food supply chain and agriculture and establish a framework
Implement pilot projects in Europe to validate this framework
Promote the dissemination of all solutions developed throughout the project
Organize a European conference to present the project results in 2014

4. eFoodChain schedule

5. E-document pilot

6. E-document objectives
Implement e-invoicing and dematerialization of all exchanged documents between cooperatives and their members.
Provide cooperative members a complete paperless solution for all documents issued by the cooperative that is easy to use
Use of existing cooperative extranets as interface for document consultation
Cooperative
Member farmers
Extranet
Accountants

7. Current documentary process
Cooperative
Accountant
EDI file with invoice data
Invoices duplicates
Paper form of invoices and documents
Paper form of invoices and documents
Farmers
Extranet
On-line consultation of duplicates

8. Target : technical architecture
Accountants
INVOIC EDI message (UN/CEFACT) 1
Farmers
Prestataire dématérialisation
Electronic signatures for the cooperative and farmers
Managing signatures certificates
Secure archiving of invoices and documents
Indexing documents
Access to consultation through the portal and web services 5
PDF + indexation file 1
On-line consultation of documents 4
Alerts / Reporting
Extranet 2
10 years
(invoices)
Cooperative
Cooperative
Member farmers
Web service
IT Provider web portal 3 3
sending an to warn of the presence of a new document on the Extranet

9. Partners and users

10. Writing of specifications Pilots implementation
Schedule
2012
2013
2014
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Fev
Mar
Avr
Mai
Juin
Juillet
Aout
Working sessions
Writing of specifications
Call for tender 7
Responses 15
Legal group
IT provider selection
Contractualization
Pilot phase
Assessment
Deployment
Working sessions
Writing of specifications
Sept.-Dec. 2012
IT provider selection
Contractualization
Jan.-June 2013
Pilots implementation
June

11. Key success factors and benefits
Real needs from the farmers and the cooperatives
Big money savings
farmers already connected to extranets: a solution easy to deploy and to implement !
Very easy to implement for cooperatives
Very easy use for farmers
Project part of a sustainable development approach
Paper invoice or document
Electronic invoice or document
0,60-0,80 €/ invoice
0,12-0,20 €/ invoice
(depending on the volume)

12. Key success factors and benefits
E-document
Cooperative
1000 farmers
50 documents
(per farmer/year)
Price :
0,8€
per document
0,12 to 0,20€ €
6 000 € to €
Paper
80 % savings

13. Implementaion of similar project in Italy
Partnership with farmers' union to implement an e-document pilot between a cooperative and its producers of beet pulp

14. Thank you for your attention !