Industry: Fish I Software: CSB Industry ERP
Agroittica Lombarda, a renowned caviar producer, established a solid collaboration with ERP provider CSB-System to enhance its digitalization efforts while maintaining high quality and ensuring traceability in its processes. Agroittica Lombarda’s commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement has driven its success in the global caviar market. This customer story explores how the implementation of CSB-System’s ERP solution enabled Agroittica Lombarda to streamline its specialized production and business processes, and to improve transparency, quality control, and traceability.
Agroittica Lombarda, founded in the 1970s, started out with utilizing thermal energy from other production processes for aquaculture, in line with the principles of circular economy. While initially centered on eel production and experimenting with various fish species, the company gained global recognition as a sustainable caviar producer when it began breeding sturgeon. The commitment to innovation and integrating various stages of the fish supply chain into its production process has been a driving force for its continuous business development.
The collaboration between Agroittica and CSB-System
In 2002, Agroittica Lombarda embraced the ERP solution offered by CSB-System, becoming one of the first fishing industry companies in Italy to do so. The implementation process took just over two months, aiming to rationalize and bring transparency to the highly specialized production and business processes. Over the years, the Lombardian company and the software company have made significant progress together.
Key aspects of the ERP implementation
CSB’s ERP system manages several key processes for Agroittica Lombarda, including purchasing with order entry and quantity and quality control, inventory management with real-time stock control, sales from order entry to invoicing, and production with slaughter, processing, smoking, and packaging. The system also integrates with price labeling lines, providing the necessary information for multilingual labeling compliant with national and international standards. Through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), the CSB-System ensures distribution control without data redundancy. The software also supports configurable statistics, generating customized reports for management on a daily and weekly basis. The sales statistics derived from the ERP system play a vital role in production planning and processing reorder suggestions by comparing information with historical data and customer actions during the period.
Guaranteed traceability and quality control
Agroittica Lombarda pioneered the implementation of rigorous health control technologies such as cleanrooms and laminar flow hoods in caviar production. They also experimented with new techniques for objective caviar evaluation. All traceability data is captured and managed within the CSB-System, ensuring that each production batch is identifiable and traceable throughout the supply chain. From raw materials to finished products, including packaging, batch assignment is maintained. The CSB-System also facilitates quality control throughout the entire production cycle, both for incoming goods and the product flow within the facility.
Production Management with M-ERP
Despite the integration of new technological solutions, Agroittica Lombarda maintains a strong connection to tradition and craftsmanship. The company continues to manually shell, wash, and package sturgeon eggs. Mario Pazzaglia, the company’s scientific consultant, emphasizes their commitment to understanding and improving every detail while constantly seeking useful information for new insights. To ensure the reliability and usability of data, Agroittica Lombarda relies on the CSB-System for managing the digital aspects of caviar production. Each production step is analyzed and quantified, with every batch evaluated and classified multiple times until it is sold. The M-ERP functionality provided by CSB-System enables online quality control, minimizing the possibility of human errors and ensuring traceability. The CSB-System also supports customized logistics processes through intuitive user interfaces for warehouse operations, order picking, inventory management, and palletization. This approach guarantees traceability, user-friendliness, time savings, mobility, and control throughout the logistics operations.
Timely cost control
By integrating the CSB-System with time tracking software, Agroittica Lombarda incorporates production time into cost calculations. Effective procurement management and production cost accounting enable reliable cost control for management. Evaluation indices enable the company to assess the success of the production process and make informed decisions.
Global leader through continuous improvement
The collaboration between Agroittica Lombarda and CSB-System has been instrumental in advancing digitalization, ensuring quality, and enhancing traceability in caviar production. By implementing CSB-System’s ERP solution, Agroittica Lombarda streamlined its specialized processes, improved transparency, and established robust quality control measures. The comprehensive system allows for end-to-end traceability, from raw materials to the final product, and ensures effective cost control. The company´s commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, combined with CSB-System’s advanced ERP capabilities, has solidified the position as a global leader in sustainable caviar production.