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.

“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.

• 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.