Agrosuper SA is a holding of Chilean food companies, particularly dedicated to the production, distribution and marketing of fresh and frozen pork, poultry, salmon and processed products. The last time has stood out for its permanent focus on innovation and linkage with the ecosystem integrating strategies open innovation to search for solutions to problems and/or challenges of the business strategy.
One of the solutions offered Innova360 is your software i360 that allows the management of innovation, whether internal or open. Together with Agrosuper, the platform was developed Accelerate AS Connect, That allowed implement in an agile, personalized and digital way a tool called "Reverse Pitch", in order to find the right suppliers that would provide solutions to the company's main challenges.
They were raised 14 troublemakers of the Supply Chain management, with cross-cutting issues such as logistics, international routing, compliance with the production plan, launch of new products, among others. in solo 3 weeks, received 83 proposals sent by more than 35 actors of the ecosystem, among which startups, universities, consultants, research centers and national and international technology-based companies stood out.
At the close of the call, each challenge launched by Agrosuper closed with 6 proposals on average for each one, which allowed it to nurture its portfolio and the immediate implementation of 3 pilots.
In the words of Sebastián Manzur, Head of Innovation at Agrosuper, "The AcelerAS Connect platform helped us a lot, starting because it is agile and intuitive, thus being able to digitize innovation and improve our processes, motivating collaboration among all Agrosuper collaborators."
