The Sector and the IT's

Countries integration in the European Union, market globalization and the fast technological evolution of the last decades, lead the several sectors and markets to reach high levels of competitiveness. The Agro-Food sector is not an exception. Its maturity and development involve a substantial reduction of profit margins, associated with the production and commercialization of agro-food products. Today, as never, companies earn to the second, the penny and the gram.

For maintaining a sustainable business, it is imperative to consider the combination of the technological aspects and the emergent standards of production, quality and food safety control. Now, more than ever, an efficient management requires the use of data processing systems that allow not only faster decision making, but also greater profits in competitiveness.

The incorporation of these technologies, at the Food Industry level, allows a systematic and consistent control of all activities involved in food production, making it indispensable to consolidate the evolution process in the several management activities.

In this framework, an intelligible information management system must comprise the following characteristics: (i) Automatic Integration of data and machines; (ii) Flexibility for different industrial settings; (iii) Real-time information; (iv) Reliability; and (v) Fast Implementation.

A major goal of all FoodInTech solutions is to consider each client as unique, being flexible to his particular needs, instead of obliging him to an immeasurable restructuring scheme. The system must reflect a clear and exact way of how agro-food activities are processed, clearly associating the good manufacturing practices of the sector.

Information and communication technologies are, nowadays, considered one of the most important drivers of change in the food sector, representing, therefore, a high level competitive advantage.