Endeavour Meats

The Challenge

As a new business entering the market,Endeavour Meats’ main objective was to start out fast and gain a foothold in the industry. They had to get their systems in place to quickly start handling shipments and were looking for a way to:

• Streamline their international trade execution and management, so they could scale up operations without having to rapidly hire and train resources
• Avoid steep operational costs
• Ensure a holistic view of their export supply chain for better management
• Contracting with both customers and suppliers and have one view of customers
• Understand the profitability of each and every shipments in order to maximise bottom-line

Initially, they considered developing their own international trade management system, with largely manual execution processes. But they soon realised that this idea brought its own set of challenges – high cost, major diversion from their core business, and long implementation time.

Additionally, in the small team of people that Endeavour Meats started out with, the task of managing the export supply chain fell on the sales folks. From order management to contracts, to shipping, export and compliance documentation and updates, everything had to be managed by a handful of people. And doing it all manually would make it almost impossible to scale up at the pace they wanted.

Why ImpexDocs

Once it became clear that manual processes for global trade management were not going to deliver the kind of scale, savings or ease-of-operations they wanted, Endeavour Meats was ready to adopt a software solution. And that’s where ImpexDocs stepped in.

The founders at Endeavour Meats had previously engaged with ImpexDocs products, and decided to evaluate how it fits in with their goals for the new business. A custom demo and detailed discussions later, they were ready to adopt the ImpexDocs software solution, primarily because:

• It brought in a range of functionalities that were crucial to their business – meat exports
• It streamlined export supply chain logistics, allowing them to optimize, automate, and manage operations end-to-end
• The ImpexDocs team understood their requirements and worked to deliver a quick implementation and deployment
• The software solutions offered great value for money, eliminating several time and cost intensive manual processes

The Solution

After implementing ImpexDocs’ cloud-based solutions, Endeavour Meats began with simply putting orders and getting used to all the features of the platform. The team was able to:

• Issue purchase and sales orders
• Generate Export Declaration numbers
• Issue loadout advice to Suppliers
• Generate Complete Set of Export Documents
• Obtain Certificates of Origin from Chamber electronically
• Obtain health certificates electronically, with no need for costly mails, print outs and follow ups
• Obtain management reports
• Sync their accounting software to turn commercial invoices into accounting documents
• Develop the right set of 100% compliant export documents based on importing country requirements
• Track all document and shipment status, and have it accessible to all stakeholders
• Understand profits for every shipments at the item level

All these processes were being managed by a single, unified cloud-based platform. Since the platform is easy to use, the team also required less training from the ImpexDocs team and were soon able to leverage the solution to deliver significant results.

The Results

ImpexDocs helped Endeavour Meats to become an agile business that was ready to hit the ground running. With the ImpexDocs software solution in place,they were able to:

• Scale up from handling 0 to 287 shipments in a span of six months
• Handle end-to-end export supply chain logistics, easing up the burden on sales teams
• Handle complete export documentation with only three people engaged
• Save time and cost across the export supply chain
• Achieve 73% savings on the systems and tools used for export process management systems

With all these challenges taken care of, the team at Endeavour Meats now focuses on increasing their shipments and scaling up their growth. They are also working closely with the ImpexDocs team to get solutions developed for certain new requirements.

And finally, the fact that ImpexDocs software solution has delivered great results for Endeavour Meats is evident from the fact that they are already recommending ImpexDocs to their peers in the industry.