Agri-Food
From field to plate
Digital transformation serving the industry
With a deep understanding of the agri-food sector’s unique challenges, Talsom partners with you at every stage, from cultivation to consumption, to optimize your costs and build a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable value chain.
Practical solutions to your specific challenges
Amid the pressures of climate change, traceability, automation, and evolving consumer expectations, companies need to rethink their practices to stay competitive.
Whether you’re looking to innovate, optimize your technology costs, or implement new systems, Talsom helps you reduce risk and maximize return on investment.
Cost volatility and margin pressure
- Rising energy, transportation, and agricultural input prices are compressing margins and weakening competitiveness. Short product shelf lives, variable yields, and losses add pressure, while fragmented data limits true visibility.
Control your costs to protect your margins
- We help you optimize your processes and deploy digital performance management tools that provide clear visibility into your costs, yields, and losses—so you can identify efficiency drivers, prioritize high-impact actions, and strengthen your financial resilience.
Traceability and regulatory requirements
- Food safety standards and expectations for transparency require rigorous tracking of batches, origins, ingredients, and best-before dates—from your suppliers through to your customers. Without reliable traceability, audits become more complex, recalls become more costly, and sustainability is harder to demonstrate.
Ensure simple, effective, end-to-end traceability
- We help you implement integrated, interoperable systems that ensure complete traceability. By aligning your processes and data with your objectives, you simplify compliance, speed incident investigations, and reduce both risk and recall costs.
Sustainability and climate adaptation
- Climate variability, pressure on water and energy resources, and rising expectations to reduce waste and your carbon footprint are intensifying. When efforts are poorly coordinated, they can drive up costs and weaken your reputation.
Embed sustainability at the core of your operations
- Our services take ESG considerations and your industrial realities into account. We help you build a pragmatic strategy that connects operational efficiency with sustainability objectives, with clear priorities, tracking metrics, and a roadmap to deliver on your ESG ambitions.
Technical debt and plant modernization
- Ageing, siloed systems slow operations. Between Excel, fragile integrations, and scattered data, automation stalls, unplanned downtime increases, and maintenance costs escalate—alongside heightened cybersecurity risk. The complexity of upgrades delays projects and stalls innovation.
Modernize your systems to gain agility
- Talsom structures and prioritizes your modernization to guide the selection and implementation of the right solutions (ERP, automation, AI). By aligning processes and data, and structuring governance to maximize adoption, you reduce your technical debt, secure your operations, and prepare your plants to evolve at the pace of your organization.
Labour shortages and job transformation
- The lack of qualified staff disrupts production and increases team workload. Turnover and retirements drain know-how, while concerns about automation hinder adoption and slow operations.
Develop skills and mobilize your teams
- We structure upskilling and adoption through role mapping, targeted training pathways, and pragmatic change management. Your teams build proficiency, technology integration accelerates, and engagement strengthens.
Rapid shifts in consumer preferences
- Demand for organic, local, healthy, and alternative products is evolving quickly, shortening product lifecycles and forcing industry players to innovate continuously. Without clear visibility into market signals (sales, customers, distributors), it becomes difficult to prioritize innovation, adjust formats and pricing, and avoid stockouts or surplus.
Align product innovation with real demand
- We help connect innovation, go-to-market, and customer data to rapidly adapt your product range. By structuring governance, portfolio management, and prioritization criteria—and synchronizing with your S&OP plans—you accelerate decision-making, reduce time to market, and focus resources on your top-performing products.
Our Services
With a deep understanding of on-the-ground realities and a multidisciplinary expertise, we design tailored solutions adapted to every phase of the project, from planning to execution. And because successful transformation starts with people, we place the human element at the heart of everything we do.
Industry expertise
Agri-food isn’t just one link. Seeds, cultivation, production, processing, logistics, distribution, sales: each stage has its own challenges—and significant potential for transformation. That’s why Talsom offers tailored solutions for every link in the chain, whether it’s optimizing your operations, structuring and unlocking the value of your data, or mobilizing your teams around new technologies and AI.
In agri-food, profit margins are very thin. The first priority is always cost reduction. The watchword: optimize production. And technology helps make that happen.
Working with living systems means accepting a degree of unpredictability. You can plan, but you can’t control everything. The lifecycle of agri-food products requires testing, observing how things perform over time, and managing uncertainties.
Adopting more standard solutions means letting go of some of what you’ve mastered. It’s normal for that to feel daunting. Our role is to ease the transition, reassure teams, and show what these new tools deliver: reliability, interoperability, and longevity.
Our insights
FAQ
Because the sector faces mounting margin pressure, heightened traceability and compliance requirements, growing consumer demand for transparency, and significant volatility in costs and volumes. Digital transformation improves operational efficiency, reduces losses and stockouts, secures quality, and enables real-time performance management. It also accelerates product innovation and strengthens collaboration with suppliers and distributors. At Talsom, we help you target the highest-value use cases, structure your data, and deploy the tools that support your business objectives.
Begin with a capabilities and architecture assessment: inventory your systems, map data flows, identify pain points in production and maintenance, and assess risks (system obsolescence, cybersecurity, etc.). From there, build a roadmap that combines quick wins (machine connectivity, sensors, data standardization) with foundational initiatives (systems, technologies, governance). Change management and upskilling are essential to maximize outcomes. Talsom helps you frame, prioritize, and select the right solutions, while putting in place the processes that secure and accelerate modernization.
By embedding ESG objectives into day-to-day operations: measure your footprint (energy, water, waste), reduce losses and waste, optimize formulations, improve maintenance, and strengthen the eco-design of your packaging. Traceability of materials and lots simplifies compliance and demonstrates sustainability. Data and dashboards help track gains and direct investments to the right places. Talsom integrates ESG considerations into our support and builds a roadmap with you that connects operational savings, compliance, and measurable impact—without adding complexity to your operations.
By strengthening cost and yield management: analyze profitability by product or customer, track losses and scrap, optimize formulations and formats, improve yield rates (material, energy, labour), and automate repetitive tasks. On the planning side, a rigorous, integrated approach—supported by reliable data and scenarios (price, mix, capacity, energy)—enables faster, better-informed decisions. Talsom supports process optimization and the implementation of metrics and dashboards to identify efficiency levers and prioritize actions with the greatest impact on your margins.
Each type of system serves a specific need: ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) for overall management, MES (Manufacturing Execution System) for plant execution, and QMS (Quality Management System) or LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) for quality. There is no single solution that covers every need; the key is selecting the right tools and integrating them effectively with your processes. Solution-agnostic, we start from your objectives and regulatory requirements to define clear criteria, compare options, and validate their fit with shop-floor reality. Talsom helps you select the most suitable, scalable solution and plan a successful implementation with sustained adoption by your teams.
