How ONLYOFFICE helps to build sustainable supply chains

Agriplace, dedicated to fostering responsible and sustainable supply chains in the food and beverages industry, has integrated ONLYOFFICE Docs into its ecosystem. This decision, driven by the need for comprehensive file viewing, searching, and editing capabilities, has significantly streamlined operations and helped Agriplace enhance its services for both buyers and farmers. Helene van den Dries, CPO, and Rob van Diepen, Tech Lead, share their experience.

About Agriplace

Started as a solution aiming to help farmers produce safely and sustainably while reducing time spent on paperwork, Agriplace is devoted to empowering businesses in the food and beverages industry to create responsible and sustainable supply chains that benefit both people and the planet. The project helps buyers, including retailers, wholesalers, and food service companies, gain comprehensive insights into their supply chains, focusing on social, sustainability, and food safety practices of suppliers. The team believes that these processes can be simplified by establishing a smooth sharing network that eliminates duplicated efforts. Additionally, they assist farmers in preparing for and obtaining certifications more easily, addressing the increasing administrative burden from new legislation and evolving buyer requirements.

Discovering ONLYOFFICE

Team Agriplace discovered ONLYOFFICE while searching the web for a solution that could preview all types of file formats seamlessly, with the potential for future editing capabilities. This led them to ONLYOFFICE Docs Developer, which perfectly matched all the needs.

Integrating ONLYOFFICE into Agriplace Ecosystem

Integrating ONLYOFFICE into the company’s ecosystem was driven by their need to provide users with the ability to view and search through all file formats without exception. This feature is incredibly important for all users, especially for farmers who require the ability to edit files as part of their certification process. ONLYOFFICE met all these requirements, making it an essential tool in the ecosystem.

Helene van den Dries, Chief Product Officer at Agriplace, shared her thoughts on ONLYOFFICE:

Using ONLYOFFICE saves us a great amount of time versus building it ourselves, allowing us to focus on our core product. Besides, ONLYOFFICE is easy to embed in our company ecosystem and meets the requirements for both of our value propositions.

Implementation and Customization

Setting up ONLYOFFICE using the Docker image was straightforward, thanks to the comprehensive documentation provided. The Agriplace team found extremely useful the numerous customization options provided by the platform. The assistance was highly effective in guiding the team through the setup while they faced some issues.

Getting ONLYOFFICE up and running through the Docker implementation was really easy with the documentation. There are a lot of helpful customization options. We had some implementation issues with some of them but then support was very helpful in getting these options set up how we needed them.

says Rob van Diepen, Tech lead at Agriplace.

Building a Global compliance platform

Through digital transformation, the project simplifies agricultural compliance for farmers and buyers, making it affordable and accelerating the shift to sustainable production and trade. Viewing, searching, and editing files are vital element, and ONLYOFFICE’s features perfectly meet the company’s needs.

Helene van den Dries indicates that ONLYOFFICE is particularly useful for simple editing of Word and Excel documents, and they are likely to recommend ONLYOFFICE to others, based on specific use cases, though simpler alternatives might be available for those only needing a viewing solution.