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Summary

An Icelandic SME is offering a comprehensive production control and order management software for the fish processing and fish trading industry. The system handles all operations from ordering, producing, selling and shipping the product. It can either be installed on-site or hosted online and is the only known system in this category capable of that. The company is seeking industrial partners for commercial agreement with technical assistance, joint venture agreement or license agreement.

Full description

The system has been developed with input and collaboration from numerous fish processing and seafood trading companies using the application to better manage their business  from receiving of raw material through detailed processing and inventory control to dispatching the products. The system is designed to enhance automation at each stage while providing an advanced traceability feature to meet the demanding needs required by todays marketplace.

The system is scalable to any size of business from one person trading company or a single scale packing solution to multi-site processing operations with a need for a manufacturing execution system and advanced track & tracing.

The program is mainly designed using open source technology such as the PHP programming language, MySql database and the Linux platform. Other scripts and technology are as well used for application specific purposes. The user interface is web-based where the user doesnt need to install any application on the computer but can use a web browser to view and operate the system which usually is run on hosted servers.

The company has already gained a proven reputation for designing and producing high quality, innovative hardware and software products for the fish processing industry and is represented with highly experienced individuals from the technical side of the seafood industry.

Innovative Aspects

- Can be installed on-site or as a hosted service.
- Can be implemented as a full MES system ( Manufacturing Execution System) for fish producers or in a modular way.
- Browser interface - easy to implement - easy to learn.
Feature loaded, including:
- Receipt of raw material
- Inventory control
- Production
- Catch weight registration, locations and movement of stock
- Production planning
- Yield calculation
- Quality control
- Packing & palletizing
- Label design
- Trading ( Purchase & sales)
- Customer handling
- Dispatching
- Full Traceability
- Operation monitoring

Partner expertise sought:

- Type of partner sought:
Industry.

- Specific area of activity of the partner:
System integrator or solutions provider able to work along with the end-user. Also software and hardware manufacturers working within the seafood and food industry.

- Task to be performed by the partner sought:
Integration, customizing solutions, marketing support. Possibly joint software development for specific customer implementations.