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Elocal HUB Operational Group: Digital technological innovations focused on customer experience to improve the commercial competitiveness of traditional extensive livestock farming and promote short distribution circuits.

  • Type Operational group
  • Status In progress
  • Execution 2024 -2027
  • Assigned Budget 586.120,00 €
  • Scope Supraautonómico
  • Autonomous community Castilla y León; Extremadura; Madrid, Comunidad de
  • Main source of financing PEPAC 2023-2027
Abstract
Design and implementation of a short online sales channel in the form of an open and free-access marketplace, where consumers and B2B from HORECA can directly interact with 100% native breed operators through “virtual stores”, a digital e-commerce platform that manages the customer experience of the marketplace and, through an omnichannel protocol based on QR codes, introduces the traditional channel into the online world, to show the customer the livestock of origin and an intelligent interpretation of some attributes relevant to the purchasing process and the formation of consumer preferences (animal welfare indicators, extensification, etc.). In addition, provide the platform with a customer relationship management tool (CRM), automate marketing (social-commerce, banners, etc.) in the three phases - pre-sale, sale, after-sales -, an omnichannel tool based on competitive benchmarking and changes in purchasing preferences, and indicators (KPIs) that allow the activity of the model to be evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, in order to control and manage the business.
Description

With the project's success, an e-commerce app will be launched for products with the 100% native breed logo, a consumer information system based on computer vision, and a control and management system focused on the omnichannel customer experience using QR codes.

Contextual description

Digitalization offers opportunities to address some of these short-channel and e-commerce trade challenges and improve the efficiency and sustainability of extensive livestock farming in Spain by improving resource management, animal health, efficiency, and profitability.

Objectives

Develop a digital e-commerce platform that manages the customer experience in a short online sales channel in the form of a marketplace, based on artificial intelligence (AI) and vision algorithms. Digitalization offers opportunities to address some of these challenges and improve the efficiency and sustainability of extensive livestock farming in Spain by improving resource management, animal health, efficiency, and profitability.

Results

The project's outputs are targeted at all existing farms with local breeds in Spain, which in 2021 numbered more than 94,000 (ARCA, 2022). We must also consider that the computer vision-based consumer information system could be transferred to all types of extensive livestock farming with minor technical adjustments, so the potential users of this specific innovation could be 500,000 companies (MAPA, 2021). We estimate that one in two farms will adopt the digital platform with the completion of the project.

Contact information
  • Coordinator/entity name: ROYAL SPANISH FEDERATION OF SELECTED LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATIONS (RFEAGAS)
  • Postal address: C/ CASTELLÓ, 45-2º IZDA, 280001. Madrid
  • Coordinator/entity email: juanmaria.gallardo@rfeagas.es
  • Telephone: 915759763
Coordinators
  • REAL FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ASOCIACIONES DE GANADO SELECTO (RFEAGAS)
Beneficiaries
  • REAL FEDERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE ASOCIACIONES DE GANADO SELECTO (RFEAGAS)
Outsourced
  • ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE CRIADORES DE CERDO IBÉRICO (ACERIBER)
  • ASOCIACIÓN NACIONAL DE CRIADORES DE GANADO MERINO
  • ASOCIACIÓN GANECA - AMIGOS DE LA GALLINA CASTELLANA NEGRA
  • REAL ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE CRIADORES DE GANADO VACUNO SELECTO DE RAZA AVILEÑA-NEGRA IBÉRICA (RAEANI)