🧭 Context
At Les Nouveaux Affineurs, freshness is everything: fresh plant-based products, short shelf lives, and strict traceability.
Until recently, production management relied on scattered Excel files for supplies, stock tracking, inventories, and non-conformities.
This system worked… as long as the team was small. But with growth, tracking lots, coordinating purchases, and managing quality became increasingly difficult.
The solution: centralize, automate, and make daily operations reliable.
❗ Challenges
Daily management relied heavily on Excel:
- Teams spent hours cross-checking files for stock levels and lot selection based on shelf life
- Purchase requests were manually tracked via email
- Production, quality, and logistics were siloed
- Manual inventories led to errors and friction
Result: slow responsiveness, complex planning, and poor visibility across operations.
🛠️ Solution
To streamline operations, Les Nouveaux Affineurs centralized production, quality, logistics, and purchasing in Kostango.
Custom configuration enabled:
- ✅ Automatic lot selection based on shelf life for optimal consumption
- ✅ Real-time stock updates after each withdrawal
- ✅ Automated purchase request workflows based on amount and type
- ✅ Non-conformity reporting and resolution directly in the platform
- ✅ Fully autonomous inventories linked to existing order management software
All information is centralized and accessible, allowing teams to coordinate efficiently and make decisions faster.
✅ Results
Within weeks, the transformation was visible:
- 🥛 100% of withdrawals aligned with expiration dates, eliminating waste
- 📊 Real-time tracking of 250+ stock movements per month, giving full operational visibility
- ⏱️ Saved 2 hours/day on stock and supply tracking, freeing time for value-added tasks
- ⚡ Quality non-conformities resolved twice as fast
- 📦 100% autonomous inventories performed directly on the shop floor with full reliability
