DUTCH FLOWER GROUP AND CERTIFEYE DIGITALISE GROWER CERTIFICATES

Growers can now easily upload their certificates to the Certifeye Wallet, at no cost to themselves. Certifeye takes full care of monitoring validity periods and sending reminders when certificates are due to expire. This means growers can respond to the many requests they get to provide certificates, simply by forwarding a link to the Wallet. With this, access to certification is now much easier throughout the supply chain. “This demands minimal effort”, explains Fred Vahlkamp of Certifeye. “Customers only have to subscribe to a supplier’s Wallet to automatically get notified when new certificates are added.” Growers whose certificates are fully in order are marked green in the overview used by DFG companies’ administrations. The platform fully looks after the processing of and communication of all these certificates.

Raimon Loman: “We expect to activate around a thousand Wallets in the next few weeks. We’ll be assisting our growers by placing all the certificates currently known in our administration into Certifeye Wallets. We’ll then invite each grower to check their Wallet and take ownership of it. By providing this service to our growers, completely free of charge, we are making an investment which will save us time in the future while further digitalising our processes. Having reliable insights into our suppliers’ statuses is exactly where we want to be.” Raising a symbolic glass, Fred Vahlkamp concludes: “When all the parties involved keep their affairs up-to-date, everyone’s workload is smaller; the platform takes care of the rest. We are very happy with the result of an intensive cooperation with DFG. That’s something worth toasting.”

Iris de Waal (Administrative Assistant at Bloom, part of DFG) and Marlies Verbruggen (Account Manager at Certifeye) setting up the first 1,200 DFG grower accounts.