Case Study: Growers Association Fossa Eugenia achieves a solid, scalable IT landscape with Aptean Food & Beverage ERP (Foodware 365 Edition)

An IT landscape that’s solid as a rock at Growers Association

Fossa Eugenia is a 34-member growers association based in Venlo, the Netherlands, experiencing rapid growth in sales, membership and product range while supplying wholesalers, supermarkets and processors. Facing sky-high retailer demands and a need for better insight, the organization outgrew its legacy ERP and required a sector-specific solution that could handle growers’ unique workflows and tighter supply-chain visibility.

Fossa re-implemented Aptean Food & Beverage ERP (Foodware 365 Edition) with Schouw Informatisering, integrating a growers portal for weekly forecasts, EDI order assignment, customer-specific labeling and local grower coordination. The single-supplier approach and long-standing partnership enabled a fast, pragmatic rollout and streamlined operations—improving visibility, simplifying support, scaling with the business and even allowing a shared portal with another association—while ongoing projects (such as quality reporting) keep the platform future-ready.

Fossa Eugenia

Ton Holthuijsen

Advisor