8 years later, BEVOLTA is betting everything on collaboration to align supply teams.

The co-founder of BEVOLTA discusses some of the latest developments presented at the Supply Chain Event which demonstrate the maturity of this solution launched 8 years ago.

— Is Bevolta still a startup?

« After 8 years of experience we are not really a startup anymore, indeed! There is certainly the culture of innovation that irrigates us daily, but we are now a mature solution that has proven itself, both comprehensive in its core business and inherently evolving. Innovation is now accompanied by experience. This results in a very solid solution.

— What innovations would you like to highlight at the upcoming Supply Chain Event in Paris?

The BEVOLTA platform has evolved considerably and has been enriched with numerous features to meet the specific needs of our clients, but there is one element we have particularly focused on lately: the notion of collaboration.

Initially, we certainly had an expert tool that produced results, it was clean, but we tended to forget that people work in teams, that some actions can be taken by one person while contradictory decisions come from others... It is a major obstacle we wanted to address absolutely. Thus, to align the teams and ensure that all decisions are centralized and tracked, we have integrated collaborative features that are now an integral part of our tools.

« We now have access to why a particular decision was made by a particular person, who must initiate the next step, what the priorities were on a specific date »

Camille Wanty.

For example, if BEVOLTA suggests that I place 100 orders and I decide, given the context, to only place 80, we will be able to track this decision and understand why it was made. This ability to place each decision back in its context without losing information constitutes a major advancement in the use of the tool. We no longer waste time searching for information, we can easily recontextualize the decisions that have been made, integrate informal data that we usually communicate through other channels – and which are mostly lost – to understand the actions that have been taken and thus make the best possible decisions going forward.

We thereby concretely improve the organization and coordination within the planning teams.

— This focus on collaboration, does it provide a platform that fully meets the needs of a Supply team?

Yes, and at multiple levels, because the operational staff document why they made certain decisions, which allows the executive level to understand the actions, in context, by whom and why.

— Beyond this collaborative approach at the core of BEVOLTA, are there any other News you would like to share?

The order management tool – VOLTA Order – and the supplier portal, fully configurable to adapt to user habits, are another major evolution of the platform. We drew inspiration from tools like NOTION that offer great flexibility to adapt screens to each individual's way of working. Everything is customizable, you can sort, group, create views with different filters, all in a « no-code » spirit to offer ever more capabilities to the user. This approach has been applied to all our tools.

Security: ensuring the scalability of the technical infrastructure

We process sensitive data, therefore we always ensure that the infrastructure remains 100% secure regardless of the evolution of the scope. It is part of the prerequisites to be able to grow with the company. The infrastructure must follow, it is an integral part of the service to offer a scalable solution.

Connectivity +

The challenge is not so much to propose importing data from an existing system, it is the ability to easily integrate with things other than an ERP, that is, any type of architecture, from EXCEL to e-commerce or any BI. We are inherently integrated into a toolbox ecosystem destined to evolve.»