Supply chain, redesigned around the crop.
Post-harvest systems, cold-chain economics, traceability architecture, and logistics redesign — led by partners who have watched cold rooms fail at 2am and stood on loading docks before the 4am move.
Indian agri supply chains break in the middle. Farm-gate aggregation works; last-mile retail works. The middle — primary processing, cold storage, mid-haul refrigerated transport, consolidation, and the handshakes between them — is where shrinkage, working-capital drag, and customer dissatisfaction all concentrate. Government data and field audits consistently put fruit and vegetable post-harvest losses in the 15–30% band; in dairy and temperature-sensitive processed food, the losses are less visible but the margin destruction is comparable.
AgPro's supply chain practice exists to rebuild the middle. We approach it as an engineering problem first and a strategy problem second. Measurement comes before redesign. Operating reality comes before software. The audit trail comes before the traceability dashboard. Our partners have run aggregation networks, stood up cold chains for mid-sized produce businesses, and designed the traceability back-end for export-oriented programmes — so the recommendations we make are the recommendations we would implement ourselves.
Engagements range from 4-week audits (where is the shrinkage, which link is failing, which upgrade is worth the capex) to 6–12 month redesigns that cover facility sizing, route engineering, traceability architecture, and operating handover.
Six engagements.
- Post-harvest audit
- 3–4 weeks of field sampling, transit observation, temperature logging, and operator interviews. Output: shrinkage quantified by node, failure modes mapped, and a priority-sequenced intervention list.
- Cold-chain design
- Facility siting, sizing, and temperature-zone engineering. Route planning with capacity utilisation and dwell-time modelling. Capex plan with unit economics that clear a defensible IRR.
- Logistics redesign
- Network redesign for multi-node operations — primary collection, consolidation, hub, spoke. Carrier selection, rate negotiation, and SLA architecture written to the actual crop reality, not textbook assumptions.
- Traceability architecture
- Data model, capture points, GS1 / GLN / batch-code conventions, audit trail, and vendor selection. Co-owned implementation with the technology partner so the system reflects how your operators actually work.
- FPO / aggregation design
- Farmer-producer-organisation network architecture, aggregation incentives, quality-grading at the collection point, and primary-processing integration. Sized for states with genuine demand depth.
- Working-capital redesign
- Inventory, receivables, and payables rebuilt to shorten cash-conversion cycles. Seasonal-working-capital facility structured with banks we've worked with across agri lending.
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Clear answers before the call.
- The industry page is a sector lens — who we serve across aggregation, logistics, warehousing, and traceability. This service page is the advisory offering we deliver: post-harvest design, cold-chain economics, traceability architecture, logistics redesign. If you want to understand our sector depth, start with the industry page; if you want to scope an engagement, you're on the right page.
- Both. Greenfield cold-chain design for produce or dairy ventures — facility sizing, route planning, temperature-zone engineering, and unit economics — and optimization for operating networks where the question is which links to rebuild, which to outsource, and where the shrinkage is actually originating.
- Almost always starting with measurement, because operating teams routinely over-estimate losses in some nodes and under-estimate them in others. Our first phase is a 3-week field audit with sampling at key transit and storage points. Only then do we design interventions. This saves clients from paying to fix the wrong node.
- Yes — we design the traceability architecture (data model, capture points, GS1 / GLN / lot-tracking conventions, audit trail) and run the vendor-selection for the stack. We don't build the software ourselves, but we co-own the implementation with the technology partner so the system reflects the operating reality.