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ApprOly: On the Road to Digital Transformation

Olymel
ApprOly a progressive web app for Olymel

OVERVIEW

For over a year, nventive has been supporting Olymel in its digital transformation initiative within the live animal supply department.

The first step was to design a solution capable of centralizing the digitization of processes with its external partners. With the ApprOly progressive web app (PWA), Olymel wanted to enhance immediacy, improve the integrity and centralization of information.

Olymel

A few figures illustrate the major scale of this company: present in 65 countries and bringing together 12,000 employees, Olymel is the leading pork producer in Canada, generating $4.5 billion in revenue. Their vision? “Feeding the world with passion.”

Technologies

Frontend
React
Backend
.NET
Cloud
AWS

Services

  • Consulting
  • UX Design
  • Web Development
  • Mobile Development

Collaborate to create

Our experts first familiarized themselves with process challenges, then the needs of each type of user.

This led to the creation of ApprOly, a PWA solution designed to support Olymel’s future initiatives in the live animal supply sector. 

Did you know? 

PWAs offer a user experience close to native applications on mobile, allowing direct installation and the use of most smartphone resources. They simplify deployment by avoiding the constraints and delays imposed by app stores while reducing costs. Indeed, a PWA works on both mobile and web, eliminating the need to develop two separate versions. Moreover, maintenance costs are lower, as a PWA is not subject to the specific requirements of mobile operating systems, making updates and compatibility easier. 

Olymel progressive web app requisition form

Centralized and synchronized information

Operating with several third parties, it was essential to create a solution capable of managing the load requests issued by Olymel to its numerous transport partners. By choosing to create it as a PWA, the ApprOly portal can track each request and offer the corresponding interfaces to each contributor, adapting to the device they use. 

Taking the example of requisition forms, the portal simultaneously allows users to: 

  • View load requests 
  • Create requisitions 
  • View the list of requisitions 
  • View the details of a requisition 
  • Execute requisitions 

A PWA that adapts to all mobility needs

Thanks to a solid governance structure and an excellent level of involvement from Olymel’s stakeholders, our experts were very quickly able to understand precisely the needs of each type of user. Stakeholders were involved at every stage of the process to ensure that the portal met their needs and constraints. 

They quickly identified the need to provide the portal on multiple types of devices: in desktop format for tracking load requests initiated by Olymel and their processing into requisitions by transporters; and in mobile format for the execution of requisitions by truck drivers, sometimes without an internet connection, ensuring that the solution is available in offline mode. A PWA solution meets this specific need while also allowing the use of native mobile features, such as notifications, for example. 

Olymel progressive web app offline capabilities

“In addition to being less expensive for Olymel than a mobile application, the PWA fully supports all the necessary native mobile functionalities while offering the same advantages and performance on the web. We aimed to translate the complexity of a reality into a product that is simple, adapted to everyone, and accessible everywhere.”

Christelle Lopez
Manager, Product Owner
Olymel screens of progressive web app ApprOly
The first step of digital transformation

The ApprOly portal integrates perfectly with Olymel’s existing and migrating systems.

It was designed to support various processes with its partners in the future. 

Charles-Olivier Levasseur explains: “The ApprOly project clearly illustrates the benefits of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) approach. Even though its digital transformation is of a very large scale, it allows Olymel’s supply chain to start quickly, within a reasonable budget, while considering the long-term vision.

In this case, Olymel chose to establish solid foundations by starting with a key process in its live animal supply chain, upon which it can build a powerful ecosystem of complementary solutions.

Olymel progressive web app client portal

Conclusion

A successful launch

Since its launch in early June 2024 with Transbec S.E.C., one of Olymel’s poultry transport partners, the results are undeniable: 

  • 100% adoption rate in the first three months of launch 
  • 1 hour and 30 minutes saved per day for the transporter 

Thank you to Olymel for their continued trust and quality collaboration! 

Olymel progressive web app desktop platform

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