GeneXus Consulting

The Ventanilla Única de Comercio Exterior (One-stop Window for Foreign Trade) in Uruguay was born as a project led by the National Customs Authority and the Interministerial Commission for Foreign Trade Affairs.

VUCE is a mechanism for simplifying foreign trade by optimizing and unifying data and documentation at a single point of entry through electronic means. It is used to comply with all import, export, and transit procedures.

We developed a system that integrates more than 20 government agencies and interconnects more than 60 different systems on a single platform.

Organizational benefits include:

• An improved quality of information
• Improved customs controls
• Resource efficiency
• Traceability
• Management indicators
• Transparency

Operational benefits include:

• Reduced waiting times, transfers, and costs
• Traceability
• Process predictability
• Transparency

ANCAP (National Administration of Fuels, Alcohol, and Portland) is a Uruguayan state-owned company that is responsible for the import and refining of petroleum, production of biofuels, food, lubricants, asphalts and others.

We support the digital transformation of ANCAP with the Digital Dispatch program, which aims to automate and optimize the operations related to fuel dispatch, distribution, and delivery processes in ANCAP’s different plants. The project involved several phases:

1. Application for Transporters: We developed an application specifically designed for drivers to improve communication between them and their stakeholders. The app displays information on trips scheduled for the current and following day, with details of the products to be delivered to each customer. As trucks arrive at the plant, personnel is assigned loading bays and this information is sent to the app for the driver to enter the correct loading bay.

2. Elimination of Physical Documentation: This was considered a fundamental objective for the dispatch process to improve hygiene conditions and streamline the process.

3. Driver Identification: Driver identification was automated to ensure their qualification and register their entry into the plant. The Development and Security teams of GeneXus Consulting worked together with the ANCAP IT team on the project, making totems operational at their plants to facilitate digital entry registration. Access control can be done through a PIN or fingerprint.

4. Digital Schedule: The Digital Fuel Schedule was introduced to reduce wait-times for trucks as they load products in the different fuel loading bays, and enhancing communications between different stakeholders by visualizing the dispatch capacity of each plant (quota and resulting balance).

We have significantly improved ANCAP’s logistics, achieving a higher level of efficiency in the processes of fuel dispatch, distribution, and delivery in its different plants.

GARMET is an uruguayan company that specializes in the logistics and commercialization of fertilizers, seeds, agrochemicals, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and related products.

This project is part of the digital transformation process GARMET is going through. It seeks to rely on digital technologies to introduce innovations into its business model. It was necessary to transform the organization’s logistics processes, producing impactful results that could become competitive advantages for the business and the industry.

This project is part of the digital transformation process GARMET is going through. It seeks to rely on digital technologies to introduce innovations into its business model. It was necessary to transform the organization’s logistics processes, producing impactful results that could become competitive advantages for the business and the industry.

To meet the client’s needs, a set of mobile and web applications was developed to solve and optimize operations related to grain freight requests by producers, their coordination by GARMET personnel and their fulfillment by truck drivers.

Garmet’s key partners benefit from this logistical innovation. Furthermore, phone interactions are eliminated, communication times are reduced, and internal operations are optimized.

The first platform version went live in November 2021. This enabled the management of approximately 3,000 trips, involving more than 400 carriers and producers. Since then, multiple updates have been released based on continuous improvement and innovation.

Banco Santander is one of the leading global financial institutions and has had a strong presence in Uruguay for over 25 years.

The objective of the project was to develop a platform that would align the organization with RDA (Risk Data Aggregation) principles, established by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2013, which mainly aim at data risk management and compliance with regulations.

For this purpose, a central model was defined that takes information from the different sources available to the organization, unifying them in a single normalized, historical and certified repository.

The main benefits that Banco Santander Uruguay has obtained are:

• Automation of critical processes for the organization
• Generation of reports and metrics in a timely manner for presentation to the Corporation and the European Central Bank
• Obtaining data with a strict quality process and in accordance with RDA principles
• Transparency in information