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Procurant is the first secure, blockchain-enabled global fresh food supply chain platform. Our solutions ensure consistent, high-quality fresh food in every retail store, restaurant and home.
Technology
Procurant delivers breakthrough savings, control and visibility across the fresh food supply chain with a modern cloud platform connecting and integrating diverse users, locations and roles.
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- Blockchain enabled for immutable and trusted record keeping
- IoT sensor technologies for real-time data collection
- Cloud-based solutions connecting a global food network
- Micro-service architecture for massive scalability and rapid deployment
- Complete mobile access for today’s on-the-go workforce
Solutions
Our Solutions leverage our global fresh food supply chain platform
- Access to a wide online community of suppliers and carriers
- Discover and review supplier profile to best match sourcing needs
- Request and receive pricing information from suppliers
- Inventory planning with visibility to product movement across multiple locations
- Forecast demand using predefined methods built to consider product movement, seasonality, weather and price trends
- Demand consolidation across locations to gain more efficiencies in the sourcing process
- Simplified order processing using prebuilt order templates and schedulers
- Improved collaboration and communication with suppliers to effectively manage the order fulfilment processes
- Mobile alerts and notifications to manage order changes more efficiently
- Complete audit trail to help resolve order disputes
- Track and trace products using order and shipment details
- End to end supply chain transparency to ensure food safety
- Receive invoices from suppliers based on shipment details
- Reconcile invoices based on receiving updates
- Process and submit claims to trading partners in the event of any receiving adjustments
- Build & tender loads to carriers and receive status updates from carriers
- Mobile alerts and visibility for load changes
- Automatic freight adjustments on order changes
- Access to a wider buying network and opportunities to establish new business relationships
- Build and share company profile, product catalog with buyers
- Receive and respond to pricing requests from buyers
- Offer price incentives and deals to buyers on the network
- Receive and acknowledge newly submitted orders from trading partners
- Real time collaboration with buyers to manage order changes resulting in lesser post delivery
- Receive mobile alerts and notifications to manage order changes more efficiently
- Complete audit trail from order creation to receipt to help resolve any order disputes
- Share product traceability data with trading partners using shipment notices
- Ensure food quality standards by sharing product inspection, audit reports with trading partners
- Submit and reconcile invoices with trading partners
- Improve invoice match rates by creating invoices based on shipment details
- Get paid faster by reacting to order changes and discrepancies early in the process
- Build & tender loads to carriers for delivered orders
- Mobile alerts and visibility for load changes
- Automatic freight adjustments on order changes
- Blockchain enabled for immutable and trusted record keeping
- IoT sensor technologies for real-time data collection
- Cloud-based solutions connecting a global food network
- Micro-service architecture for massive scalability and rapid deployment
- Complete mobile access for today’s on-the-go workforce
Benefits
Procurant simplifies complex supply chains
Food Supply Chains are Complex. As food production has increasingly become more global in scope, companies across the supply chain often struggle to comply with a myriad of regulations. Adapting and integrating operations into local customs and practices can also be challenging. Language, distance, incompatible technology platforms and the limited shelf life of perishable products further complicate the situation.
Procurant eases international distribution
International Distribution can be challenging. Growing avocadoes in California for consumption in San Francisco is different from growing kiwi fruit in New Zealand for consumption in the Henan province in China. Each has a different set of players and business practices. Procurant has technology and services to simplify and accelerate the processes in global food supply chains, while also building trust, adding traceability and provenance information at each stage.
Procurant ensures food is safe
Procurant solves these problems. With a strong business process focus, our advanced mobile technology is built on leading-edge software technologies including blockchain, RFID, IoT and AI, and leverages the power of robotics, telemetry, testing, tracking and automation.
With deep global supply chain experience and relationships around the world, Procurant is particularly adept at helping companies improve logistics and supply chain processes across cultures.
Newsroom
Meet Procurant at Industry Events
Procurant will be attending, exhibiting and occasionally presenting at a number of upcoming food industry trade shows and conferences. Learn more about where you can catch up with us.
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Procurant CEO at NextGen Supply Chain Conference
Procurant CEO Eric Peters presented at the 2019 Next Gen Supply Chain Conference in Chicago.
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Procurant introduces breakthrough technology platform
The platform is the first of its kind to bring together blockchain, IoT and mobility across the complete food supply chain.
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Procurant brings our technology to China
Procurant executives attended the annual China International Food Safety & Quality Conference, November 2018 in Shanghai, China, to discuss our technology, solutions and supply chain logistics between China and the USA.
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Join Procurant at PMA Fresh Summit
Procurant will be an exhibitor at the annual PMA Fresh Summit in Anaheim, California, October 17-19, 2019.
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About Us
Procurant provides cutting-edge solutions for the global food supply chain. Our systems work to deliver fresh, safe food to the world’s population while at the same time simplifying the process, building trust between trading partners, reducing waste and improving freshness. With deep global supply chain experience and relationships around the world, Procurant is particularly adept at helping companies improve logistics and supply chain processes across cultures and country boundaries. Our mission is to answer the call to feed the world’s growing population. The Procurant leadership team has deep experience at the forefront of the development and integration of smart technologies into the global food supply chain, and share a passion for applying cutting-edge technology to ensure the safety and integrity of the food we produce and consume.
Procurant has partnered with GLP Properties to provide resources aimed at supplying the world’s global supply chains with technology solutions.
GLP is the leading global provider of modern logistics facilities and technology-led solutions. GLP, with a deep understanding across 16 geographically focused strategies, is the largest owner of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, the second largest in the US. Through its network of strategically-located properties and ecosystem partners, GLP is able to offer both space and technology-led solutions to drive value for its customers. GLP is one of the world’s largest real estate fund managers, with approximately US$40 billion of assets under management and a global portfolio of 62 million square meters (667 million square feet) globally.
Leadership
Kevin Brooks
Kevin Brooks is an experienced enterprise software sales and marketing innovator. Prior to joining Procurant he developed and led global ISV partner success at ServiceNow following that company’s acquisition of DxContinuum, where he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to DxContinuum he held executive leadership roles at Ariba and ADP, and he served as Chief Marketing Officer at Ivalua, Inc., and iTradeNetwork, Inc. Kevin is also known for co-founding the procurement industry media site, Spend Matters, and as the board chair of Vanguard Music and Performing Arts in Santa Clara, CA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Eric Peters
Eric Peters, President and CEO of Procurant, brings extensive experience and vision in supply chain technology to a series of successful software companies he has founded and led. He has been featured and quoted in hundreds of articles on supply chain, retail and the food industry, and is a contributing author to 5 books.
Peters was previously CEO of SensorThink, the first digital platform built to support the digital warehouse, and Foodlink, acquired by Roper Technologies in 2014. Foodlink, the leading network for fresh food and a pioneer in perishables supply chain solutions, was twice named to the JMP Securities Hot 100 Private Software Companies list.
Prior to joining Foodlink Peters co-founded TrueDemand Software, one of the first IoT technology companies to use predictive analytics to help the largest retailers in the world reduce lost sales due to out-of-stock inventory at the shelf. He continued to lead TrueDemand following its acquisition by Acosta Sales & Marketing, a full‐service sales and marketing agency to the consumer-packaged goods industry.
Peters has also served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Manhattan Associates and Senior Executive in Accenture’s Global Supply Chain Strategy Practice. He started his career at Tompkins Associates, a supply chain consulting firm, serving as a Vice President and General Manager. He speaks regularly at industry events around the world and serves as a board advisor to a number of startup companies.
Bharath Kumar
Bharath Kumar is responsible for managing product development at Procurant. Bharath brings significant leadership experience in building highly scalable transactional and analytics applications in SaaS/Cloud environments. He has an established track record of building successful products in startups as well as large organizations and managing globally distributed teams.
Most recently he was VP of Product Development at iTradeNetwork, a leading provider of supply chain solutions. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering at FoodLink, a leader in solutions for the perishables segment of the Food industry, which was acquired by Roper Technologies. At FoodLink he managed development of its collaborative order management and product traceability solutions.
Previously, Bharath was part of the founding team at Nomis Solutions, where he led the design and development of its award-winning price optimization solutions for the Financial Services industry. At i2 Technologies, a pioneer in supply chain optimization, he led a global engineering organization for its SRM business unit.
His previous experience includes roles at Oracle and Sun Microsystems. He has an MS from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Ian Duffield
Ian spent the first 18 years of his career designing and implementing ERP systems in manufacturing companies in the UK, including Black & Decker and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. He moved to California in 1989 with Oracle Corp, where he led several teams in the design and development of Oracle’s Manufacturing applications. Later he successfully led multiple implementations of Oracle’s applications.
Over more than 30 years Ian has developed a wide range of business experience as a hands-on leader, and company executive. Ian was the first CIO at Radius, Aspen Technology and eGain where he brought his passion to organizing and building high performing teams; transforming IT from a cost center to a significant business asset, driving dollars to the bottom line.
Most recently, Ian has been in executive positions in food technology and supply-chain related organizations focused on technology for operations, traceability and food safety. At Famous Software, True-Trac, and Foodlink, Ian led the design and development of new applications to support global food supply chain solutions and built successful professional services organizations.
Recently at iTradeNetwork UK, as COO, Ian led the European division through a major transformation and developed new business with a large food distributor, before returning to the US, to lead the Business Intelligence and Data Management division.
Ian graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England.
Ray Connelly
Ray has based his entire career on bringing technology to the agriculture and fresh food industry. He has held several key positions and has built a reputation of success and trust across these industries. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Food Traceability at iTradeNetwork, overseeing the product strategy for a range of supply chain solutions including fresh food, supply chain Traceability, Food Safety and Quality Control. Ray was at iTradeNetwork from 2014 to 2017.
Prior to that Ray was Vice President of Business Development at FoodLink Online. The core objectives in this role were to define and promote pragmatic solutions across a complex array of supply chain partners. Creating an innovative partner program, he initiated a system to enable companies in the fresh food space, to ‘discover’ one another, facilitating and improving product and technology sourcing across the FoodLink network. FoodLink was sold to iTradeNetwork in 2014.
Before joining FoodLink, Ray had started a software company to help solve the fresh produce industry’s most pressing problems, food safety and traceability. TrueTrac LLC was formed in 2009 in the wake of the Spinach crisis. TrueTrac was sold to FoodLink in 2012. This era marked the beginning of several major changes for the fresh food industry, including improving cold chain management, food safety compliance and comprehensive supply chain traceability. After a modest, but very efficient investment, TrueTrac soared to become a leader in food traceability systems across several complex clients such as Dole, Del Monte, Tanimura & Antle, Growers Express, California Giant Strawberries, and many others.
Ray has broad industry knowledge of fresh food starting from his days managing various aspects of a large California farming operation. After farming for several years he was bitten by the technology bug and spent over 17 years selling, installing consulting and supporting hundreds of companies to manage a popular ERP solution for the fresh food industry, Famous Software.
Dave Hood
Dave is responsible for leading and directing the business development strategy at Procurant. In addition to driving Procurant’s customer-centric sales process, Dave is also responsible for managing strategic partnerships with providers of software and hardware that will integrate with the Procurant Platform.
Dave has extensive experience in overseeing field sales and customer support teams, most recently as President of California-based First Alarm, one of the nation’s largest providers of physical security/life-safety systems and services. Dave is also a part-time faculty member at Cabrillo College where he teaches Business Information Systems Technology.
Dave holds an MBA from Colorado State University.
Dave has also chaired the Technology Committee at the California Chapter of the Electronic Security Association where he was a frequent speaker on IOT and disruptive technologies.
Careers
Join a team developing technologies that deliver fresh, safe food to the world’s population.
Join a team that is working to change the quality of life for farmers and food distributors, around the world. We are developing technologies that will deliver fresh, safe food to the world’s population. If you want to work some place where you can believe in the mission of the company and can impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the globe, then Procurant is the company for you. If you have a passion around fresh, safe food, come join our team.
Our team has a lifetime of experience in the food and technology industries. We are building software solutions and services that make a difference. Join our team and be part of this journey.
If you want to learn more about who we are and what we do contact us at careers@procurant.com
Currently Available Positions
Architect – User Interface
Senior Software Engineer – User Interface
Software Engineer – Blockchain
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Vice President Product Management
Marketing Intern – Summer 2019
Architect – User Interface
The UI Architect will be responsible for defining and building the user interface framework for the company’s web applications. The role is a hands-on role in designing and building high performance and scalable applications. The role includes analysis and selection of technology, prototyping, developing components, libraries and implementation standards and guidelines. The architect will also work with multiple development teams to train, mentor engineers and monitor adoption of selected technologies and standards.
We are looking for someone who is an out-of-the-box thinker and can materialize a vision that balances standardization and innovation across a suite of products that will have global application. It is important that candidates have a strong background in a variety of UI technologies and are experienced in building enterprise-class high-quality, and high-performing web applications.
Responsibilities
- Thoroughly understand product domain and target users to develop a UI architecture and strategy that fit the company’s products.
- Analyze various UI technologies such as AngularJS, React, JQuery, etc. to design the ideal approach and architecture for the company’s products. Build prototypes, identify pros and cons to make recommendations.
- Understand broad market requirements across multiple geographies to design a standard technology stack for all products.
- Design approaches to support internationalization and localization in the products from day one.
- Use object-oriented design principles to create standardized components and Javascript libraries.
- Mentor and train other engineers and team members to use best practices.
- Play a critical role in identifying test strategies to validate product functionality across browsers, devices and locales/languages.
Required Skills and Abilities
- Solid understanding of cutting edge user interface technologies and trends.
- Deep expert-level hands-on knowledge of:
- AngularJS, JQuery or similar Javascript frameworks.
- Client-side browser technologies including JavaScript, CSS, and HTML.
- Experienced in server-side software development with Java, Spring, Hibernate, etc.
- Knowledge of SQL and non-SQL databases.
- Experience with designing and building responsive user interfaces that are highly scalable and user friendly.
- Experience with building enterprise-class applications.
- Passionate about building high-quality systems with software implementation best practices.
- Eagerness to learn and work outside your technology comfort zone.
- Ability to be self-motivated, independent, and detail-oriented.
- Exhibit exceptional relationship management skills.
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of sound business practices and a proven track record of anticipating and exceeding customer expectations.
- MS or BS in Computer Science or related field
- 10 years of experience in working with UI technologies
- 5 years as an architect or lead engineer
Personal Skills
- Excellent team player.
- Very fast learner; strong interest in learning new technology.
- Ability and desire to work in a high-pressure entrepreneurial environment.
- Ability and desire to deliver high-quality results on aggressive timelines.
- Strong inter-personal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Strong skills in working with and guiding multiple teams and team members simultaneously.
- Excellent communication skills.
To Apply: Please email resume/cover letter to careers@procurant.com
Senior UI Engineer
Procurant is looking for dynamic and enterprising software professionals to join our team in Los Gatos, CA. In this role you will be responsible for doing both design and development of our state-of-the art platform and applications.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers to design new products or features. Understand target segments, users and workflows to design highly usable and intuitive user interfaces.
- Hands-on development of responsive user interfaces and mobile applications.
- Contribute significantly to developing a UI architecture, framework and components for use across all products and solutions in the company.
- Research new and emerging technologies; build prototypes to assess for use in product development.
- Provide production support as and when required.
- Strive to be up-to-date in best practices, development methods and technologies.
Specific Skills:
- BE in Computer Science (or equiv.).
- 6+ years of professional experience in developing/deploying enterprise applications using the following technologies:
- Java, JavaScript/JSON, XML, HTML5, AngularJS, ReactJS.
- RDBMS – MySQL/Oracle.
- Responsive user interface design and development, web services and APIs.
- Must have deep understanding in web application development.
- Experience with development and deployment experience on Apache Tomcat, JBoss.
Personal Skills:
- Excellent team player.
- Very fast learner; strong interest in learning new technology.
- Ability and desire to work in a high-pressure entrepreneurial environment.
- Ability and desire to deliver high-quality results on aggressive timelines.
- Strong inter-personal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Excellent communication skills.
Any of the following skills is a plus:
- Experience with JavaScript/UI frameworks – Ember, JQuery, Bootstrap etc.
- Experience with building IOS or Android applications.
To Apply: Please email resume/cover letter to careers@procurant.com.
Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer – Blockchain
We’re seeking strong developers experienced with blockchain technologies to be a part of team building highly scalable products for a global customer base. Our ideal candidates have built and released enterprise-class applications and have worked with HyperLedger Fabric, Ethereum or other blockchain technologies.
Responsibilities
- Research and drive high-level decisions on applying blockchain technologies to product features, understand pros and cons, make architecture and design recommendations.
- Monitor blockchain industry trends and development and communicate internally.
- Build prototypes and POCs of applications that use blockchain as one of the building blocks.
- Hands-on development of product features using agile development practices. Perform unit testing to ensure quality and functionality goals.
- Implement best-practices in design, coding and testing. Mentor other team members in a highly collaborative environment.
- Continually analyze and optimize code performance.
Specific Skills:
- BE in Computer Science (or equiv.).
- Hands on experience with Ethereum.
- 4+ years of professional experience in developing/deploying enterprise applications using the following technologies:
- Java, XML, AngularJS, JSON
- Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring Security, Hibernate, Hazelcast, Apache Camel
- RDBMS – MySQL/Oracle
- NOSQL – Cassandra/MongoDB/ElasticSearch
- Object-oriented design principles and patterns, experience in designing and developing server-side components/frameworks based on XML/Java.
- Must have deep understanding in web application development, Responsive Web, RESTful web services & APIs.
- Experience with development and deployment experience on Apache Tomcat, JBoss.
Personal Skills:
- Excellent team player.
- Very fast learner; strong interest in learning new technology.
- Ability and desire to work in a high-pressure entrepreneurial environment.
- Ability and desire to deliver high-quality results on aggressive timelines.
- Strong inter-personal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Must be able to work independently without much supervision
Any of the following skills is a plus:
- Experience working in a continual build/release agile environment.
- Experience with micro-services and messaging architectures.
To Apply: Please email resume/cover letter to careers@procurant.com.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Responsibilities
• Participate in defining microservices infrastructure from inception and design, through deployment, operation and continuous refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design, deployment automation, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems through mechanisms like automation
• Evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Core Qualifications
• Minimum 2 years experience in a role supporting cloud based solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Python, Go, Perl, or shell scripting.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration.
• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Docker.
Preferred qualifications:
• Expertise in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Ability to apply systematic approach to solve problems with a sense of ownership and focus.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical details to different audiences.
To Apply: Please email resume/cover letter to careers@procurant.com.
Procurant is reinventing the global food industry. We are building the first secure, blockchain enabled platform for the food industry. We are a team with deep experience in the food industry, working to solve the big problems in food. We are looking for a Sr. Director\Vice President level person who will have the opportunity to help establish the overall product strategy and be a central player in the company’s growth. Experience in launching a consumer brand or experience in enterprise software or software as a service preferred. Fluent in Chinese and experience in releasing products in China is a big plus.
Job Responsibilities
– Development of go-to-market product plans
– Creation of product marketing materials
– Cross-organizational communication of plans and requirements
– Coordination of product launches
– Communication with press and customer opinion influencers
Job Qualifications
We are seeking a proven products person in the software realm who has a track record of managing products in a fast paced cutting edge environment. They will manage a fast growing portfolio of products. A grasp of blockchain and IoT technologies is desired. The right candidate will be accustomed to, and effective in, a start-up environment. He or she will understand the requirements of working for an early-stage Internet venture, where flexibility, resourcefulness, creativity, aggressiveness and drive are highly valued, and have a track record of delivering results in that setting.
Key qualifications include:
– Creative
– Minimum 7 years of experience in product management with a successful track record of releasing B2B software.
– Experience in enterprise software or supply chain management software
– Experience in the Perishables\Agriculture space a big plus
– Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work well with individuals from multiple functional disciplines are required.
– Candidates should have strong analytical skills and sound problem-solving capabilities.
– Excellent online, written, presentation and verbal communications skills.
– Shrewd business judgment.
– BA required, MBA a plus.
If you have the skills and experience listed above along with a passion for Marketing new and exciting technologies, please submit your resume to jobs@Procurant.com. Please include VP of Product Management in the subject
Procurant is accepting applications for a summer internship supporting the company’s marketing department during the summer of 2019.
This is a great opportunity to see and be a part of foundation-level work in a marketing team as a new software company gets itself set up and established in the market. It is a fast-paced environment with a wide range of areas in which interns can learn and contribute.
Reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer, the summer internship is a paid position available as either a part-time or full-time role based at Procurant headquarters in Los Gatos, CA.
Specific responsibilities are dependent upon the skills and background of the candidate, but generally include:
- Monitoring/managing social media channels
- Planning and preparing for trade shows and industry events
- Writing/editing as assigned (product info sheets, blog posts, case studies, etc.)
- Editing and enhancing sales and marketing data
Qualified candidates must be enrolled at an accredited undergraduate college or university and authorized to work in the United States.
To apply for consideration, please complete the “Summer Internship Application” using the following URL and submit before May 31, 2019. For questions, contact info@procurant.com.
Click HERE to go to the application form.