Applemango Korea acts as a service provider for all necessary procedures when exporting or importing food to or from Korea. The company connects manufacturers and customers based on a pool of 10,000 domestic and foreign food manufacturers, and provides professional services ranging from food quarantine, customs clearance, and follow-up management so that various foreign foods can be safely imported and distributed in Korea.
In export, the company discovers overseas buyers through a global agent network from Asia to the Americas and Europe and supports its clients with all domestic food manufacturing operations. Applemango’s workforce consists of industry professionals with proven experience in overseas food sourcing and development of food manufacturers for the past several decades, as well as experts with know-how from customs officers specializing in food quarantine.
The company sees itself as an innovator in the food industry and is constantly looking at ways to improve its processes through new technology and digitalization.
The real-time accuracy of due diligence of foreign food manufacturing factories has become increasingly stringent. For improving the non-face-to-face due diligence, Applemango therefore decided to look for an industry-proven and secure solution that would better suit their needs and improve the remote auditing processes. Augmented Reality (AR) was identified as a promising technology to serve the company’s needs.
After conducting AR-based product research including TeamViewer products for three months, TeamViewer Frontline Assist was selected as an optimal solution. It meets all the conditions required by the government and the customers, it is optimized for Applemango’s business, offers an advanced feature set and easy usability. It runs on standard smart glasses, meaning hardware purchases are within reasonable limits.
While in the past, it was difficult to communicate through smartphones due to factory noise, it is now possible for the remotely connected viewers to communicate via voice or chat and add augmented reality markers to the video that are displayed in the field of view of the on-site expert wearing the smart glasses. TeamViewer’s solution thus makes it possible to give accurate and detailed work instructions. In addition, smooth and efficient collaboration is now possible through functions such as multi-party calls, technical data sharing, and automatic translated chats. The recording of important parts of the video enables an immediate documentation of compliance with food safety and quality.
After evaluating the successful first year, Applemango therefore decided to continue and expand the usage of TeamViewer Frontline in the future.
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