The food sector is one of the most dynamic and competitive in the Brazilian and Latin American markets. Logistics diversity, high turnover, scattered branches, and teams constantly in the field impose significant challenges on corporate travel and expense management.
Companies in this segment, ranging from agribusiness to processing and distribution industries, need to ensure agile, secure, and integrated processes without losing rigor in compliance and budgetary control.
In this context, the search for solutions that combine technological robustness, advanced integration, and analytical intelligence becomes essential to maintain competitiveness and ensure compliance, both with internal policies and current legislation.
Argo, a reference in corporate travel and expense management in Brazil and Latin America, establishes itself as a strategic partner for industries seeking operational efficiency and innovation.
Corporate Travel Management in the Food Industry: Control, Agility, and Security for Moving Teams
Challenges in the Food Sector
Food companies, especially those with commercial, technical, and logistics teams spread across the territory, face recurring obstacles: from the need for frequent travel to the complexity of integrating multiple systems and ensuring compliance with rigid policies. Expense control, visibility over bookings, and agility in request and approval processes are essential to maintain efficiency.
How Argo Travel Transforms the Process?
Argo centralizes travel management on a complete platform, designed to meet the rigorous standards of the food industry. Over 8 million transactions are managed annually, with more than 250 TMCs served, consolidating a robust and highly reliable ecosystem.
Step-by-step of the Argo Travel solution:
- Request and Booking: The employee requests tickets, accommodation, or rental, according to parameterized rules for each profile or area of the company.
- Notification to Approvers: Approvers receive real-time alerts with fares, history, and approval options, optimizing time and ensuring compliance.
- Issuance and Integration: After approval, bookings are registered in the cloud and can be integrated with ERPs and agency systems, automating processes and eliminating rework.
The result is a more agile and predictable travel operation, essential for commercial teams that need to be close to distributors and points of sale across the country.
With 100% of bookings audited, companies reduce costs from unplanned travel and ensure full traceability of expenses in expansion or trade marketing campaigns.
Argo offers a reduction of up to 50% in service time per booking, total visibility over prices, and a complete audit trail—fundamental differentiators for sectors where cost control is strategic.
This means that technical representatives and plant managers spend less time dealing with bureaucracy and more time focused on operational productivity and customer relations.
Compliance and Security: A Priority
In the food segment, guaranteeing the traceability of bookings, preventing deviations, and being compliant with regulations like PCI is indispensable.
Argo Travel consolidates clear travel policies, automated blocks, and an audit trail that meets the highest market standards.
This provides stability in air content, which is crucial for industries with constant routes between factories, distribution centers, and regional customers, avoiding cancellations and guaranteeing predictability in travel logistics.
Total Integration and Flexibility
The Argo platform can connect all involved systems, from ERPs to external suppliers, via open APIs. This integration allows for full adaptation to the existing ecosystem within food companies, without impacting the operational routine.
Corporate Expense Management: Automation, Control, and Real-Time Visibility
Problems Faced by the Food Industry
Slow reimbursements, excessive use of spreadsheets, difficulties in controlling multiple cards, and a lack of real-time visibility into spending hinder decision-making and can generate non-compliance risks.
The decentralization of teams and the frequency of travel further increase the complexity of financial control.
Argo Expense Eliminates These Obstacles by Automating the Complete Corporate Expense Management Flow
With over 1 million active users and a presence in more than 4,500 companies, the solution provides total governance from expense logging to approval and reimbursement.
For a beverage industry, the agility in reimbursement and visibility over the travel of trade marketing teams reduce logistics costs and improve response time in the field.
Features that Boost Efficiency in the Food Sector:
- Elimination of spreadsheets and automatic reimbursements with a detailed audit trail.
- Possibility of integration with ERPs, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors.
- Simplified expense logging via OCR, QR-Code, and geolocation, facilitating the routine of the field employee.
- Management of multiple corporate cards with automatic import of statements in D+1 format (entry into the system the day after the purchase). For companies with a high volume of dispersed expenses, such as representatives, auditors, and factory supervisors, the automatic management of multiple corporate cards ensures absolute control of spending without compromising the operational autonomy of the teams.
- Automatic policies and blocks ensuring full compliance with internal and regulatory standards, including LGPD.
- Real-time reports, allowing detailed analysis and quick decisions based on analytical intelligence.
- End-to-end automation and flexible rule parameterization accelerate implementation, adapting to the specific needs of the food segment.
The Argo Expertise: Differentiators for Sector Leaders
More than a platform, Argo positions itself as a strategic partner for food companies in the digital transformation of management. Its authority is supported by the largest market share in Brazil and the integration of a modular ecosystem capable of centralizing the entire corporate travel and expense journey, promoting technological innovation and operational excellence.
In addition to providing cutting-edge technology, Argo offers specialized consulting support, extensive technical documentation, and relevant educational content, strengthening the training of managers and teams. This consulting approach is decisive for the effective adoption of best practices in compliance and the maximization of financial and operational results.
Transform Your Business’s Travel and Expense Management with Argo
With the growing challenges of the food sector, investing in a solution that combines robustness, advanced integration, analytical intelligence, and compliance is a strategic choice.
Argo delivers operational efficiency, agility, total security, and visibility, consolidating itself as the preferred platform for market-leading companies.
Talk to our specialists and elevate your corporate travel and expense management to another level, connecting processes, people, and results in an environment of continuous digital transformation.