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Knowledge reorganized
The Böhmer Group is a key partner in the German potato and onion industry. Around 800 farmers from all over Germany deliver their harvest to the company. The Böhmer Group bundles and packs the goods. They are then delivered to various food retailers.
With increasing demands on traceability and data management, there was a growing desire to simplify processes and centralize knowledge. This gave rise to the idea of a platform that makes experience digitally accessible and simplifies daily collaboration.
Together with Sidestream, Böhmer began to turn this idea into reality - pragmatically, cooperatively, and tailored to practical application.
Challenge: Knowledge grows - the structure follows suit
The expertise of the Böhmer Group lies in the minds of its sales representatives and cultivation consultants. The latter accompany farmers throughout the entire season, gathering new insights into varieties, soils, yields, and storage quality—and use this information to make decisions on a daily basis.
However, much of this information existed only in scattered Excel spreadsheets, emails, or personal notes. There was no shared database. This made planning, coordination, and evaluation time-consuming—especially when multiple departments or consultants were working together.
In addition, the requirements for traceability and quality assurance are constantly increasing. In order to remain efficient in the long term, a solution was needed that structures knowledge, connects processes, and makes everyday life easier for everyone involved.
Solution: Experience becomes application
The project shows how decades of experience can be translated into data - making decisions smarter, faster, and more transparent.
Step by step, conversations, Excel files, and seasonal routines gave rise to a digital platform that starts exactly where knowledge is created - in the field, in the warehouse, and in the minds of consultants.
Fields can be imported directly from official agricultural data, field samples can be recorded digitally, and results can be shared automatically with farmers. Geodata can be processed, and satellite images can be used within the application. An article tab serves as an encyclopedia or knowledge base.
This transforms experience into structured information and information into a tool for better decision-making. What used to be spread across many channels is now part of a single system - intuitive, transparent, and tailored to practical use.
Features: What the platform offers
The platform digitally maps Böhmer's daily work routine—from crop planning to warehouse management. It grows with the needs of users and combines functions that were previously spread across many different tools.
An excerpt of the most important features:
- Field management: Fields can be imported directly from official agricultural data (ELAN), edited digitally, and linked to field samples.
- Observations & exchange: Findings from the field are recorded in a structured manner and automatically shared with the relevant farmers.
An example flow:
- A Böhmer employee takes a field sample.
- They discover a parasite.
- A warning can be created in the system.
- The warning is accompanied by geodata.
- All farmers with fields within a radius of, for example, 500 meters from the location of the find receive the warning via text message or email.
- You can see all the information at a glance, even while you are driving your tractor in the field.
The result is a system that turns experience into efficiency - practical, clearly structured, and future-proof.
Collaboration: Working hard in the field and at the computer
The development of the platform was not a traditional IT project, but rather a true team effort. While Böhmer contributed their knowledge from decades of farming experience, Sidestream translated this expertise into a scalable, digital solution.
Regular coordination, short decision-making processes, and direct feedback from everyday life ensured that each function found its place in practice.
Step by step, a platform was created that shows what is possible when expertise and technology work together.
Conclusion: Knowledge as the resource of the future
With the new platform, Böhmer has demonstrated that knowledge is more than just experience - it is a resource that can be digitally refined.
Routines became processes, data became insights, and collaboration became efficiency.
This is how a system grows that thinks for itself, grows with you, and shows how small and medium-sized businesses can put digitalization into practice.
