Business management software and ERP for Beni Mellal businesses

Beni Mellal: the Tadla plain, food processing and an entrepreneurial diaspora

At the foot of the Middle Atlas, Beni Mellal is the capital of a major farming region. The irrigated Tadla plain produces citrus, olives, sugar beet and fodder crops, and dairy farming is significant. Around this base, a food processing industry has grown, dairies, oil mills and packing units supported by an agropole, together with a commercial role that makes the city the meeting point of a vast rural area stretching from Fquih Ben Salah to Kasba Tadla.

The region is also known for strong emigration, particularly to Italy and Spain. Part of the savings of Moroccans living abroad is invested locally, in property, trade or a small business entrusted to a manager. Hence a very practical question: how do you keep track of a Beni Mellal business when you live in Milan, Madrid or Casablanca?

Running a Beni Mellal business from abroad

SOGESTIO is accessible anywhere, from a browser or a phone. The owner checks the dashboard, revenue, margin, profit, cash, receivables, unpaid invoices, stock below minimum, while the manager works on the same data in Beni Mellal. Each person picks a language: the manager in Arabic, the owner in French or English.

Approval workflows set the limits: above an amount threshold, an expense, a supplier payment, a discount or a purchase waits for the owner's validation, which can be given from a phone. Nobody can approve their own request, and delegation is possible during an absence.

• Role-based rights: owner, administrator, accountant, salesperson or custom role.
• Audit log: who created, changed or deleted what, and when.
• Two-factor authentication and a list of connected devices, with remote sign-out.
• Bank reconciliation from your Moroccan bank's MT940 or CSV statements.
• Petty cash tracked entry by entry.

Selling on credit until harvest: inputs, irrigation and animal feed

Traders in seeds, fertilisers, crop protection products, irrigation equipment and animal feed often sell on credit, with payment expected after the harvest or the sale of milk. SOGESTIO handles custom payment terms with computed due dates, a credit limit per customer and tracking of cheques and bills of exchange (LCN) handed over as security or payment.

Example: a farmer buys 24,000 DH of inputs excluding VAT in November with a due date set for 30 June, and his credit limit is 40,000 DH. If he comes back in February for another 20,000 DH, his balance would exceed the limit: SOGESTIO flags it before the sale is confirmed. VAT rates on farm inputs vary by product and with each finance law: have your accountant confirm them before you set them up.

Building and materials: house projects and trading

Property investment, often funded from abroad, keeps builders, joiners, metalworkers and building materials merchants busy. The Projects module tracks each site with its amount, costs and invoicing; deposits and progress billing are invoiced on the same job, and the customer can accept the quote online through the client portal, even while living in Europe.

On the trading side, stock of cement, steel, tiles or sanitary ware is tracked per warehouse with minimum alerts and CMUP valuation, and delivery notes are linked to invoices so nothing goes unbilled.

Tadla food processing: transforming produce and paying teams

Processing units buy from many producers, track batches and bring in seasonal staff. Goods receipts record each delivery at net purchase cost, production orders on the Pro and Group plans turn raw material into finished products at real cost, and the Human Resources module alerts you before seasonal contracts end.

Payroll produces payslips with CNSS, AMO, IR and seniority and generates the DAMANCOM preparation file; entries are posted on the CGNC chart of accounts. Filings remain validated by the company or its chartered accountant.

An online service for town and countryside

SOGESTIO has no office in Beni Mellal: it is an online service usable anywhere in Morocco and abroad, and setup is remote, with customers and items imported from Excel. The interface works fully in right-to-left Arabic, as well as in French and English. The Android app and the web app, which can be installed on iPhone, keep working offline in poorly covered areas: viewing data, quotes, draft invoices, payments and expenses sync when the network returns.

A business that wants to keep its data on site can install the On-premise edition on its own server; a secure relay then lets the owner reach it from outside. The 14-day free trial needs no card; the Starter plan costs 199 DH/month excluding VAT and the Pro plan 449 DH/month.