Basel, CH – December 2025
Driving Innovation in Dairy with MCP on SAP BTP
As part of our ongoing commitment to advancing cloud-based solutions, Softproviding—in close collaboration with our strategic partner SAP, with whom we are jointly defining the target architecture—is developing a dedicated Milk Collection and Payment (MCP) solution tailored for the dairy sector.
To ensure the MCP solution addresses the diverse needs of the global dairy industry, we are conducting requirements gathering with a worldwide customer base. This approach enables us to design a truly global solution that reflects best practices and real-world requirements from leading dairy companies across different regions.
The MCP solution is designed to strengthen the dairy industry with smart, cloud-based tools that promote transparency, efficiency, and sustainability throughout the value chain. Importantly, MCP is built to operate seamlessly in both private and public cloud environments, ensuring flexible integration with existing IT landscapes and supporting hybrid scenarios. By leveraging SAP’s latest technology and collaborating directly with our customers, our goal is to provide solutions that meet current demands and anticipate future challenges—supporting dairy businesses in their efforts to innovate, expand, and thrive in a constantly changing environment.
Key Benefits
End-to-End Process Integration: MCP brings together essential dairy operations—including collection, reception, quality management, settlement, and payment—into a single, unified platform.
Modular and Flexible: The solution adapts to individual IT landscapes and transformation roadmaps, supporting different business models.
Industry Collaboration: Developed with input of leading dairy companies, MCP reflects real-world requirements and best practices.
Cloud-Ready and Future-Proof: Built to leverage the latest in data management and AI, MCP ensures investment security and scalability for years to come.
Core Architecture Components Under Development
Collection Cockpit
The Collection Cockpit will play a key role in providing a comprehensive overview of all milk collection activities. It allows planners and logistics teams to record detailed data for each farm pickup, including quantities and quality metrics, while performing automated consistency checks to ensure accuracy. Seamless integration with SAP standard purchasing functionalities supports end-to-end process visibility, efficient operations, and reliable data for settlement and compliance. This results in a transparent, streamlined, and error-resistant milk collection process.
Reception & Shipping Cockpit
The reception of milk and related intermediates is being streamlined to optimize quality control and maintain full traceability from farm to production facility. The system supports both reception and shipping operations and incorporates intuitive, step-by-step navigation. Role-specific user interfaces are under development for a range of reception activities, including check-in, data registration, unloading, cleaning, check-out, and driver self-service. In addition, the system will facilitate real-time data integration with MES and other connected applications.
Quality Management Cockpit
The Quality Management Cockpit is designed to capture and analyze quality data at every stage, supporting compliance, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
Settlement Management System
An industry-specific Settlement Cockpit is being developed to efficiently handle complex settlements including multi-party payments, quality-based pricing, and flexible cost allocation.
API Integration and Data Management
Comprehensive APIs are being developed to enable exchange of collection data, reception information, quality and settlement details with external systems, while customizable activities will support flexible business process adaptations.
The process steps covered by the MCP solution are highlighted in orange in the diagram below:
If this article has piqued your interest, please do not hesitate to contact Carlos García (Business Development) for further information e-mail, phone +41 (0)61 508 21 46.