Aksesmu Collaborates with Google Cloud to Assist Warung House owners Digitalize Their Companies and Make a Comeback Amidst the Pandemic

Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 23, 2022 – Aksesmu, a retail distribution associate for small companies that’s managed by PT. Sumber Trijaya Lestari, is collaborating with Google Cloud to assist native family-owned kiosks or stalls – often known as warungs – digitalize their operations and forge new income streams.

Warungs are the retailers of alternative for low- and middle-income households throughout Indonesia as a result of they promote meals and every day requirements at reasonably priced costs, made attainable by hire financial savings from working inside self-owned premises. The principle problem confronted by warungs, nonetheless, is proscribed money circulate and stock house. These are exacerbated by the continuing pandemic, which has adversely affected 87.5 p.c of native micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), of which 93.2 p.c have skilled a decline in gross sales, in keeping with Indonesia’s central financial institution.

Aksesmu is a digital platform that helps warungs in 28 provinces and three,071 districts. Constructed totally on Google Cloud’s safe and scalable infrastructure and superior relational database know-how, it acts as a one-stop digital hypermart that warung homeowners can entry on their cellphones. A warung proprietor can merely log in and select from a whole bunch of competitively-priced groceries and fast-moving client items earlier than putting an order. Aksesmu then facilitates the same-day supply of those provides to the warung from a inventory level situated inside a 10-kilometer radius, at no additional price.

“Aksesmu’s mission is to create mutually useful partnerships and construct an efficient product distribution ecosystem for Indonesia’s micro and small companies. When inventories are low, warung homeowners should generally shut their stalls and journey to wholesalers or markets to purchase contemporary provides. This course of is time-consuming and ends in misplaced gross sales. When pandemic motion restrictions made inventory replenishments even more durable, we felt the necessity to reply and assist warung homeowners undertake new applied sciences to develop their livelihoods,” mentioned Hans Harischandra, Director, PT. Sumber Trijaya Lestari.

“With Google Cloud’s best-in-class applied sciences and co-innovation, we’ve got designed a digital platform that’s simply accessible and addresses warung homeowners’ most pressing wants. We are going to proceed collaborating with Google Cloud to reinforce and scale our platform, in order that we will speed up digital inclusion for all 3.6 million warungs scattered throughout the Indonesian archipelago,” mentioned Yosef Risdianto, Industrial Common Supervisor, Aksesmu.

Enabling Dependable and Safe Entry Anyplace, on Any Gadget

Many warung homeowners reside in rural areas with intermittent web connectivity. In addition they typically use pay-as-you-go knowledge plans or low-cost smartphones with much less storage capability. By leveraging Google’s utility improvement platform and cargo balancing and caching capabilities, Aksesmu is ready to give warung homeowners a easy and dependable person expertise on any system – whether or not they’re accessing its digital platform as an internet utility or cellular utility.

With Google’s open and trusted cloud, Aksesmu’s developer groups can shortly create new options and combine third-party improvements – whereas making certain dataflows are encrypted to cut back safety dangers. To strengthen warung homeowners’ money circulate administration, as an example, Aksesmu incorporates bookkeeping and pay later providers from native fintech gamers. To provide warung homeowners’ new income streams, Aksesmu interoperates with suppliers of pay as you go cellular top-up providers and electrical energy tokens to permit warungs to promote e-vouchers to prospects through its platform.

“We repeatedly launch new software program updates to profit warung homeowners – from protecting info updated to including new options and useful content material like instructional movies on monetary administration and visible merchandising. Google Cloud’s Content material Supply Community helps us make sure that warung homeowners can stream our movies anytime, wherever. By implementing Google Kubernetes Engine to automate utility deployment and upgrades with no downtime, our technical groups can keep away from time-consuming guide IT configurations and totally dedicate themselves to product innovation,” mentioned Agus Priyanto, IT and Tech Product Common Supervisor, Aksesmu.

To allow safe collaboration and productiveness amongst all workers, Aksesmu can be utilizing Google Workspace with options spanning Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Chat, and Meet. Which means frontline Member Relations Officers can use their units of alternative to speak with colleagues whereas on the transfer and supply help when assembly with warung homeowners to make their onboarding experiences simpler and non-intimidating.

As a part of the subsequent section of its collaboration with Google Cloud, Aksesmu is exploring the usage of knowledge analytics, synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML) to raised serve warung homeowners. Doable use circumstances embody understanding the shopping for conduct of shoppers to advocate new gadgets that warung homeowners can add to their inventories or show extra prominently to extend gross sales. Aksesmu additionally goals to assist its customers listing their warung places utilizing Google My Enterprise, to allow them to be found by close by shoppers utilizing Google Search and Google Maps.

“Indonesia’s MSMEs are the lifeblood of our communities, and Aksesmu contributes considerably to our nation’s objective of integrating 30 million MSMEs into the digital ecosystem by 2024,” mentioned Megawaty Khie, Nation Director, Indonesia, Google Cloud. “By tapping one of the best of Google Cloud’s scalable, open supply and safe infrastructure, in addition to Google Workspace, Aksesmu has meticulously designed and delivered an accessible and feature-rich platform that’s benefitting 100,000 early adopters forward of its launch. The corporate’s steady innovation efforts won’t solely assist to guard extra warung homeowners’ livelihoods and enhance their competitiveness, it’ll additionally create a sturdy retail distribution ecosystem to assist Indonesia’s financial restoration and long-term development.”

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About Aksesmu

The title “Aksesmu” displays our function in giving small and micro entrepreneurs open and easy accessibility to know-how, in addition to handy supply providers and enterprise help, to facilitate their enterprise improvement. Backed by PT. Sumber Trijaya Lestari and its expertise in retail distribution, Aksesmu is the trusted associate for useful providers to small and micro entrepreneurs. We’re right here, able to serve, help and develop collectively. We offer easy accessibility to satisfy the enterprise wants of all our companions