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	Leaf expertise Our experience is based on: Hundreds of tobacco lots of all types inspected before shipment and then upon reception in the European warehouses, Dozens of thousands of tobacco samples evaluated and compared over the years (physically, chemically and sensory-wise), The deep knowledge of each market specificities and limits, A typological approach of tobacco grades depending on their contributions to the blends, Long term vision surveys on tobacco markets depending on crops and purchase campaigns, An objective approach of various suppliers strengths and weaknesses. Thus, "Tobacco Expertise" may provide a precious support for optimizing your grades collection, for monitoring the chemical and physical parameters depending on the targetted blends (taste line, usage in cigarettes or RYO), for implementing and training sensory panels, for helping you in solving potential claims, etc. If necessary, "Tobacco Expertise" may benefit of dedicated to cigars competencies, from an expert with a 20 years experience in wrappers and long fillers.

	Leaf purchasing Thanks to its markets knowledge and to its contacts network, notably in Asia, "Tobacco Expertise" may bring you a highly specialized support for optimizing and diversifying your purchases at the best quality to price ratio, and with an optimal coverage of your needs by grade depending on the tobacco availability by country and region, whichever the tobacco type. Through its strong implication closest to the tobacco production areas, for the setting of grades as much as for the supervision of the tobacco lots preparation at suppliers, our team may guarantee the qualitative steadiness requested by your tobacco recipes. With its vision of the markets complementarity, "Tobacco Expertise" will help you building up the healthiest tobacco resources policy for optimizing your working capital.

	Process expertise A long term experience in the quality control upon Dark tobaccos fermentation and threshing, in the supervision of all tobacco types threshing at suppliers, in the fermentation or the soft-drying of Oriental tobaccos… As many assets for guaranteeing, beyond the tobaccos intrisic quality, the conformity to the highest standards for preparation and packing. Having been in charge of an R&D Department supervising in an integrated way the blending, together with the casings, aftercuts and all primaries processes, this is the chance of a global and optimal vision of tobacco usages, from the reception till the cut rag in the final products. If needed, this expertise may be extended upon demand to more specialized domains (choice of equipments, industrial implementation, qualification of installations, etc.).

	Blends optimization An experience of 20 years in blending has given the invaluable opportunity of numerous and diversified developments of all types of tobacco products (cigarettes, RYO, pipe,...) for all taste lines (Virginia, US, Dark, Aromatic,...): Answers to Marketing and Sales demands, notably for innovative aromatic products, Adaptation to the evolutions of regulatory constraints and Corporate policies, Blends cost optimization on all segments (from Premium" to "Super Low Cost"), Brands declinations (from "Full Flavor" to "Ultra"). This experience has been developed with an open-minded methodological approach diversified in multiple domains (cross-functional projects management, sensory analysis methodologies, statistical simulation tools, value analysis and targetted costs design, ec.), also integrating the most recent technological evolutions applied to the tobacco industry, in particular in the domains of filling power gain, casing and flavouring. "Tobacco Expertise" may get your blends benefiting of this bundle of expertises.

	Systems reengineering Even when they rely on standard ERPs, the tobacco flows present important specificities in terms of data structuration, implying an unavoidable integration with dedicated softwares (LIMS, quality management, projects management, extraction and reporting tools,etc.). After several experiences as business owner or key users leader for the design of information systems dedicated to tobacco flows (from purchasing to production), eitheir based on specific developments or on the most famous ERPs standards, "Tobacco Expertise" may contribute preciously to the management of your projects, especially for: Data structuration and process reengineering, in particular by animating key users workshops, sole able to precise their specific needs, but most often very little prepared to such tasks, Data migration and verification prior to loading,  Specification of extraction and reporting needs in the new systems, and selection of the optimal tools, Final users documentation and training.