Dos Pinos / Architecture of a CRM Ecosystem for Growth Transformation
Industry
Manufacturing
Challenge
Dos Pinos operated with multiple business units in silos, relying on manual workflows and paper-based processes across 7 countries. This created data gaps, slow response times, and no unified visibility across commercial, operational, and quality teams.
Results
ICX Consulting delivered a fully integrated CRM ecosystem that eliminated paper, automated service workflows, and standardized operations across Central America and the Caribbean — enabling real-time decisions and end-to-end traceability at a regional scale.
Key Product
About Cooperativa Dos Pinos
Is a leading Costa Rican cooperative specializing in the production of dairy products, beverages, and candies. Founded in 1947 by 25 dairy farmers aiming to stabilize milk sales amidst fluctuating demand, it has grown into the largest producer and marketer of milk and its derivatives in Costa Rica, boasting a portfolio of over 900 product varieties.
The company maintains a significant presence in Central America and the Caribbean, exporting to 11 countries and employing over 5,800 individuals across the region. Dos Pinos was ranked among the top eight most chosen consumer brands in Central America by Kantar World Panel's global Brand Footprint classification. The cooperative continues to innovate and expand, reinforcing its commitment to quality, sustainability, and community well-being.
The Strategic Challenge: Orchestrating Complexity
For an organization of the scale of Dos Pinos Milk Producers' Cooperative, the challenge was not technological, but operational and cultural. With multiple business units operating in silos and critical processes depending on manual workflows, ICX Consulting's vision was clear: transform fragmentation into a living ecosystem.
Through our CX Compass® and Process Transformation Framework (PTF)® methodologies, we didn't just implement software; we redesigned the way information flows to enable data-driven decision-making, eliminating friction between the commercial, operational, and quality departments.
Services Contracted
- Commercial Process Optimization: Strategic redesign based on the "Master Plan" model and revenue visibility.
- Relational Marketing Strategy and Implementation: HubSpot architecture focused on the customer journey and personalization.
- Strategic Automation of Communication Flows: Design of omnichannel contact ecosystems and process automation.
- Contact Center with a Resolutive Knowledge Base: Customer service structuring under efficiency and self-management standards.
- SAP-HubSpot Integration for Service Continuity: Process engineering for the technical management of Refrigeration and Milking.
- Quality Management Reengineering and Digitalization: Complete transformation of the quality control process and regional traceability.
The Solution
Pillar I: Commercial Strategy and Growth Visibility (AV and SUMA Stores)
The backbone of the project began with the professionalization of the field sales force. The focus shifted from reactive order-taking to proactive commercial planning.
Master Plan Module: We redesigned the prospecting logic. Now, commercial teams plan business potential by zone and technical category (agricultural, veterinary, special services), enabling intelligent market coverage.
Revenue Intelligence: We implemented a structure that differentiates the base business (recurring) from incremental growth. This strategic visibility allows management to identify where market share is truly being gained and where account defense is required.
Mobile Enablement: The adoption of mobile management was not just for record-keeping, but to turn the smartphone into the salesperson's office, synchronizing opportunities and closings in real time from anywhere in the region.
Pillar II: Operational Efficiency and Service Continuity (Refrigeration and Milking)
In sectors where response time is critical for the cold chain, ICX's consulting focused on eliminating downtime.
SAP-HubSpot Orchestration: We made the technical complexity of the back-office (SAP) translate into agility for the field team. Maintenance notices are automatically transformed into intelligent service tickets, assigned by geolocation and technical specialty.
End-to-End Installation Cycle: We designed an operational pipeline that activates at the moment of commercial closing, ensuring that logistics and technical installation run like clockwork, with full traceability for the end customer.
Pillar III: Contact Center and Resolutive Omnichannel
Customer service ceased to be a call reception center and became the cooperative's operational bridge.
Centralization and Traceability: We unified commercial requests, technical claims, and complaints under a single source of truth.
Intelligent Assignment Logic: We reduced administrative "ping-pong" through workflows that direct each case to the correct supervisor immediately, based on product category, region, or report severity.
Pillar IV: The Master Case — Quality Management Transformation
This is the pillar where process consulting reached its highest expression, achieving absolute regional digitalization.
Elimination of Paper and Operational Friction: We transformed a historical process based on physical forms and manual records into a 100% digital operation. Quality inspectors throughout Central America and the Caribbean now report from mobile devices, feeding the system in real time.
Custom Data Structure (Custom Objects): We developed the custom object "Claim Form." This allows unprecedented technical granularity: SKU traceability, specific batches, root causes, and visual evidence, all connected directly to the customer profile.
Multi-Regional Impact: We standardized quality and claims criteria for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, allowing for the first time a regional-level comparison of quality metrics through executive dashboards.
Strategic Impact
ICX Consulting's intervention was not limited to a technological implementation; it represented a reengineering of the Cooperative's vital information flow. The results go beyond conventional metrics to position themselves as pillars of competitiveness:
From Latency to Immediacy: We have eradicated dependence on paper and deferred manual data entry. Today, the sales force and quality inspectors operate in a 100% digital, live model. A request generated in the field becomes an action in the system instantly, eliminating days of waiting and "blind spots."
Radical Elimination of Rework: Thanks to standardized process design, we have achieved maximum administrative efficiency. By capturing information correctly and uniquely at the source, correction, data entry, and duplication tasks that previously consumed hundreds of man-hours have been eliminated.
Total Traceability and Data Governance: What was once intuition is now certainty. The organization has end-to-end visibility of every SKU, every technical claim, and every commercial opportunity. This traceability enables surgical decision-making, allowing management to pivot regional strategies in hours, not weeks.
Consolidated Regional Scalability: We made seven countries speak the same operational language. Process standardization ensures that Dos Pinos' excellence is uniform, regardless of geographic borders, ensuring that the brand promise is fulfilled with the same rigor throughout the region.
For Dos Pinos, this evolution has not been just the adoption of a tool, but the consolidation of a sustainable competitive advantage. At ICX Consulting, we don't just connect systems; we design the operational agility that the future of the industry demands.
