BAMBIS

FARM TO TABLE | 100% BICOL | GRASS-FED

CIRCUIT & DISTRIBUTION

OPERATIONS MANUAL

The Ring Road Model, Satellite Container Network,

Produce Aggregation & Foodservice Distribution

Bicol’s Farm-to-Table Bidvest

CONFIDENTIAL

March 2026 | Companion to the Corridor Strategy Briefing & Feed Operations Manual

1. The Circuit Model

Bambis does not run a delivery route. It runs a circuit — a continuous ring road that loops through every town in the Camarines Norte–Camarines Sur corridor. Two trucks leave Ragay every morning, heading in opposite directions. They travel the full loop and return to Ragay every evening. Every town on the circuit is served twice daily, hours apart, by different vehicles carrying different cargo.

1.1 The Ring Road

The circuit follows two national highways that form a natural loop around the Bicol peninsula, with Ragay at the southern base and Daet at the northern apex:

Total circuit distance: approximately 170 km. Each truck completes the full loop daily, leaving Ragay in the morning and returning by evening. The trucks travel in opposite directions, meaning they cross paths somewhere near Daet — like two racing cars on a circuit going in opposite directions.

1.2 Why Opposite Directions

Running opposite directions is not a scheduling convenience. It is a strategic decision that delivers five operational advantages:

• Double coverage: Every town, every satellite container, every customer and every farmer on the loop gets visited twice per day by two different trucks, hours apart. Nothing sits overnight. Nothing spoils.
• Real-time road intelligence: If Truck A hits a landslide, flood, or road closure heading south on the Maharlika Highway, Truck B has not reached that section yet heading north. One radio call and Truck B reverses, takes the Andaya route home instead. No truck gets stranded. No product is lost.
• Flexible loading: If one truck runs out of space, the other catches the overflow hours later. The two-up crews communicate constantly — “Sipocot container has 300 kg produce waiting, I can only take 150, leave the rest for me on the way back or flag it for Truck B.”
• Disaster resilience: During typhoon season, when one highway closes (sometimes for days), both trucks simply run the same route on the remaining open road in opposite directions. The circuit becomes a shuttle. Service continues.
• Market intelligence: Two crews covering the same territory see everything — what competitors are doing, what farmers are planting, what restaurants are opening, what roads are deteriorating. Information flows back to Ragay HQ twice daily from two different perspectives.

1.3 Daily Cycle

Every day follows the same rhythm. The circuit never stops.

Key principle: The trucks swap routes daily or as needed. Truck A might take the eastern leg on Monday and the western leg on Tuesday. This prevents predictability (security), distributes road wear on vehicles evenly, and ensures both crews know both routes intimately.

2. The Trucks

Two purpose-selected vehicles, each optimised for its primary cargo, but flexible enough to carry mixed loads when the circuit demands it.

2.1 Truck A — The Reefer

2.2 Truck B — The Hauler

2.3 Crew Structure

Each truck carries a two-up team that alternates driving duties. This provides:

• Extended operating hours: One drives while one rests, handles loading, or manages customer/farmer interactions at stops. The circuit can run 14–16 hours if needed without fatigue risk.
• Specialised skills: On the reefer, one crew member specialises in cold chain management and food handling. On the hauler, one specialises in animal handling and welfare.
• Security: Two people at every stop. One stays with the vehicle while the other enters the container or customer premises.
• Continuity: If one person is sick, the other can run a shortened route solo. The circuit never stops completely.

3. The Satellite Container Network

Bambis satellite containers are modified 20-foot shipping containers positioned at strategic junctions along the circuit. Painted Bambis green with full branding, logos, contact details, and clear instructions for farmers and buyers. They are the physical infrastructure of the entire distribution network — the hubs through which everything flows.

3.1 Container Locations

Phase 2 expansion: Additional containers at Libmanan (rice granary access), Capalonga (pilgrimage and coastal traffic), and potentially Calauag/Tagkawayan in Quezon province as the circuit extends south.

3.2 Container Configuration

Each satellite container is a modified 20-foot steel shipping container with the following configuration:

3.3 The Station Manager

Each satellite container is staffed by a local station manager — a trusted member of the surrounding community who becomes the face of Bambis in their area. This person is critical to the entire network.

Role and Responsibilities

• Farmer-facing: Receive produce and raw materials from farmers. Weigh on calibrated scales. Grade quality (A-grade for market, B-grade for processing/feed). Log everything into the digital system. Issue receipts. Store in appropriate section (cold or dry).
• Buyer-facing: Receive orders from local businesses (carinderias, resorts, canteens, sari-sari stores). Fill orders from container stock. Process payments via the digital system. Build relationships with commercial buyers in the area.
• Truck-facing: Prepare stock for truck collection. Help load and unload. Confirm all movements on the digital system. Communicate with truck crews about volumes, special items, or urgent orders.
• Community-facing: Explain the Bambis system to new farmers. Recruit potential contract growers. Identify new commercial buyers. Report local market conditions, competitor activity, and supply/demand changes to Ragay HQ.

Profile

The ideal station manager is someone who is already embedded in the local farming community — likely a farmer themselves, possibly one of Bambis’s contract growers who takes on the container role as additional income. They know every farm within 10 km, what each farm produces, and who buys what in the local area. They are comfortable with a smartphone and can learn the digital system quickly. They are trusted locally.

Compensation

Station managers earn a base salary plus performance incentives tied to the volume of product that passes through their container (both farmer collections and buyer sales). This aligns their interests with Bambis: the more business flows through their container, the more they earn. The role is designed to be more attractive and stable than subsistence farming alone, providing a guaranteed income floor with upside potential.

4. Produce Aggregation — Solving the Market Access Problem

Hundreds of smallholder farmers across the Camarines corridor already grow vegetables, root crops, and fruit. The produce is there. The problem is not supply — it is market access. Local markets are oversaturated with the same crops at the same time. There is no affordable, reliable way to move small quantities from a barangay farm to a buyer who would pay for them. And without refrigeration, fresh produce in Bicol heat lasts hours, not days.

Bambis solves all three problems simultaneously:

• Transport: The trucks are already running the circuit daily. Adding crates of produce costs almost nothing — the fuel is burned, the drivers are paid. The farmer drops produce at the nearest satellite container and the truck picks it up on the next pass.
• Shelf life: The reefer extends produce life from hours to days. Vegetables collected at 6am in Lupi are still cold and fresh when they reach Daet at lunchtime, or Naga the next day.
• Market access: Bambis aggregates small quantities from many farmers into commercial volumes. One farmer’s 20 kg of eggplant is not enough to sell. But 20 farmers’ 200 kg of mixed produce is enough to supply a restaurant, a hotel kitchen, an institutional canteen, or the Bambis café directly.

4.1 How It Works — The Farmer Experience

The system is designed so that any farmer can use it the first time without training:

4.2 Weekly Pricing

Bambis sets produce prices weekly, posted every Sunday evening for the coming week. Prices are based on:

• Daet and Naga wholesale market rates: What buyers in the destination markets are actually paying. Bambis works backward from the selling price, subtracts its logistics margin, and posts the farm-gate price.
• Supply data from the previous week: The digital system shows exactly what was delivered to every container the previous week. If eggplant was oversupplied and squash was short, prices adjust to signal farmers toward what’s actually needed.
• Standing orders from commercial buyers: If a hotel in Daet has committed to buying 50 kg of leafy greens every week, Bambis knows that demand exists and prices accordingly to ensure supply.
• Seasonal factors: Typhoon season, planting cycles, local fiestas — all affect supply and demand. Prices reflect reality.

Prices are posted on the Bambis website (accessible via Starlink at every container), on physical boards at each container, and can be sent via SMS or GCash notification to registered farmers.

4.3 The Cashless Exchange

No cash is held at any satellite container. This is a foundational rule with no exceptions. The reasons are practical and principled:

• Security: A roadside container holding cash is a target. A container holding vegetables and a tablet is not. No cash means no armed robbery risk, no theft temptation for staff, no disputes about change or counting.
• Transparency: Every transaction is digitally recorded. The farmer can see their full history on their phone. There is no way for a station manager to skim, shortchange, or misrepresent a transaction. The system is the record.
• Flexibility: The farmer doesn’t have to take cash. They can trade vegetables for feed, meat, eggs, chicken, compost, soil — whatever makes their life easier. The digital ledger tracks credits and debits across all product categories.

Payment Methods

The philosophy: Teach the Filipino farmer that technology is for more than games and cities. It is for whatever makes your life easier. No training seminars. No workshops. Just bring your vegetables, look at the screen, pick what you want in return. The first time a farmer trades a sack of eggplant for a sack of feed without touching a single peso, the system has proven itself.

5. The Digital Backbone

The entire Bambis network runs on a live digital system that connects every satellite container, both trucks, the Ragay HQ operations office, every registered farmer, and every commercial buyer. Starlink satellite internet at every node ensures the system works everywhere on the circuit, including areas with no mobile phone signal.

5.1 What Each User Sees

5.2 Data Intelligence

After six months of operation, the digital system will contain something no one in Bicol currently has: a complete picture of what the corridor produces, in what quantities, at what times of year, and where the demand is. This intelligence enables:

• Production coordination: Bambis can tell farmers what to grow. “We’re constantly short on leafy greens but drowning in eggplant. Plant kangkong and pechay next season — we guarantee the pickup.” Supply shifts from reactive aggregation to proactive coordination.
• Demand forecasting: Standing orders from restaurants and institutions create predictable demand. The system matches this against historical supply data to predict shortfalls before they happen.
• Price optimisation: Real-time supply and demand data allows Bambis to set prices that balance farmer incentives with market realities. Oversupplied products get lower prices (signalling farmers to diversify). Undersupplied products get higher prices (attracting more farmers to grow them).
• Route optimisation: GPS and volume data reveal which containers are busiest on which days, enabling dynamic route planning that minimises empty running and maximises pickup/delivery efficiency.

5.3 Connectivity

6. Foodservice Distribution — Bicol’s Farm-to-Table Bidvest

Bidvest (now Bidfood) built a global foodservice distribution empire by solving one problem: the restaurant, hotel, or canteen kitchen needs a reliable, one-stop supplier that delivers everything they need, on time, every time. They don’t want to visit five different market stalls and negotiate with ten vendors. They want to place one order and have one truck show up with everything.

Bambis is building the same model for the Camarines corridor, with one fundamental difference: Bidvest sources globally and distributes locally. Bambis sources locally and distributes locally. Every product on the truck comes from Bicol. Farm to table. The chef in the Daet hotel gets grass-fed goat from Ragay pastures, eggplant from the Lupi farmer who dropped it at the container that morning, tilapia from Ragay Gulf, eggs from Bambis chickens — all on one truck, one order, one invoice.

6.1 Target Customers

6.2 Product Range

Bambis supplies a comprehensive farm-to-table product range, all sourced within Bicol:

6.3 Order and Delivery Process

Commercial buyers interact with Bambis through the same digital system that connects the entire network:

• Place order: Buyer logs into the Bambis site or calls the Ragay order desk. Selects products, quantities, and preferred delivery date. The system confirms availability in real time based on current stock, incoming container logs, and production schedules.
• Order processing: The Ragay HQ operations office reviews incoming orders each afternoon and builds the next morning’s truck manifests. Orders are matched to routes — deliveries heading east go on Truck A, deliveries heading west go on Truck B.
• Delivery or pickup: The truck delivers directly to the buyer’s kitchen door (for high-volume accounts), or the order is dropped at the nearest satellite container for customer pickup (for smaller or irregular orders).
• Invoicing: Digital invoice generated at the point of delivery. Payment terms as agreed: GCash on delivery, weekly account settlement, or monthly terms for institutional buyers.

6.4 The Container as Mini Distributor

Every satellite container operates as both a collection point (farmer side) and a distribution point (buyer side). The same physical counter serves both functions:

The station manager does not need to be a salesperson. The products sell themselves because the system matches supply to demand before anything arrives at the container. The station manager’s job is to execute — weigh, log, store, hand over, confirm. The digital system handles pricing, inventory, and order management.

7. Ragay HQ — The Operations Centre

Ragay is the hub of the entire Bambis operation. Everything radiates out from Ragay and returns to Ragay. The farm, feed mill, slaughter facility, cold storage, processing area, and operations office are all located here. This is where raw materials become products, where animals become meat, where orders become deliveries.

7.1 Ragay Facilities

7.2 The Operations Office

The operations office is the brain of the Bambis network. It connects the production facilities at Ragay with the distribution network on the circuit. The office staff manage everything that happens between a farmer dropping produce at a container and a chef receiving an order at their kitchen door.

Core Functions

Staffing (Phase 1)

The initial operations office requires a lean team:

• Operations manager: Oversees the entire system. Sets weekly prices. Manages key commercial accounts. Makes procurement and production decisions. Reports to the owner.
• Order desk / dispatch coordinator: Takes incoming orders, builds daily manifests, communicates with truck crews and station managers. This person is the daily heartbeat of the operation.
• Accounts clerk: Processes payments, generates invoices, reconciles the barter/credit ledger, manages GCash disbursements to farmers.

As volume grows, additional roles include: dedicated sales representative (visiting restaurants and hotels to build accounts), quality control officer (grading standards, food safety audits), and additional order desk staff for expanded hours.

8. The Complete Model — How Everything Connects

Bambis is not a farm, a feed mill, a butcher shop, a trucking company, a produce trader, or a foodservice distributor. It is all of these things simultaneously, connected by a single circuit and a single digital system. Here is how everything flows:

The Circular Flow

• Waste becomes feed: Copra meal, rice bran, fish scraps, and vegetable culls are collected from farms and processors along the circuit. These waste products are processed at the Ragay feed mill into balanced, 100% Bicol-sourced feed for six livestock species.
• Feed becomes livestock: Feed is distributed to Bambis’s own farm, to contract growers along the circuit, and sold/bartered to independent farmers. Livestock are raised on Bambis feed and Bicol pasture.
• Livestock becomes meat: Animals are collected by the hauler truck, returned to Ragay, slaughtered, butchered, vacuum-sealed, and loaded onto the reefer truck for distribution.
• Meat feeds the corridor: Processed meat is delivered to restaurants, hotels, institutions, carinderias, and sari-sari stores along the circuit. The Bambis café showcases the farm-to-table story.
• Produce fills the gaps: Fresh vegetables, fruit, and eggs are aggregated from hundreds of smallholder farmers through the satellite container network, providing the complete product range that commercial kitchens need.
• Everything that isn’t eaten goes back to the soil: Manure becomes compost. Rice hull becomes biochar. Vegetable culls become animal feed. The circular system has no waste.

What Makes This Model Unique

• Vertically integrated: Bambis controls the entire chain from feed production to livestock raising to slaughter and processing to distribution and retail. No middlemen. No dependencies.
• Locally sourced: 100% Bicol ingredients in every feed formula. No soybean meal from the US. No synthetic premix from Manila. No imported anything.
• Digitally connected: Starlink-powered real-time system connecting every farmer, every container, every truck, every buyer, and the central hub. Full transparency at every point in the chain.
• Cashless: No physical money anywhere in the system except at the Ragay HQ accounts office and the Daet butcher shop retail counter. Everything else is digital — GCash, credit, barter. Secure, transparent, traceable.
• Two-way logistics: Every kilometre the trucks travel generates value in both directions. Northbound carries product to market. Southbound collects raw materials and produce. Empty running approaches zero.
• Disaster-resilient: Dual highways, opposite-direction circuit, geographic diversification (farm in Ragay, outlets across the corridor), and satellite internet that works when cell towers go down. The system is designed for typhoon country.

The Promise to the Farmer

Technology is for more than games and cities. It is for whatever makes your life easier. Bring your produce. We weigh it. You see the price on your phone. Choose how you want to be paid — cash on your GCash, credit for feed, swap it for meat or eggs or soil. No middleman. No market day. No waiting. No wondering if you got cheated.

The Promise to the Buyer

One call. One truck. Everything you need for your kitchen, from grass-fed goat to fresh eggplant to free-range eggs, all sourced from Bicol farms, delivered cold to your door every morning. The farm-to-table story your customers care about, with the reliability and consistency your business demands.

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