Poultry
Cranswick
A top food producer and supplier of added-value products
Based in England, Cranswick PLC was started when a group of passionate, British farmers came together in 1975. Then, in the 1980's, Cranswick moved into food production and introduced one of Britain's first ‘farm to fork’ offerings.
Today, the organisation is one of the largest food producers in the UK and it continues to stay true to its original ethos of creating authentic British food.
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Find Out MoreRosie & Jim
A rapidly growing processing company in Dublin
Rosie & Jim is an Irish food production company established in 1997 when award-winning Craft Butcher Jimmy McLoughin established Quality First Limited. He began producing gourmet chicken products for supply to butcher shops and restaurants. Before long, the rapidly growing business moved to larger premises in Inchicore, Dublin 8. At this point, Rosie joined to assist with running the business.
Rosie and Jimmy McLoughlin are a husband and wife team who share a passion for wholesome quality food.
Rosie and Jim supply distributors to the retail, food-service and catering trades with ready to cook chicken products such as Breaded fresh & Frozen Chicken products, Wraps & Pasties.
Rosie and Jim approached Emydex in 2016 with a view to implementing a factory-wide Production Control and Traceability Reporting IT system door-to-door. The company had no existing factory floor IT system in place, operating manual processes instead, which meant excessive recording of internal processes manually on paper, which was both laborious and time-consuming, and offered little by way of real-time production control and traceability reporting.
The company had no real insight into the quantity or value of their existing stocks, resulting in procurement planning issues. Unsure of what current stocks were available to fulfill production orders, often resulted in over-ordering of stock, and the holding of excess stock of raw materials, dry goods and ingredients on-site than was needed.
Working with Emydex
“By the end of the first week most of the production team using the system were already comfortable with using it. You could visibly see them speeding up when going through the individual screens... Overall, I feel the project was a successful implementation, and the new system has been well received by our production team, operators and supervisors.”
Peter Turner, Financial Controller, Rosie & Jim
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Find Out MoreMoy Park
One of Northern Ireland’s largest poultry processors
Moy Park is one of Northern Ireland’s largest poultry processors. Founded in 1932 as O'Kane Poultry, the group operates two hatcheries, a feed mill and a processing plant in Ballymena covering both chicken and turkey production. The company employs over 1,500 people and produces over 500 different product lines.
Moy Park has been an Emydex customer since 2009 when Emydex began work on a pilot project to provide the company with areal-time warehouse management and dispatch system, with full traceability. The project was later extended to deliver both the Emydex Packing Management and Yields and Costings modules sitting on the underlying Emydex Data Management platform.
Some points of interest in this project from an Emydex perspective are:
- How Emydex was able to seamlessly integrate a variety of in-house legacy systems
- The full extent of functionality provided
- The extent of system usage by Moy Park, e.g. stock take and dispatch and management reporting that might traditionally be handled by an ERP
What Moy Park Says
“Emydex have been able to develop and implement seamless, efficient and innovative solutions into a fairly complex production environment.
"Their experience in food production and traceability adds another level to systems design, bringing additional ideas and concepts. They're willing to understand existing processes and design systems to fully integrate with them.”
Paul Johnston, Finance Director, Moy Park
Challenge
- Many in-house/legacy systems
- No accurate handle on Stock levels
- High volume of transactions necessary to dispatch product to end customers
- Fresh, Processed and Coated Poultry Products
Solution
Outcome
- Production to Work Order
- Scan any/all products to all lines
- Accurate Yield Control/give-away by line
- Stock Intake, Put-way, Palletising, Picking and Dispatch
- Accurate Stock Control & Reconciliation
- 3rd party cold storage integration (real time, box level, bi-direction)
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A leading UK supplier of cooked and raw poultry
Established in 1972 and based in Cheshire, Forresters is one of the largest suppliers of cooked, raw and coated poultry in the United Kingdom. The company supplies retailers, food services, pub retailers, manufacturers and catering butchers with a variety of frozen and chilled branded and own label chicken products.
Working with Emydex
“The Emydex system is very efficient, easy to operate and works well for us. The full traceability we have gained saves masses of time – what used to take the QA department days to analyse is now instant. Emydex never say they can’t do something: they’ll listen and go away and come back with an answer, they always find a way.”
Heidi Dilliway-Nickson, Director with Forresters
Challenge
Forresters had the expertise, the market and the reputation to help them to take the business to the next level. The issue was with operations and one of the biggest hurdles was the fact that their existing production and billing systems were built in-house and not integrated to their back-office ERP system. In practical terms, the production lines couldn’t handle any more as they were currently configured.
Maintaining and updating the systems was costly with little support, resulting in an over-reliance on a few key individuals. In addition, Forrester’s was unable to report in real-time on their daily production, stocks, traceability, yields and costs.
Solution
Forresters managers and Emydex specialists worked closely together to work out how to blend the best technology with the company’s own expertise to create an operation that could upscale as needed. Forresters commissioned Emydex to develop a production management and traceability reporting system which would operate on the shop floor and in the back-office for data maintenance, analysis, trending and reporting.
We began with phase one which was the installation of our packing and processing module on a dozen shop floor weigh-price labelling packing terminals. The Emydex weighing and labelling software system for finished products features easy-to-use label design, compliant with all EU regulations.
With that up and running we moved on to phase two which covered the roll-out of a factory-wide solution that covered the entire line. It was designed to give full traceability from start to finish, from intake of the raw material by purchase order, defrosting, cooking, production work orders, marination, packing, analysis by retail line, full stock, yield and dispatch control and then on to Sage 200 accounts for invoicing.
Outcome
This system is now live on the factory floor, door-to-door including all of Forresters fixed weight lines. The biggest and most immediate benefit of the new Emydex system is the reduction of manual input which has eliminated the risk of human error. Packing is now fully automated and labels are printed automatically when the correct number and type of packs are in the box, saving time, resources and money.
Forresters now has complete visibility over their entire production management process. They are no longer reliant on key individuals to manage in-house systems and they have a full support team on hand should any issues arise.
Most importantly, the Emydex system provides management and supervisors with real-time and accurate reporting on factory stocks, production, as well full traceability reports.
Profitability is up, human error has been eliminated and the factory has scaled up as a direct result of the improvements in efficiency and production brought about by the Emydex solution.
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The organisation most of the world's Ostrich products
Established in 1985, Klein Karoo is the world’s largest Ostrich processor, producing 65% of all Ostrich-related products found on international markets. Klein Karoo represents more than 800 local farmer members, and produces ostrich meat, leather and feathers.
Klein Karoo supplies Ostrich meat, including the famous ‘fan fillet’ to the local South African market - as well as to a growing number of export markets including the UK, Denmark and Sweden. Here Klein Karoo’s pre-grilled Ostrich meat is today available in five of the largest retailers in Europe.
Klein Karoo were looking for a factory floor software solution to replace their existing production control systems and also requested a centralised enterprise system in order to maintain one “single version of the truth”.
The system they sought also needed to be agile and flexible so as to allow for scale and speed to incorporate business change such as acquisitions.
Working in conjunction with a South African Industrial Engineering Company (iPlan Global), Klein Karoo invited Emydex to tender in July 2015, for a factory floor software solution to replace their existing production control systems that were deemed to be end-of-life. Klein Karoo sought to adopt a “leapfrog” strategy in the selection of their new software system i.e., a technological solution appropriate for 2016 and beyond.
They also requested a centralised enterprise system in order to maintain one “single version of the truth”. Finally, the system they sought needed to be agile and flexible so as to allow for scale and speed to incorporate business change such as acquisitions.
What Klein Karoo Says
"The operators at both Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam had a positive experience with Emydex. The users at Swellendam saw the screens for the first time on the morning of go-live, and had no major issues transacting. The Emydex developers were very helpful during their visit and didn’t shy away from finding on-site solutions or the long hours."
Lezanne Bezuidenhout, Project Manager, Klein Karoo
Challenge
- Existing system reached end-of-life
- Not supported
- Inaccurate inventory data from the data collection system
- De-centralised system - no one source of the truth
- No integration to external systems
- Poor usability & user acceptance
Solution
Outcome
- Simpler & Faster system to use
- Embraced & adopted by operators
- Eliminated manual work
- Reduced human error significantly
- Central label management with previews
- Recipe system ensures consistency & quality of recipe formulations
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