Batch Industries

BATCH MANUFACTURING

Do your operations entail batch manufacturing processes? Make to order? Or to stock? Your business might even mix several modes of manufacturing depending on customer or market demands.

With IFS Applications you get the agility to handle your manufacturing requirements, whatever your needs are – and regardless of whatever direction your business takes in the future. Component-based and built on a service-orientated architecture, IFS Applications is designed for increased usability and higher productivity.

Testimonial

Butcher's Pet Care

Founded in 1987, Butcher’s Pet Care Ltd. is an independent pet food manufacturer, producing the leading dog food brand, Butcher’s, as well as Classic cat food and Olli dry cat food. Butcher’s Pet Care produces food of the highest quality, using only natural ingredients to ensure superior taste and perfectly balanced, complete meals for pets. All products are available in supermarkets, pet shops, and convenience stores across the UK.

Customer loyalty is still key to our success in the market. The new system will help us to ensure we remain a key brand for retailers and consumers.
David Costello, Head of Marketing

  • United Kingdom
  • Batch Manufacturing
  • Family-owned company with international reach

What they got

  • Advanced forecasting and demand planning capabilities
  • Increased visibility
  • Seamless connection between sales, production and warehouse
  • Smooth implementation with no business disruptions
  • Online analysis facilities and reporting capabilities
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Heaven Hill Distilleries

Heaven Hill

Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., of Bardstown, Kentucky, is the largest independent, family-owned marketer and producer of distilled spirits in the United States. The company is the second-largest holder of Kentucky bourbon in the world, with more than 650,000 barrels aging at any given time.

We have reduced the order lead time that we require from our customers by 30 percent as a result of the improved planning and operational capabilities that the new system provides us.
Allan Latts, Director of Corporate Planning

  • USA
  • Batch Manufacturing
  • 650,000 casks of bourbon ageing at any given time, with '000s of SKUs

What they got

  • Reduction of finished goods inventory by up to 20 percent
  • Reduction of customer order lead time by 30 percent
Testimonial

Jotun

Jotun

One of the world’s major manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings, the Jotun Group has 5,000 employees in 39 production facilities on all continents. In 2005 revenue amounted to US$ 1,042 million. Jotun develops, produces and sells cost-effective paint and coatings products, and provides customer service and technical support to residential, marine and industrial markets worldwide. The Jotun Group, divided into four business areas, is headquartered in Sandefjord, Norway.

We have already started to roll out parts of the solution internationally. Jotun sites worldwide have been given access to a master database which contains a considerable amount of data, including recipes – our most important assets.
Øyvind Hauge, head of business development

  • Norway
  • Batch Manufacturing
  • More than 7,000 employees and NKR, 11,703 million in revenue in 2008

What they got

  • More standardised business processes provide better control, greater efficiency, and enhanced global collaboration
  • Global solutions, such as a central database for recipes, ensure real-time access to relevant information worldwide
  • Industry solution creates conditions for a future-orientated IT strategy

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