Case Study: Integreater® at South Caernarfon Creameries
South Caernarfon Creameries are an award-winning business that produce cheese, milk, butter and cream for the UK’s leading supermarkets.
business goal
With a wide and varied product range, South Caernarfon Creameries are striving to maintain complete stock control and traceability. In order to achieve their business aims, management at the North Wales processing site have decided to invest in Integreater®.
Finance Director, Robert Burgess explains: “Our team have extensive experience with competing products and feel that Integreater® will enable us to take our business to a whole new level. The solution offers more functionality than a standard Manufacturing Execution System and unlike Enterprise Resource Planning software, it has been developed by food processing experts. Integreater® is a unique, long term solution, which will ensure that we have the flexibility to meet changing customer requirements and market conditions. It will enable us to develop the vision and understanding to drive our business into 2011 and beyond”.
how will it work?
Integreater® will replace SCC’s current methods of control, improving accuracy and efficiency. This will ensure complete process accountability and reduce stock holding. Staff will be able to view accurate, real-time data in order to pin-point important product information. This includes the age, grade, location and value of each item of stock.
The e-MES will automate the creamery’s grading and quality assurance system. It will update entire batch records with sample test results - no matter where products are located on their 37 acre site. This will significantly reduce labour requirements and played an important part in their decision to invest in the system.
Integreater’s precise measurement of product performance, throughput and giveaway were also important to SCC, as was it's ability to measure profit and loss for each of their customers, brands and products.
Located in the Llyn Peninsula, South Caernarfon Creameries is Wales’ leading farmer-owned dairy co-operative. Established in 1938, it has nearly 150 members that manufacture 10,500 tonnes of cheese and 12 million litres of milk a year. They supply a range of high quality dairy products to independent grocers, supermarkets and food service companies.
South Caernarfon Creameries won 14 awards in 2010 alone. They were also one of the first companies in the UK to reduce their carbon footprint by packing milk in bags. The business are accredited by the British Retail Consortium, Campden Laboratories, the Soil Association, Red Tractor, the Marks & Spencer 'A' List for critical raw materials and Investors in People. They have been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 for Quality Management Systems and the ISO 14001 for Environmental Management Systems.
