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Case Study – Ready Foods

Customer Company Size

Mid-size Company

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

ProcessPro ERP
Warehouse Management Solution (WMS)
Dock Scheduler
Research and Development (R&D)
Business Intelligence (BI)

Tech Stack

UNIX

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Productivity Improvements
Cost Savings

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Functional Applications - Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Applicable Industries

Food & Beverage

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Warehouse & Inventory Management
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

In 1972, Ready Foods began producing Mexican food for restaurants and retail outlets in the Denver area. Over the years, Ready Foods has expanded and evolved from a manufacturer of Mexican food to becoming a custom food processor, producing a wide variety of products for restaurants nationwide. Ready Foods manufactures savory sauces, beans, salsas, soups, dressings, gravies, deli spreads, stuffings, meat and vegetable fillings and tortillas. The company has experienced extensive growth and expansions over the years.

The Challenge

Ready Foods was previously utilizing a UNIX system for 15 years that they simply outgrew. They required a system that would facilitate all process manufacturing and business operations functions in a unified system to stay competitive in their growing industry. The company was experiencing an essential need for a software system that would be able to meet their long-term needs and grow with them. Their previous system required them to halt operations for 24 hours to manually count inventory levels. They would then spend over a week keying in the data to find where they had lost inventory from one period to the next. This process not only led to a loss in time and money, but was unreliable.

The Solution

Ready Foods spent over a year reviewing 12-15 ERP solutions, narrowing to six, before selecting ProcessPro as their software of choice. ProcessPro embodied similar characteristics of Ready Foods, in that personal relationships were essential to building strong partnerships. Ready Foods implemented the ProcessPro ERP solution in February 2012. ProcessPro has enabled Ready Foods to save time and increase accuracy of inventory, eliminate dual data entry and increase quality control standards. The company also utilized software add-on applications such as Warehouse Management Solution (WMS), Dock Scheduler, Research and Development (R&D), and Business Intelligence (BI).

Operational Impact

With the use of ProcessPro’s physical inventory and WMS, Ready Foods has been able to eliminate the lag time in inventory counts, access real-time inventory updates and determine on-hand, allocated and projected inventory levels.
ProcessPro has also aided in decreasing the amount of time it takes to produce variance reports. Previously, the reports were taking 3 days to produce and calculate and are now available within 12 hours for Ready Foods to utilize in production planning.
With the use of ProcessPro, this growing food manufacturer is able to control the quality of its products beginning with incoming raw materials, through ingredient manufacturing, all the way to final packaging.
Ready Foods’ clients, many of which are national restaurant chains, place high regard on the quality and consistence of their end products. With the help of ProcessPro, they have been able to consistently produce high quality, fresh products and are able to comply with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.

Quantitative Benefit