CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a global provider of
enterprise software applications and services, today announced that
Boots Contract Manufacturing (BCM), a member of the Alliance Boots
group of companies, has implemented CDC Factory as its
manufacturing operations management (MOM) system. BCM intends to
use CDC to help drive productivity improvements and cost savings
throughout its manufacturing plant.
BCM, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of beauty and
healthcare products, including toothpaste, deodorant and cosmetics,
and the iconic No.7 European brand, has gone live with CDC Factory
at its Nottingham, U.K. plant in less than six weeks
BCM has been a leader in developing and manufacturing health and
beauty products since 1935 when its first U.K. factory was opened.
It now has its original manufacturing facility in Nottingham, U.K.
along with sites in Vitre, France; Frankfurt, Germany and one
assembly plant in Walbrzych, Poland. BCM produces more than 5,000
different types of products representing 350 million units every
year.
Installing the CDC Factory software was part of BCM’s
operational excellence program, which targets cost saving
initiatives across the U.K. factory. A Factory Profit Audit
conducted jointly by CDC Factory and the BCM factory team
identified areas it believed could generate immediate cost savings
and an estimated six percent efficiency improvement across its
factory lines when leveraging CDC Factory for accessing key
operating metrics, such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness
(OEE).
After evaluating CDC Factory, the team recognized the benefits
of empowering the shop floor teams with real-time intelligence and
performance metrics which encouraged immediate actionable decisions
to be made.
Steve Parr, BCM Factory general manager said, “We chose CDC
Factory after a thorough evaluation process of several products
which we believe revealed that CDC Factory was truly the only
packaged solution. We also liked how the CDC Factory team
understood and focused on the importance of achieving real return
on investment (ROI) and systematic cost reductions quickly.
“CDC Factory has gone live within the six week time line and we
are now focused on delivering real savings on the plant floor
quickly. After the CDC Factory Profit Audit, we realized that CDC
Factory has been designed with shop floor workers in mind and
empowers them to take ownership of improvement opportunities.”
“I am delighted that BCM joins our growing list of world class
manufacturers implementing CDC Factory as part of their continuous
improvement initiatives to drive down costs and improve plant
performance,” said Mark Sutcliffe, president of CDC Factory product
line, CDC Software.
CDC Factory is a packaged manufacturing operations management
system that transforms manufacturing performance by empowering
people to make real-time actionable decisions. It combines shop
floor data capture, paperless quality management, packaged metrics
like Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), manufacturing analytics
and executive scorecards. Pre-built continuous Improvement
capabilities combined with an implementation model focused on
business transformation means organizations can deliver improvement
results rapidly from project commencement.
About Boots Contract Manufacturing
A member of the Alliance Boots group of companies, Boots
Contract Manufacturing (BCM) has been producing high quality health
and beauty products at its United Kingdom (UK) manufacturing plant
since 1935. During this time BCM has created many famous Boots
brands both in the U.K. and in international markets. These include
No.7 and 17 color cosmetics, the Soltan sun care range, Natural
Collection and Botanics. Boots Contract Manufacturing produces and
develops a wide range of high quality products for internal and
external customers.
About CDC Factory
CDC Factory is a packaged manufacturing operations management
system that transforms manufacturing performance by empowering
people to make real-time actionable decisions. By standardizing the
best practices of lean manufacturing, OEE (Overall Equipment
Effectiveness) and continuous improvement, CDC Factory provides a
real-time framework that integrates scheduling, operations, quality
and maintenance. Specifically designed for food and beverage,
pharmaceutical packaging and consumer packaged goods manufacturers,
CDC Factory enables real-time decision making to support a
demand-driven strategy at all levels in the organization, from
factory floor operators to executive management. Leading
manufacturers are using CDC Factory to reduce operating costs and
waste, unlock hidden capacity, improve customer service and
employee satisfaction, while minimizing risk by assuring regulatory
compliance. For more information, visit:
www.cdcfactory.com.
About CDC Software
CDC Software (NASDAQ: CDCS), The Customer-Driven Company™, is a
provider of enterprise software applications and a full range of
services designed to help organizations deliver a superior customer
experience, while increasing efficiencies and profitability.
Leveraging a service-oriented architecture (SOA), CDC Software
offers multiple delivery options for their solutions including
on-premise, hosted, cloud-based SaaS or blended-hybrid deployment
offerings. CDC Software’s solutions include enterprise requirements
planning (ERP), manufacturing operations management, enterprise
manufacturing intelligence, supply chain management (demand
management, order management and warehouse and transportation
management), e-Commerce, human capital management, customer
relationship management (CRM), complaint management and aged care
solutions.
CDC Software has made numerous successful acquisitions over the
years as part of its “acquire, integrate, innovate and grow”
strategy. Fueling the success of this strategy is the
company’s global scalable business and technology platform
that features an infrastructure of multiple complementary
applications and services, domain expertise in vertical markets,
cost effective product engineering centers in India and China, a
highly collaborative and fast product development process utilizing
Agile methodologies, and a worldwide network of direct sales and
channel operations. This strategy has helped CDC Software deliver
innovative and industry-specific solutions to more than 6,000
customers worldwide within the manufacturing, distribution,
transportation, retail, government, real estate, financial
services, health care, and not-for-profit industries. For more
information, please visit www.cdcsoftware.com.
About CDC Corporation
The CDC family of companies includes CDC Software (NASDAQ: CDCS)
focused on enterprise software applications and services, CDC
Global Services focused on IT consulting services, and outsourced
R&D and application development, CDC Games focused on online
games, and China.com, Inc. (HKGEM:8006) focused on portals for the
greater China markets. For more information about CDC Corporation
(NASDAQ: CHINA), please visit www.cdccorporation.net.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, and includes statements relating to our beliefs
regarding our solutions’ ability to help BCM or our other customers
expand business, increase capacity, reduce costs, engage
workforces, increase line efficiencies, improve labor utilization,
reduce changeover times, address variability and minor stops,
standardize metrics and data, our beliefs regarding CDC Factory’s
ability to provide real-time workforce empowerment and real-time
visibility into operating metrics, beliefs regarding the
suitability of CDC Factory for any particular business or customer,
our ability to manage change within an organization and incorporate
best practices, our beliefs regarding the adoption of CDC Factory
by food manufacturers and the reasons therefore, our ability to
continue to grow in the future and focus on the global food
manufacturing industry, the ability of CDC Factory to address the
needs of process manufacturers such as the ability improve
efficiencies, improve production, yields, feedback, visibility and
accountability into plant floor, metrics, operations and customer
order fill rates, the ability of our products to provide key
functionality, allow better decision making, drive cost savings and
provide competitive advantages, reduce downtime due to
inefficiency, improve changeover time, portion control and
accountability, increase output, throughput and accuracy of
root-cause analyses, realize additional cost savings, operating
margins and competitive advantages, the ease and timing of
deploying our solutions, and the ability to realize upfront value
using our products and other statements we may make. These
statements are based on management's current expectations and are
subject to risks and uncertainties and changes in circumstances.
There are important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking
statements including, among others: the conditions of market; the
continued ability of CDC Factory solutions to address process
manufacturer's business requirements; demand for and market
acceptance of new and existing manufacturing operations management
solutions; and development of new functionalities which would allow
companies to compete more effectively. Further information on risks
or other factors that could cause results to differ is detailed in
our filings or submissions with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission, and those of our ultimate parent company, CDC
Corporation. All forward-looking statements included in this press
release are based upon information available to management as of
the date of the press release, and you are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on any forward looking statements which speak only
as of the date of this press release. The company assumes no
obligation to update or alter the forward looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Historical results are not indicative of future performance.
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