CDC Software’s CDC Factory Solution to Be Implemented at a CDC Ross ERP Food Manufacturing Customer
April 08 2010 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a global provider of
enterprise software applications and services, today announced it
will be implementing CDC Factory’s manufacturing operations
management (MOM) system at U.K.-based Natures Way. This represents
the latest in the company’s strong cross-selling activities between
the CDC Ross ERP and CDC Factory products.
Chichester, U.K.-based Natures Way Foods is a long-time user of
Ross ERP and plans to implement CDC Factory at its Runcton and
Selsey, U.K. plants.
Natures Way Foods is a leader in fresh produce manufacturing
that includes prepared bagged salads and fruit products to major
retail and food service companies. Natures Way plans to use CDC
Factory to transition from their existing ‘Daily, Weekly
Operational Reporting’ (DWOR) structure to a real-time environment.
Natures Way believes that the move to hourly, short interval
control practices and the use of real-time metrics such as OEE,
throughput and cost per case will help focus their shop floor teams
on achieving its highest levels of plant performance.
CDC Factory presents information instantaneously at a stock
keeping unit (SKU) and production line level in a relevant and easy
to understand format for factory workers, which enables them to
make timely adjustments and measure immediate improvements on the
plant floor. This also stimulates accountability and provides
production managers with detailed performance statistics and root
causes of efficiencies for their mid-shift and end-of-shift
meetings.
“Our continued growth demands required us to unlock greater
capacity from our existing equipment and people,” said Richard
Parr, head of Operations. “We realized our existing measurement and
control tools could no longer support our mounting requirements in
this area. We believe that CDC Factory will help us follow short
interval control methods that are expected to help us improve plant
capacity.”
“We are delighted that CDC Factory product suite continues to
expand into the Ross customer base and will be implemented at this
stellar food producer,” said Mark Sutcliffe, President of CDC
Factory product line of CDC Software. “We believe the complementary
fit between ERP and real-time factory intelligence offers a rapid
route to margin expansion and efficiency improvements. This is
achieved by empowering the hourly paid workforce to take immediate
action on what is happening on the plant floor. We are looking
forward to having the opportunity to implement CDC Factory at other
CDC Ross customers.”
CDC Factory combines Shop Floor Data Capture, packaged metrics
like OEE, analytics and scorecards, Continuous Improvement
capabilities and paperless Quality Management. This technology is
combined with a change method that focuses on developing a
structure of daily performance reviews to help drive better
performance in every run and every shift of every day. The process
helps operators to develop their skills so they are better able to
drive their own improvements. Since it is an out of the box
solution, CDC Factory is usually deployed in four to six weeks per
factory, helping to ensure project momentum and rapid savings.
Natures Way joins an ever expanding Ross customer group that
includes Berner Foods, Litehouse Foods, Nellson Nutraceuticals and
Breyers Yogurt.
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 Software as a Service (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’s recent acquisitions are part of its “acquire,
integrate, innovate and grow” strategy. Fueling the success of this
strategy is the company’s global scalable business and
technology infrastructure featuring 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.
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 CDC Factory’s solutions' ability to help our customers
expand business, increase capacity, reduce costs, engage
workforces, increase line efficiencies, improve labor utilization,
standardize metrics and data, provide real-time workforce
empowerment and real-time visibility into operating metrics, our
beliefs regarding the ability to realize upfront value using our
products, our expectations regarding customer implementations,
including the timing, expected benefit and possible gains relating
thereto, our beliefs regarding customer and industry needs and
preferences, beliefs about improvements to efficiency and short
interval control practices and the use of real-time metrics, our
beliefs regarding our ability to cross-sell between CDC Factory and
other CDC Software product lines 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. Results will vary from
customer to customer given their particular facts and
circumstances. 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, located at www.sec.gov. 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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