CDC’s MVI acquisition achieves record new orders
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IT conglomerate CDC, which owns food and beverage sector ERP firm Ross Systems and, since October last year, maintenance management software firm MVI, has been awarded three new contracts from leading food manufacturers for its new real-time performance management business.
Litehouse Foods, which makes salad dressings, sauces and dips, says it identified opportunities for improvements in production efficiency and order fulfilment rates, as well as reductions in overhead. Those will lead to a 30% reduction in raw material and packaging waste and save more than $1 million annually by reducing overhead costs.
“We are already a satisfied customer of the Ross Enterprise applications for planning, scheduling tracking and costing our manufacturing and inventory operations,” says John Shaw, director of IT at Litehouse.
“With these applications, we have already achieved significant improvements in terms of end-to-end traceability, enhanced quality control and reduced investments in inventory. The MVI real-time applications provide a great complement to our current systems and the CDC approach is excellent.”
The other MVI contracts are from an unnamed manufacturer of cheese products for retail and food service markets – expectations there include increasing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) by 9% and reducing overhead costs by 8% with a projected cost savings of more than $350,000 per year – and Nellson Nutraceutical, a manufacturer of nutrition bars and diet/weight loss, sports nutrition and body-building functional powders, which now expects to reduce overhead costs by more than $200,000 per year and increase the number of units produced per man-hour by 12%.
