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Intersnack Takes Bite out of Costs with Manufacturing Operations Management Solution
Leading global snack manufacturer to implement CDC Factory solution to help meet increased demand for snacks as part of trend in the global recession
Atlanta — April 1, 2009 — Global snack manufacturer Intersnack is set to implement a manufacturing operations management and intelligence solution from CDC Corporation at its two plants in the Netherlands to help increase capacity, improve efficiency, reduce costs and further strengthen the company's Lean manufacturing initiatives.
With the global recession continuing, Intersnack is finding consumers increasing their in-home snack consumption. As a result, Intersnack expects that the CDC Factory solution will help it take advantage of this increased demand without making costly additional capital expenditures.
Intersnack is expected to implement CDC Factory at its Doetinchem and Hardinxveld plants in the Netherlands. The food manufacturer also plans to use CDC Factory as a platform to standardize its daily work control practices, as well as its successful Lean manufacturing practices already in place, which is expected to further improve employee productivity with its hourly workforce.
As part of the CDC Factory Profit Audit, a CDC Software service that identifies specific financial opportunities and improvement targets for a plant before implementation begins, it was estimated that Intersnack could potentially improve overall plant efficiency by approximately 10 percent annually after completion of its implementation of CDC Factory.
Arjan Lammers, managing director of operations for Intersnack NL, noted that the company's immediate challenge is to meet the rising consumer demand for its in-home products while offsetting price pressure.
"As a pre-packaged solution, CDC Factory comes with real-time intelligence and built-in action and review cycles that means our workforce is expected to be able to drive significant improvements immediately," Lammers said.
The "Factory Profit Audit" undertaken by the CDC Software team established a very specific performance target for each site and set a clear implementation roadmap that should enable the company to begin delivering financial benefits within about 12 weeks from project commencement, Lammers added. "I fully expect to realize substantial efficiency savings within months of starting the project," Lammers concluded.
Intersnack Group is the result of a 2008 combination of Intersnack Knabber-Gebäck GmbH & Co. KG and The Nut Company. This pan-European group manufactures snacks in the categories of nuts, potato crisps, prefabricated chips, sheeted snacks, extruded and pellet products as well as crackers and pretzels.
With the global recession continuing, Intersnack is finding consumers increasing their in-home snack consumption. As a result, Intersnack expects that the CDC Factory solution will help it take advantage of this increased demand without making costly additional capital expenditures.
Intersnack is expected to implement CDC Factory at its Doetinchem and Hardinxveld plants in the Netherlands. The food manufacturer also plans to use CDC Factory as a platform to standardize its daily work control practices, as well as its successful Lean manufacturing practices already in place, which is expected to further improve employee productivity with its hourly workforce.
As part of the CDC Factory Profit Audit, a CDC Software service that identifies specific financial opportunities and improvement targets for a plant before implementation begins, it was estimated that Intersnack could potentially improve overall plant efficiency by approximately 10 percent annually after completion of its implementation of CDC Factory.
Arjan Lammers, managing director of operations for Intersnack NL, noted that the company's immediate challenge is to meet the rising consumer demand for its in-home products while offsetting price pressure.
"As a pre-packaged solution, CDC Factory comes with real-time intelligence and built-in action and review cycles that means our workforce is expected to be able to drive significant improvements immediately," Lammers said.
The "Factory Profit Audit" undertaken by the CDC Software team established a very specific performance target for each site and set a clear implementation roadmap that should enable the company to begin delivering financial benefits within about 12 weeks from project commencement, Lammers added. "I fully expect to realize substantial efficiency savings within months of starting the project," Lammers concluded.
Intersnack Group is the result of a 2008 combination of Intersnack Knabber-Gebäck GmbH & Co. KG and The Nut Company. This pan-European group manufactures snacks in the categories of nuts, potato crisps, prefabricated chips, sheeted snacks, extruded and pellet products as well as crackers and pretzels.
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