With the global recession continuing, Intersnack is finding consumers increasing their in-home snack consumption. As a result, Intersnack expects that CDC Factory will help them 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 of Intersnack NL, commented, "Our immediate challenge is to meet the rising consumer demand for our 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. 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 us to begin delivering financial benefits within about 12 weeks from project commencement. I fully expect to realize substantial efficiency savings within months of starting the project."
