Freshcut Foods Limited
Performance Management
Description and aims
The aim of the project is the analysis, design and development of integrated systems to deliver the tools and procedures to plan and control production, enhance customer service and improve production performance.
Critical to the success of the company is its ability to service the customer’s changing daily needs in a controlled and cost effective manner and to service the customer by minimising business interruption at best value. The key challenge that Freshcut Foods faces is efficiently achieving growing demands for fast response and high delivery performance as the company grows. With growth comes increased complexity and the associated waste. Freshcut’s existing planning control systems were inadequate and there was a need for the company to introduce new planning and control systems to address these issues.
The company identified a requirement to develop an integrated planning and control system capable of supporting the immediate and longer-term requirements of the business.
About Freshcut Foods Limited
Freshcut Foods Ltd manufactures fresh high-care/ high-risk vegetable and carbohydrate components for blue chip food manufacturers and food service customers. Products are distributed directly to their customers on a daily basis. Key customers include Bakavor, Northern Foods, Buckingham Foods and Morrisons.
How the project is being undertaken
- Production planning and control concepts, tools and techniques geared to the management of volatile demand – more specifically the development of buffer management systems to manage variation and uncertainty and focus improvement.
- The practical application of development of logistics systems.
- Information systems design and development.
- Operations strategy and supply chain management – extending internal concepts to managing vendor stocks directly.
For more information about the project
If you would like more information on this project please contact Roy Stratton, Lead Academic, Nottingham Business School
Email: roy.stratton@ntu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0115 848 2715
Duration
September 2005 to September 2007
University
Academic Lead
Roy Stratton and Dr Ian Allison
Nottingham Business School, School of Computing and Informatics
Contact
0115 848 2715