Baiada chases more cluck for its buck with streamlined software

With extensive farming and operation sites, Baiada is one of the largest poultry operators in Australia, with business operations that include broiler and breeder farms, hatcheries, processing plants, cooking plants, feed milling and protein recovery.

Baiada currently operates separate business management systems for:

• financials and scheduling — general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, cash management and manufacturing planning
• inventory management and order fulfilment
• accounts receivable — sales order entry, customer invoicing and similar

To improve business performance and flexibility, Baiada will streamline its three business software systems into a single platform, deploying Sage X3 from Sage Business Solutions.

“Our business is one of constant change, and we need systems that enable us to implement changes to our business very quickly. A key criteria for us was to avoid a situation where a change in our business or marketplace would require us to go through a three- to six-month process to make changes within the system. Our business can and will experience significant changes from one week to another, and we have to be able to react very quickly and respond with agility. We can’t risk being caught out by support systems that don’t move at our pace,” said Craig Ford, national IT manager, Baiada.

As well as providing improved flexibility and functionality, the new business management software has been chosen to help make it easier for customers to interact with Baiada, enabling the company to offer differentiated and innovative services.

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