Pet food manufacturer streamlines its processes

Australian food manufacturer Staughton Group has updated its business processes with the help of DXC Technology, a US-based B2B information technology service provider. The cloud-based JD Edwards Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) modernisation project delivered by DXC is designed to help streamline, automate and integrate business processes.

Staughton Group provides a complete end-to-end manufacturing and logistics solution to businesses in the food ingredient and retail sectors. Through its four key member entities, Staughton Group can collect, process, dry and manufacture ingredients for pet foods.

“Five years ago, we had seven administrative staff and now we have over 100. We were sending out one or two 40-foot containers a week to supply pet food to US manufacturers, whereas now it’s between 35 and 45 containers,” said Edward Staughton, Managing Director of Staughton Group.

“Our business was expanding very quickly, and we needed to consolidate and automate business operations to ensure competitive advantage.”

After completing a comprehensive requirements-gathering exercise where 500 tools were included for evaluation, Staughton Group issued an expression of interest (EOI) to 50 organisations. The responses received were rated and ultimately, DXC Red Rock was selected to implement Oracle’s modern JD Edwards Cloud ERP platform, delivered as a service and powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, to provide a reliable and scalable business platform.

Since implementation, the new cloud-based solution has increased efficiencies across financials, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, manufacturing planning, sales and advanced pricing, with mobility functionality on the production floor and warehouse. This transformation eliminates manual system tasks, ‘workarounds’ and siloed solutions to provide a modern user experience in a single platform for around 105 named users and 30 mobile device users.

“Previously, these business processes were incredibly labour-intensive and impractical. We now have the right foundations to empower people to do what they need to do thanks to the knowledge, expertise and dedication from the DXC team,” Staughton said.

“Having clear visibility and reporting on all business areas will open up a myriad of opportunities for us.”

Richard James, Practice Director, DXC Red Rock, said: “Staughton Group is a company with an amazing culture of collaboration and friendliness, and despite the project having to be implemented remotely, with a tight deadline of nine months, the teams successfully achieved a full transformation.”

In addition to delivering core business solution foundations, DXC now provides ongoing managed services to Staughton Group and offers insight into potential future application functionality.

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