Burts Potato Chips have a passion for great taste. The quest for the perfect British potato chip started 15 years ago with one single fryer and bags of enthusiasm. From its home in Devon, Burts has built a reputation for quality by carefully hand cooking crisps in small batches using only the finest natural ingredients. Today the company has grown to a healthy £13m turnover and its hard work has been rewarded with numerous awards from Winner of the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards to Taste of the West Gold 2012.
Access ERP has helped Burts Potato Chips achieve operational efficiency.
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A specialist tea business with UK-wide reach and a unique own-brand retail arm uses Access ERP to achieve their vision
Newcastle-based Ringtons is a 100+ year family owned company operating in two divisions: production and retail. The production division sources its teas worldwide, imports them into UK, stores, blends and packs them either for the Ringtons’ brand or for quality retailers such as M&S, Waitrose and Sainsbury. The retail division delivers Ringtons tea and related products to some 300,000 households around the country, through a network of 25+ sales points and a fleet of over 200 delivery vans
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The leading stockists of industrial standard and machine parts
As a major manufacturer and distributor of engineering components and mechanical machine accessories, WDS differentiates itself from the competition by its quality of service and very high stock availability.
"Access ERP is making a massive contribution to our ability to execute our strategy; our growth back from recession and our profitability firmly
demonstrates that, Access ERP is fundamentally ingrained in the business, helping everyone to do what they do to an excellent standard"
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Pacson Valves is a Dundee-based manufacturer of bespoke, high integrity valves for the oil and gas industry, employing 86 employees.
Pacson invested in Orchestrate production planning and scheduling software from Access Group.
Since it was implemented, Orchestrate has enabled day-to-day scheduling, capacity, what-if and scenario planning. The outdated planning board has been replaced with an online drag-and-drop Gantt chart which, due to its intuitive design, has been quickly adopted by the Pacson team. Pacson has 95% of deliveries now within one week and on-time delivery performance improved to 90% plus.
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Leading elastomer manufacturer Martin’s Rubber is seeing the benefits of advanced planning and scheduling on the shop floor after integrating Access ERP and Access Orchestrate Planning and Scheduling software with Mestec Manufacturing Execution Systems. Starting with accurate shop floor data collection (SFDC), these platforms have enabled the company to make better use of production capacity, optimise productivity, improve on-time delivery and maintain control of costs.
"Fundamentally, we now have confidence in the data we are collecting. Improving data accuracy from the factory into Access ERP has enabled us to get a handle on stock, labour and materials reporting."
Adam Hooper, Operations Director, Martin’s Rubber
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Surepharm Services LTD, is a contract manufacturer for pharmaceutical products. The business makes hundreds of unique solid dose tablets and packs at any one time. Surepharm also provides technical services such as research and development and product development. The business is in their 28th year (2018) with 120 employees, situated in Burton upon Trent, UK.
"With Access Orchestrate we have greater management, control and visualisation over orders. This has improved production, as well as heightened morale and collaboration."
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Spanning three generations of the Benton family, Coventry-based MNB Precision was established in 1980 and has grown to become a medium-sized company, employing around 85 people. Its annual turnover currently stands at £9million and growth forecasts are strong.
MNB Precision is one of Access Group’s longest standing customers and was among the first to deploy Access FactoryMaster MRP in the 1990s. Over the years, it has seen the software develop in line with its own business.
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Baseline Controls, Inc. located in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a planning and engineering consulting company, working with global firms in the pharmaceutical, hi-tech, construction and utility sectors. Its clients depend on mission-critical scheduling and planning to deliver projects – which could include anything from launching a new pharmaceutical drug or IT system to construction work or a facility shutdown. Drawing on years of industry experience, its consultants give time-pressed professionals within these companies the tools they need to deliver projects to the highest standard.
Using Access Orchestrate, Baseline Controls’ consultants were able to conduct a detailed analysis of capacity long before full production had begun. Once the model was built, and the level of demand identified, the team could show how long each batch run would take – and, crucially, highlight any areas where equipment was being over or under-utilised.
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Established 13 years ago, Irish Pressings is a major supplier to the automotive industry, working with Tier 1 and 2 manufacturers and high-profile end-customers such as Honda, Rolls Royce, BMW and Land Rover. The County Donegal-based firm develops press tools, automotive components, prototypes and welded assemblies, shipping them across the UK and Europe.
Before launching FactoryMaster MRP, Irish Pressings had no rigorous system in place to capture data and drive efficiencies, nor measure performance. Investing in new software always requires careful consideration, and Irish Pressings evaluated a number of options before choosing Access FactoryMaster MRP.
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