Digitisation brings major
benefits for poultry specialist
A bespoke IT system from food and a buffer inventory to create a perfect intelligent business management,
drink specialist CSB-System has helped balance throughout the push and pull of covering areas such as inventory
a Slovenian poultry processor to double production. consumption, sales figures and
its growth, improve cost-efficiency and
increase production volume by 40%.
production volumes.
The processed animals are now packed
into crates and transferred to the Key benefits for Pivka are a fast and
Today Pivka Perutninarstvo d.d. has a warehouse on a single-item basis; from significantly more efficient operation
turnover of €38 million and has become there they are moved just in time to than a few years ago. In particular, the
Number Two in the Slovenian poultry the lines for packing and labelling. The interaction between the ERP system,
market. process is overseen using CSB-Inventory buffer inventory and data entry points
Management which acts as the central helps to make processing of the orders
Key to achieving these operational control unit to ensure that the correct a lot less stressful. Equally important,
improvements was to overcome the raw materials go to the right lines. Pivka can better fulfil the wishes of
challenge of the time gap of several
its customers in terms of availability
hours that existed at Pivka between On each line a CSB-Rack® workstation, and freshness thanks to the improved
the slaughter of the animals and the which combines automated data capture reconciliation of data on inventory,
processing of customer orders. While for weighing, pricing and labelling in a capacity and demand.
slaughtering starts at 5am, the first single operation, ensures maximum orders do not come in until after 1pm. transparency of operations through “When we introduced the CSB-System
This had led to extreme peaks and online communication with the ERP here, we were a very small company
inefficient processes in the production system in order to provide staff with in the Slovenian market,” comments
and packing departments. the relevant data for order processing. Janez Rebec, Managing Director, Pivka
At the same time, all data originating Perutninarstvo d.d. “But in the last ten
In collaboration with CSB, Pivka in production are transferred directly years, we’ve been growing twice as
therefore sought to establish an to the ERP system. This real time data much compared to the past, also with
all-encompassing digitisation and flow, with information available at the the help of CSB.”
optimisation solution. This involved touch of a button, enables managers the combination of an ERP system and to keep track of activities, and provides
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