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CASE STUDY
Noble Foods embrace the cloudAudit data is captured in real time on mobile devices- wherever the location.
The Client
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Noble FoodsEstablished in 1920, Noble Foods is the leading supplier of fresh eggs to the major retailers, individually grading, packing and delivering more than 72 million eggs to customers each week.
Popular egg brands by Noble Foods include The Happy Egg Company, Big & Fresh Eggs, and the Posh Birds range of specialty eggs. Noble Foods also produces a wide range of the finest egg products for the food service, food manufacturers, bakers and caterers.
With a turnover of over £600 million and over 1,700 employees, Noble Foods continues to grow from strength to strength, with growth focused on products such as Gü Chocolate Puds.*
“What’s great about LINKFRESH is that it has been designed specifically for the fresh food industry.”
AVRIL RITCHIEContracts Supplies Farms Auditor at Noble Foods
*visit https://www.noblefoods.co.uk/ for more information on Noble Foods
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The Business NeedThe company required a flexible, easily configurable cloud-based solution to replace a predominantly paper-based process for farm audits.
A solution was needed that could link an improved audit and data capture process to a wide range of internal and regulatory reporting for increased efficiency and improved data integrity.
Noble Foods had already deployed the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP solution to several of its business units, utilizing the integrated LINKFRESH Food Supply Chain solution.
Field based auditors required a flexible solution for data capture on mobile devices, such as iPads, to provide reliable and real-time information generated from both the regular and ad hoc audit visits conducted throughout the supply base.
Previous methods to manage the audits and the associated reporting saw a significant amount of time spent on paperwork, photocopying, scanning and use of spread sheets to analyse and report on a wide range of key performance and regulatory measures.
Noble Foods needed a solution to deliver an integrated package with cloud-based features which could, in the future, be interfaced with existing in-house systems.
The Solution
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The LINKFRESH Cloud Quality Assurance (QA) food supply chain management application was deployed for the task as Noble Foods wanted a future proof solution that would scale to a changing set of business requirements.
The BenefitsThe LINKFRESH Cloud QA solution was implemented at Noble Foods and resulted in audits being made immediately available online across a range of platforms.
The data is then synchronized via the Cloud to a central database. The beauty of the system is that it can work offline through its Drizzle replication technology. A user can undertake QA surveys in areas with no phone network or WIFI service. Once the data is captured it is stored securely on the device until such a time where service is available.
LINKFRESH has expanded its leading Drizzle replication technology to work across the latest generation of tablet and phone devices in order to synchronize securely to The Cloud. The Cloud service for this application is provided by Microsoft using its Azure platform, and is available worldwide.
As Noble Foods had already invested in a Microsoft infrastructure and deployed the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP solution, the decision to utilize the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform was an easy one.
The LINKFRESH Cloud-based QA application captures good manufacturing practice (GMP) audit data from the farms. The audits are designed to check and report on a large range of key factors relating to facilities and their conditions, hygiene procedures and outcomes, and through the on-screen questionnaire, captures all the data (including photographs and videos if required).
The results are then available online for company-wide access across computers and mobile devices. The captured data forms the basis of Noble Foods’ GMP audit requirements.
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The Results
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The ability to input more information in real-time meant that accuracy and consistency was increased.
This faster process dramatically increased the efficiency of the auditing tasks and saved a vast amount of time spent on paperwork. The ability to calculate the audit scores in real-time meant the score reached the producer much sooner than prior to using LINKFRESH.
Noble Foods was impressed with the food industry component included with the LINKFRESH solution and the scope it provides for future expansion.
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Avril Ritchie, contracts supplies farms auditor at Noble Foods, said:
“What’s great about LINKFRESH is that it has been designed specifically for the fresh food industry with the required functionality for product tracing and ‘sell by/best by’ monitoring and controls.
“The cloud-based QA application supplied by LINKFRESH met our requirements for ease of deployment, flexibility of design and configuration and the provision of ‘connector software’ to integrate the cloud application to our on-premise LINKFRESH Microsoft Dynamics ERP solution, which provided an added value benefit.
“Eliminating the need for paperwork and countless spread sheets has meant that tasks can now be completed much faster and more efficiently, whilst reducing inaccuracies.”
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The FutureFollowing the success of the implementation of LINKFRESH Cloud Quality Assurance, Noble Foods is looking into the suitability of the application for other parts of the Group.
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