T. van der Plas grows and packs sprouts for retail. Fresh product, short lead times and a packing department with ten lines that has to run tightly every single day. The company worked in Exact and found us through our website, looking for a solution that actually drives the packing department.
The challenge
With fresh products, everything starts with today’s order: every sales order line must directly become a production order, visible on a planning board per packing line. Retailers order via EDI and expect invoices along the same route, with the correct GTIN per consumer and trade unit. And returnable packaging and deposits have to run along without manual work.
The approach
The kickstart method: fit-gap, then Sales, Inventory, Manufacturing and Accounting, with data import largely done by the team itself. The custom work sits where it counts: automatic production orders from order lines with their own production phases, deposit and returnable packaging registration on the sales order, extensive approval flows and the EDI connection to SPS Commerce for orders in and invoices out. Fixed weekly progress moments kept the project on course, and with Odoo Heartbeat the support is arranged afterwards.
The result
The packing department runs on the system instead of on experience and Excel: ten lines with a clear planning board, batches that can be traced and retailers that are served automatically. Exact has been waved goodbye.
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