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PROFILE
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David Figg
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Organisation: Sundora Foods.
Interviewee: David Figg.
Job Title: Finance and IT Director.
The Subject: Food supplier Sundora has switched from integrated production planning software to individual ‘best of breed’ packages.
PERSONAL FILE
NAME: David Figg.
BACKGROUND: David is responsible for all finance and IT at Sundora Foods. This includes preparing three-year budget plans and managing the commercial and financial risks of the company, as well as project managing the implementation of the new production system and all its components. He was previously finance and IT director at niche food manufacturing business Kernels Snack Products, within the Harrington Food Group, and before that has worked as financial controller in both the media and aerospace industries.
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Q: WHAT LED SUNDORA FOODS TO ADOPT ITS NEW PRODUCTION PLANNING
SYSTEM?
A: Two to three years ago, we were facing a number of pressures, including issues with stock control. We had a computer system, Formul8 from Sanderson Cotswold, which was food sector oriented but we hadn’t been able to build on that system. We weren’t able to implement MRP or some of the quality control side – the maintainers had failed to deliver on those aspects of the system.
So we had no MRP driving our planning, it was based on stock holdings. Planners were trying to keep up-to-date with 600 products by topping up our stockholdings, which was adding a significant cost.
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