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News Release from: APV | Subject: Protean ERP system
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 May 2004
Brouwerij Martens creates a brewery of
the future
Brouwerij Martens is working with Invensys APV to streamline the company's business by improving the efficiency of the business and production processes
Brouwerij Martens is working with Invensys APV to streamline the company's business by improving the efficiency of the business and production processes Privately owned since 1758 and based in Bocholt, Belgium, Brouwerij Martens is the fourth-largest brewer in the country, producing 10 basic beers with a portfolio of 200 finished products
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brouwerij Martens has a business strategy to be the lowest-cost producer in the highly volatile, private label beer market.
This market is characterised by high volumes, low margins, and constantly changing customer requirements, especially with regard to packaging.
In working with Invensys, Brouwerij Martens have been able to enhance the company's existing ICT strategy to improve internal vertical integration from process through supply chain, integration with vendors and customers through collaborative commerce, collaborative production systems and technological standardisation.
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Jan Martens, Logistics Manager at Brouwerij Martens, comments: "To support these strategies, we were looking for real-time, accurate reflections of operational results that would enable us to make proper business decisions.
For this, we needed a system that could model the fully integrated value chain, from the truck carrying malt to supply the brewery, to the unit of finished product that leaves the warehouse, to a customer".
Paul Bloemen, Director ICT for Brouwerij Martens, explains the benefits of working with Invensys to implement the Protean ERP system supplied by Marcam: "The system provides us with a high user acceptance and a high standard fit in support of the full brewing business - from production to customer sales".
Contributing to this was the Protean Production Model and advanced process characteristics for handling returnable packaging, excise duties, and taxes, all specifically designed for food and beverage manufacturers.
"Drilling down to the functional benefits of Protean, we have seen significant advantages in optimised inventory levels, integration of our beer planning processes, the ability to easily handle co- and by-products and recycled products, and the ability to handle both process (brewing, fermentation) and discrete (packaging) operations in the same system.
We have been able to reduce our overall inventory value by up to 30 percent and have achieved a flow of better and faster management information.
In combination with a better planning system, this significantly helped us improve customer service".
Brouwerij Martens is now looking to take further steps in the realisation of a complete process-to-boardroom approach to better link Protean with the production layer.
With Invensys APV help, this should bring Brouwerij Martens well ahead of its competitors in integrating a closed production loop, cost optimisation, and online lot tracking and tracing, throughout the full value chain.
The new collaborative production systems will be built around ArchestrA, the new unified Plant Application Architecture developed by Invensys based on Microsoft.NET architecture.
Combining the versatile ArchestrA infrastructure with APV expertise in the brewery process will deliver improved plant intelligence and integration with the Protean ERP system.
Today, Invensys is the only automation, controls and process solutions supplier that is bringing together the distinct disciplines of ERP, shop floor control and domain expertise in the food and beverage industries into one single solution.
With this deployment, Invensys APV is bringing new levels of manufacturing collaboration and real-time visibility of costs and inventory across the enterprise.
Today, production flexibility requirements are constantly increasing, resulting in manufacturing capacity utilisation complications.
This solution will give Brouwerij Martens tighter manufacturing cycle times, improved inventory turns and capacity utilisation of the brew house.
In addition the Invensys solution will help to eliminate erroneous data and provide compliance to the new EC178 lot traceability regulation.
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