IDM ¦ Technology/IT
No more "jumble of little buttons”
The integration and training of the specialised departments represents
one of the biggest success factors of the project. After all, it
was necessary to transfer all the individual solutions and makeshift
tools of the colleagues into a uniform solution. A "jumble of hundreds
of small buttons" was thus transformed into a stringent user
guidance system that is also fully documented. "The prerequisite
for this step was, of course, that the standard functions of the
GUS-OS Suite provided all the technical functions that we need as
a food company," Manuel Diener emphasises.
Natürli Zürioberland AG
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In this respect, the ERP introduction also meant a standardisation
of the business processes – a process that is never completely
finished, especially since the company continues to grow and the
processes also change continuously as a result. One advantage of
the GUS-OS Suite for such process changes is its Workflow Designer:
With the help of this central tool, Barille, Diener and their team
can make adjustments without interfering with the programme
code. This in turn significantly increases the maintainability of the
system. "And if we did come across very special features, such
as the connection of our weighing system, GUS programmed this
within the standard framework of the solution," reports Gino Barille.
Today, the solution is supported and lived by the entire team
at Natürli Zürioberland, also because it runs in a stable and failsafe
manner. In addition, the individual departments appreciate
the fact that they now have a common database: What the sales
department sees, the logistics department sees as well. This saves
a lot of time and redundancies and avoids many errors, so that, for
example, less goods have to be written off. Last but not least, the
new solution frees up a lot of resources, which the technical staff
can now use more for their core tasks.
IT base promotes new business ideas
Barille and Diener also see their company as better equipped for
the future: It now has the necessary foundation to optimise and
expand further business processes. Process and quantity expansions
can be carried out easily and quickly with the help of the
GUS-OS Suite – without programming knowledge.
"In the past, we could not implement many business ideas,
or only with great difficulty, because it was simply not possible to
map them in our software," recalls IT manager Barille. "Today, on
the other hand, it's the other way round: the ERP solution partly
gives us new ideas because the range of functions is very large and
tailored to our industry. In this respect, our new ERP implementation
is much more than just a software change. It offers the entire
company many new possibilities far beyond IT."
Manuel Diener, Head of Logistics
at Natürli Zürioberland AG:
"The standard functions of the
GUS-OS Suite provide all those
specialist functions that we need
as a food company."
(photo: Natürli Zürioberland AG)
Natürli Zürioberland AG sells selected regional cheese specialities from
commercial cheese dairies under the "natürli" label. The company also
produces high-quality dairy products and cottage cheese at its own dairy
in Saland in the Tösstal valley. natürli cheese and natürli dairy products are
available at numerous retailers, in the company's 15 humidors, from major
distributors and in the natürli online shop.
The history of Natürli Zürioberland AG goes back to the 1990s. At that time,
the association "Käsereivereinigung der Region Zürcher Berggebiete" was
founded to promote the production and sale of cheese, dairy products and
specialities from the Zürcher Berggebiete region. The aim was to secure
the livelihood of the village cheese dairies and to preserve the associated
traditional cheese culture in the region. Thus, since 1995, Natürli Zürioberland
AG has offered a comprehensive range of high-quality cheeses and dairy
products from small regional cheese dairies. (photo: Natürli Zürioberland AG)
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