The nutritional industry is one of Adifo’s target sectors and one in which mergers and acquisitions are ever-present as the market continues to consolidate. NWF Group are a specialist agricultural and distribution business delivering feed, food and fuel across the UK. NWF Agriculture is a successful member of the group and one of the largest UK suppliers of ruminant animal feed, with customers in all the major dairy farming areas from Scotland to Cornwall. Complementing NWF’s manufacture and supply of ruminant compound feeds and blends, is a comprehensive third party product range including straights, speciality feeds, forage seeds and additives.
Consistent with NWF Group’s continued strategic focus on the UK’s agriculture market, NWF Agriculture acquired S.C. Feeds in November 2013 and Jim Peet Agriculture in February 2016.
A challenging integration in Microsoft Dynamics AX
NWF Agriculture has operated from a MILAS AX system (powered by Microsoft Dynamics AX) since June 2014. Following the Jim Peet acquisition, NWF required a full integration of both businesses prior to the start of their new financial year in June 2016. As a long-term partner, Adifo supports their growth and as such, implemented both acquired companies in MILAS AX in just three months.
The integration project began in March 2016 when Adifo started with an analysis of the current business processes of both companies. Due to the comprehensive feature set of Adifo’s MILAS AX solution for the feed and food industry and our profound knowledge of the sector, their processes could be investigated, optimized and integrated into NWF’s existing MILAS AX system in such a short timeframe.
“For Adifo this integration was a challenging but important project as continuing to support our customers and being a reliable long-term partner is one of our core values. In just three months we managed to optimize both companies’ logistic flows, facilitate their sales pricing structure, developed few customizations and migrated all data from the legacy ERP systems. We are truly proud to successfully complete this migration project on time and in budget.” – says Adam Sneep, CEO of Adifo Software.
“The acquisition of Jim Peet is an important part of our strategic objectives and the integration of this and our previous acquisition of S.C. Feeds was key to realizing the benefits. This project was much more than a system integration as our number one focus is always our customers. It was paramount that the top class service they experience through each of the NWF, S.C. Feeds and Jim Peet brands remained unchanged by a change of system. The project deadline was an additional challenge as we had only three months to train users, migrate data and implement the new brands and workflows in MILAS AX. Adifo’s support in each of these areas was invaluable.” says Rob Thomas, Financial Director of NWF Agriculture.
