Mention the name Lotus and the first thing that comes to mind is its range of spicy Speculoos cookies. However, following the merger with Corona and a number of acquisitions large and small, the company’s product range has come to include much more than this famed cookie. Today the assortment runs to almost 100 recipes. To stay on top of these recipes and their ingredients, the company was compelled to invest in a suitable software package. Lotus Bakeries found the solution in Adifo’s “BESTMIX Food”, a package which began to pay for itself immediately after implementation…
The Lotus Bakeries assortment comes close to a hundred recipes, which together require about 250 ingredients. Els Van Parys, R&D manager explains: “The recent acquisitions suddenly added a large number of recipes to the list, making it difficult for us to manage everything efficiently. Another problem was that support was no longer available for our recipe management and nutritional calculation package and we were forced to resort to spreadsheets. Needless to say, this situation was untenable: not only was there the sheer variety of recipes and ingredients, but they were spread over no fewer than eleven production facilities! Having used SAP as an ERP package for years, we turned to that specialist IT company for a solution. They did indeed have a nutritional calculation module, but it soon turned out that a great deal of custom programming would be needed to tailor this package to our needs and requirements. Not only that, but in terms of user-friendliness the application came nowhere near the ‘BESTMIX Food’ package which Adifo presented to us at around the same time. And, after a second, more detailed demo of the Adifo package, we were sold on the product. Our Dutch colleagues were soon persuaded too. And it was obvious to us that Adifo’s consultants had a sound knowledge of the foodstuffs industry. Not only were they familiar with our internal terminology, but they needed only a few words to identify our needs and understand our queries.”
Extract from article in FoodIndustry magazine. Download the entire article on Lotus Bakeries here.
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