It was clear from the outset that Indigo's experience with this type of project would be invaluable. Indigo were never afraid to ‘tell it like it is’ and put as much effort into ensuring that our team was on target as well as their own.
Mark Kirk, IT Director & CIO,
Glen Dimplex
News
Agrokor extends the deployment of RealTime at -25°C
09 Sep 2008
Indigo Software Ltd, the supply chain software specialist, today announced that Agrokor, the largest private company in Croatia and one of the top three in the former Yugoslavia has gone live with Indigo’s RealTime for Infor EPR System21 software at their brand new, purpose built, deep frozen warehouse at the PIK Vrbovec Meat processing facility, 40km outside of Zagreb.
The implementation at the -25°C Warehouse extends the deployment of RealTime within Agrokor, utilising Indigo’s RealTime Interactive Warehousing, Inventory Transactions & Receiving modules with Infor’s ERP System21.
Indigo deployed RealTime for System21 as the integration hub to control and capture the weighing of meat products on receipt to the warehouse with Bizerba scales (http://www.bizerba.com/country/uk/en/start/terminals.html). RealTime then instructs the sophisticated concertina racking to open & close as Interactive Warehousing requires access to isles and bays (http://www.ssi-schaefer.co.uk/Pallet_Racking.16717.0.html). RFID implants in the floor at each bay enables Interactive Warehousing to dynamically confirm the correct location of trucks and through height monitoring can also confirm the location used without any intervention by the truck driver.
Darren Baxter, Indigo’s Operations Manager
“Indigo are delighted with the overwhelming success of what was a very complex technical solution. The adoption of the new technologies coupled with Indigo’s proven Warehouse and Data Capture systems, have provided a state of the art solution that Indigo and Agrokor are extremely proud of.”
Tomislav Marenic, Agrokor’s IT Project Manager
“Agrokor made the decision to build a brand new deep frozen facility adjacent to the meat processing plant as a replacement for third party warehousing. The adoption of concertina racking allows 60% more storage within the footprint over conventional racking, and the entire process is paperless, barcode assisted and RFID driven.
We chose Indigo as our WMS partner as they have a proven history of successful implementations and technical expertise particularly with complex integration projects.
Indigo delivered the solution on-time and within budget for what was a very high profile project. Their experience and knowledge was invaluable to Agrokor and enabled us to deploy this cutting edge solution.
We are all looking forward to our next project”
About Indigo
Indigos best-in-class software applications and services help organisations to improve their supply chain performance in increasingly competitive environments, amidst growing customer and business pressures. These include software applications that streamline and automate key business processes such as: warehouse management, supply chain execution and RFID compliance within Infor ERP System21.
Organisations across Europe, from mid-size supply chain organisations to global household brand names, are benefiting from Indigo’s software solutions. Customers include: Dairy Crest, Glen Dimplex, Greene King, NGK Spark Plugs, Jacuzzi, Rahbekfisk, Animal, Bunzl (Australia), Agrokor (Croatia) and ThyssenKrupp.
Further information is available at www.indigo.co.uk or through email at pr@indigo.co.uk.
About Agrokor
The Agrokor Group is the largest private company in Croatia and one of the leading regional companies with consolidated total revenues of more than HRK 15bn in 2006 and employing more than 31,000 people.
The Agrokor Group’s core businesses are the production and distribution of food and drinks on the one hand and retail on the other, comprising among others Croatia’s largest producers of mineral water – Jamnica d.d.; ice-cream – Ledo d.d.; oil, margarines and mayonnaise – Zvijezda d.d.; the largest Croatian meat industry – PIK Vrbovec d.d.; Belje, the largest agricultural and industrial capacity in Croatia and the leading retail chain – Konzum d.d.
Since it was established 30 years ago, due to a clear business vision, a consistently applied strategy and well-considered investments Agrokor has grown from a small family-owned company for the production and sale of flowers to become the leading food industry and retail group in the region today
The leading positions of Agrokor’s companies are reflected in their height market shares, with Ledo holding 77% of the Croatian ice cream market and Zvijezda 83% of the margarines market, while Jamnica dominates the mineral and spring water market in Croatia with 79% and 55%, respectively.
Having achieved and strengthened its indisputable leading positions on the market of Croatia in all of its major businesses, Agrokor has made a further step in an attempt to realize its long-term strategic objective – a key position throughout the region.
Apart from the Croatian companies, the Agrokor Group today also comprises companies from all over the region acquired during the last few years: Ledo Citluk, Sarajevski kiseljak, Velpro Sarajevo, Frikom, Dijamant, Idea, Ledo Hungary and Fonyodi.