Vanns Spices Optimizes Inventory With Syspro USA

Vanns Spices Ltd., a family-owned company based in Baltimore, Maryland, manufactures spices, spice blends, heirloom beans, grains and rice, and flavorings. The majority of the firm’s business is directed at developing and producing private label spice lines for markets, restaurants and web sites. Vanns acquires spices from around the globe and then processes and blends at the firm’s Baltimore manufacturing facility where strict quality controls are enforced.

The Challenge
Vanns was using outdated software and many new clients were requiring lot tracking functionality. Vanns also needed to improve their inventory tracking and integrate their manufacturing and customer service software.

The Solution
Vanns selected SYSPRO as it easily enabled the customization their business required. “In addition to various spices and spice blends, some customers want glass bottles with red caps, some want glass bottles with green caps and there are others that want plastic bottles with green caps. However, using the SYSPRO inventory future free report and trial-kitting functionalities, we can easily determine if we have the inventory on hand sufficient to full the orders and, if not, what we must order,” said Mick Whitlock, President, Vanns Spices.


Whitlock also mentions the other reasons why SYSPRO was Vanns’ choice. While the easy path would have been to upgrade the firm’s incumbent software, the realization was that it would still fail to fulfill all the company’s software requirements. “We wanted to tie our manufacturing software into customer service software, so the SYSPRO Customer Relationship Management software was as attractive as the other SYSPRO features, such as lot tracking. SYSPRO seemed a perfect fit all the way around from Accounting to Manufacturing to Traceability features.”

The Results
The company’s choice of SYSPRO has been validated many times over, says Whitlock. “The software’s reporting functionality, linked into Crystal reports, is phenomenal,” he says. “I can now show our board what products we sell the most of, which products are our most profitable and so on. The reports give us an in-depth picture of our company at any point in time.”

Additional benefits include:

• Accurate lot tracking and costing
• Custom-shop type manufacturing
• Stringent inventory controls
• Greater competitive edge
• Enhanced procurement capability

Read more about SYSPRO and the Vanns implementation at the SYSPRO Newsroom.

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