AMCO Proteins Improves Business Performance With Deacom

AMCO Proteins, a specialty proteins manufacturer, was using technology to run their business much like other manufacturing companies in the United States: by customizing various types of software to deliver specific capabilities within their ERP system. While the company was able to ‘get by', gaps in their process were becoming more prominent as the complexity of the business developed.

“Between the management of different modules for ERP, CRM, and maintenance, and manually inputting data, our processes were beginning to cause disruption to our business." said Adam Cabot, CEO of AMCO Proteins.

AMCO realized that in order to grow both strategically and organically, they needed to find an ERP solution that would eliminate a reliance on multiple systems and provide the flexibility to support future business acquisitions. Upon evaluation, the team unanimously agreed that Deacom’s all-encompassing ERP system would answer all of their critical business needs.

“We knew the DEACOM system would be faster, more efficient, and the updates weren’t going to negatively impact business continuity,” said Cabot.

Deacom and AMCO identified opportunities to strengthen operations through process control. The most significant enhancement was to deliver heightened flexibility within production scheduling. AMCO regularly runs production jobs lasting multiple days. Therefore, the teams realized significant value in creating a flexible production scheduler. Within this tool, AMCO can create full production jobs and move them around a “test calendar” to determine the most efficient process and without ever impacting the live schedule. Once the user is secure in their decision, the production job can be moved to the main schedule to be applied immediately.

Since being live on DEACOM, AMCO has already seen significant value with improved visibility into business performance. Previously, the company relied on spreadsheets and handwritten notes of production runs, downtime, uptime, and yields. This information was then manually entered into spreadsheets to create graphs and PowerPoint presentations – a time-consuming and unsustainable method.

Said Cabot, “Now we have real-time data right at our fingertips. We can instantly see what is being produced in shifts A, B, and C, and drill down into those details to identify inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement. The real-time information allows us to make faster and better decisions."

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Silver Spring Foods Improves Inventory With Deacom ERP

Silver Spring Foods not only has its own products and brands, but is it also a large co-packer for some of the biggest names on grocery shelves today. A business like theirs has complexities surrounding inventory, documentation, and unique requirements, and Silver Spring Foods manages it with the help of DEACOM. Silver Spring CIO, Noah Wallace III, outlined the biggest impacts that DEACOM ERP has made on their business.


•Reducing Inventory Variance by up to 99%
For years, Silver Spring Foods accepted the fact that their inventory was off $250,000-$300,000. Since implementing DEACOM, they have significantly reduced their inventory variance “Every year, we have gotten better and better,” said Wallace. “We are currently down to about $1,700 in variance even though we now have more inventory.”


•Automating Document Generation
Prior to DEACOM, Silver Spring Foods needed to pull information from multiple systems to create a single document, not to mention manually putting it all together. Today, they have a strong system in place that keeps all critical information in one location and automatically generates documents like Certificate of Analysis and Bill of Ladings. “It’s a much simpler task than it used to be and we know that it is done right. This really helped our people on the warehouse side,” said Wallace.


•Handling Complex Requirements
Making 700-800 different products for various companies, including their own, creates a lot of complexity in their business processes as each brand has their own requirements and expectations. “Before Deacom, a lot of processes were handled outside of the ERP – through excel or MS Access,” said Wallace. “But now with DEACOM, we have the ability to handle those requirements within the system.”


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