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•IntegrationSolutions: New ERP System Enables International Expansion
Imagine your business is experiencing double-digit growth year after year, and you're facing an international expansion. Now, imagine doing that with an ERP system that does not have the capability to do capacity planning or measure your production costs against a standard for real-time costing. This is the situation Jelly Belly faced when it began looking for a new ERP solution.
The Jelly Belly brand has been around for 32 years. The company produces candy under the Jelly Belly, Sport Beans, JBz, Harry Potter Bertie Bott's Beans, and Sunkist names. The Jelly Belly brand alone has 50 official flavors and 20 ‘unofficial' flavors, with its number one selling item being a 49 flavor mix.
Jelly Belly has a very complex supply chain it manages. The company manufactures its products in two locations, Fairfield, CA and North Chicago, IL, and is opening a third facility in Rayong, Thailand, in the second quarter of 2008. Jelly Belly has two distribution centers in Fairfield, CA, and Pleasant Prairie, WI. Finally, the company sources its raw materials globally and has a co-pack operation in China.
Jelly Belly's legacy ERP application was an outdated, unsupported Cimpro/MAI Basic system. The system consisted of multiple unsynchronized databases and did not have any capacity planning capabilities or real-time costing functionality. "We have a 1-million-square-foot warehouse that was running a system separate from our legacy ERP system," explains Ryan Schader, VP of business development. "Even with multiday updates, the two systems were often out of sync." As for real-time costing, the company was using Excel spreadsheets to measure its plants against standards.
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