1. Anglo Beef Processors Ltd
Case Study Operator
November 2006

2. Who are ABP? R.O.I. U.K. Fresh Beef & Lamb Processor & Retail Packing
Dedicated Frozen Burger Production
Fresh Beef & Lamb
Processor & Retail Packing
Frozen Meat / Products & Burgers
Largest Own Label Burger Producer
U.K.
Freshlink Foods
Microwaveable Hand Held Sandwiches & Snacks

3. Irish Food Processors Ltd
Europe’s Largest Beef Processor
Fresh & Frozen Red Meat Processor, Manufacturer & Retail Case Ready Packer
Supplying Retailers, Foodservice & Manufacturers
Continual Investment Programme
Largest EU Import Quota (GATT licence)

4. Irish Food Processors Ltd
Group turnover in excess €1bn
Employing over 3500 colleagues at more than 30 plants throughout the British Isles
14,000 cattle per week
40,000 sheep per week
Largest EU GATT quota

5. IFP Markets & Customers
Scandinavia
United Kingdom
Ireland
Russia
Germany
Canada
Japan
China
Venezuela
Mexico
New
Zealand
Africa
Indonesia
Australia
Current Trade
Previous Trade
Current Sources
Previous Sources

6. ABP – UK’s Leading Meat Processor
Turnover in excess of £550m
Employing over 2,200 colleagues at 15 plants
Processing in excess 350,000 cattle per year
Average production of 2500 tonnes of primal meat and 2000 tonnes of retail ready meat per week
Setting industry standards in every aspect of food processing
Supplying the finest fresh & frozen meat to the UK’s leading retailers, manufacturers and caterers

7. IFP – Plant Locations Slaughtering at: Processing at: Perth Newry
Lurgan
Perth
York
Ellesmere
Shrewsbury
Blackburn
Processing at:
Perth
Ellesmere
Doncaster
Shrewsbury
Jersey
Lowestoft
York
Newry
Lurgan
Ulster
Liverpool
Blackburn
Glasgow
Ballybay

8. System Background ABP grown by acquisition and organic growth
No commonality of systems
No consistency of approach
Different business languages
Company strategy of local responsibility
Some industry specific requirements
Traceability
Yield analysis
‘catch weight’
Realisation of benefits of shared services
Led to the Movex ‘programme’
Standardisation at an ERP level
Standardisation of systems across group
common processes wherever possible

9. Original Processing Systems
Movex
CSV flat files
Customer Orders
Despatches
Abattoirs
Boning Halls
Further Processing
System Integration
abattoir
payment system
HCS ‘Black Box’
Scanvaegt - 3 flavours
Hellenic
HCS
System Integration
Scanvaegt – 2 flavours
Hellenic
HCS

10. System Vision Movex Common Access Reporting Supply Chain Planning
Operator Interface
Site Planning (Boning and CPM)
Stock
Purchase
Orders
Integrated
Financials
Movex
Manufacturing
Orders
Customer
Orders
KPI Dashboard
Maintenance Orders
Abattoirs
Boning Halls
Further Processing
Farmers
Customers

11. Who Are Operator Acquired by Intentia as part of APP purchase (~2000)
Became independent as Operator Systems in 2004
Based in Copenhagen in the Lawson Offices
15 employees
Only supply, develop, implement and support Operator
Have implementation Partners mainly Scandinavia

12. Operator – Example references

13. Machine Control System
Operator – Overview
ERP
MES solution
Orders (MO, CO, WO, PO,…)
Work Instructions
Job reporting
Label Printing
Integration with
ERP
SCADA
Quality Systems
Maintenance
Movex APP
Online document viewer
Online machine / job monitoring
T&A
Alarms
Interface solution
Uses tools from MES solution
ERP integration to
SAP
Movex
Navision,
…..
Interfaces to
text files
Databases (OLEDB,ODBC)
RPC
XML
Uses internal files (jobr_generic)
OPERATOR
SCADA
Machine Control System
Other systems

14. Operator - Connections
Predefined types - import / export
ERP data and orders - Items, COs, MOs, Workcenters …
ERP transactions calls (API) – MHS850, MMS310, CRS620 ……
Generic – MS SQL, Oracle, ODBC, OLE, flat file
Others (batch scripts)
Specific Connection details
Where is it
Userid, Passwords, tcp/ip ports ….
Instances of Connections (Unique parameters)
Mapping link
Job service details
Movex company or warehouse
Job parameters
Debug detail information

15. Connection Example Movex Operator Site export file (CSV)
Connection Type : ERP
Connection : MVX_ABP
Movex user id and password
Instances : EXPORT_JOBR
use job for all flat file importing
Movex company
Mapping table to use
Operator
Connection Type : flat file
Connection : IMPORT_SHREWSBURY
d:\Intentia\OPEIS\TEST\DATA\A22\IMPORT
Instances : IMPORT_SHREWSBURY
use job for all flat file importing
create ‘end of load’ & ‘end of order’ transaction flag
Site export file
(CSV)

16. Operator - Mapping As data is moved about where does it go to?
Supports multiple files (header to lines)
Functions
Predefined
Specific (e.g. Secondary Unit of Measure)

17. Operator - Translations
Supported different local to common central ‘language’
Two types
Translations (e.g. item numbers)
Cross references (e.g. Supplier codes)
Can be made mandatory
Plant specific or global
Can be directional
Example:
Global translation of
Site specific of CBP1234
Movex
ASBFB65BR2C
Shrewsbury
CBP1234
Perth
406123
Newry
406123

18. Operator – Movex API By Batch (controlled in the job) Sequencing
Error control
Mapping to API call

19. Operator – API Mapping

20. Operator - Jobs Variable delay time for each job
Colour coded status reporting and detail by job
Jobs run in a Service
ing of error conditions

21. Operator Jobs

22. Current Position 6 sites with basic CO and CO despatch CSV interface
3 sites integrated COs, POs and suppliers
1 site with full stock integration
All farmers entered into SI and updated in Movex
All farmers paid via Operator into Movex
Crates system
Item creation system
Per week approx
65,000 API calls
4,500 COs (~10 lines per CO)
300 POs (~4 lines per PO)

23. Flexibility - stock load
Use CSV report of ‘stock’
Created import job
Created export job calling MMS310
Created Crystal CSV report of ‘non updated’ locations
Run them through same job
Used as a ‘one off’ for a project start-up
Will be used for all non-integrated sites
No (or very little) cost
Less than a days time used

24. Flexibility - Suppliers
Have 18,000 farmers in System Integration payment system
Modified SI system to have a flag in MS SQL database
Used as trigger for Import job
set to ‘0’ by SI
‘0’s picked up by Operator then set to 1
Created export job to call CRS620, CRS624 and CRS622
Small cost at SI ( < £500)
Less than 1 day

25. Where are we going Multiple servers
Spread load
Failover
Business Continuity
Continue rollout of full stock integration
New version
MS SQL 2005 (database performance)
Faster
Better user interface

26. Questions ?