McBride has announced a significant investment in a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as part of its “ongoing transformation journey”.
The move, which will see it partner with SAP and NTT DATA Business Solutions, is being described as the company’s “largest critical project in terms of cost investment and scale”. McBride said this will help it “react quicker to its retail and contract manufacturing customer demands, produce at higher volumes and improve internal efficiencies”.
The five-year project, which is designed to add consistency to thinking and processes, will see the SAP S/4HANA system be harmonised across the entire McBride estate, resulting in all departments working with one data source. The introduction of standard and cohesive business processes will also enable McBride’s 12 European manufacturing sites to all work in the same way.
Other benefits for customers include improved order processing, supply chain visibility, quality control and compliance and reliable product availability. Easy integration, including the sharing of essential and beneficial data to customers, will also enable more accurate production planning.
Paul Boardman, Group IT Director at McBride, said: “This is a once in a generation opportunity to transform McBride’s system landscape and improve its capability for staff and customers. We currently have seven streams of transformation of which ERP is one. The ERP system is critical to our transformation journey at McBride, as it underpins all our programmes and goals. Every transaction, every department, and every factory at McBride goes through ERP, so it really drives the heart of the organisation.”
Boardman added: “There is excitement and appetite for the new system across McBride; employees will benefit from working with the latest technology and be able to deliver a better service to their customers. This is one of the many reasons why McBride is committed to this significant investment in technology and people.”
