MooBell Dairy is growing medium sized industry, dealing in Milk, Cream & Butter, with production & manufacturing sites in Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia. The company’s sales are highly focused on small business in retail like locally owned grocers, milk bars, and work place canteens. Organization has been facing critical issues regarding business sustainability due to drought, increasing prices of inputs, huge competition, and product prices. Many institutional functions have been manually dealt like supply chain, production record, and sales which is a main cause of big losses over the last few years. MooBell has really struggled to maintain a continuous sales growth, product quality, customer retention, and infrastructure improvement.
The chronicle has analyzed the loopholes of the company and suggested to implement GS 1 systems in MooBell. It will help the organization to identify the problems in various segments, capturing best contemporary business practices, and sharing desired information to enhance the overall productivity across the board.
GS 1 system will be beneficial for the enterprise in the following ways:
Improved Traceability of products across supply chain by allocating barcodes
Increase business efficiency by reduced product recalls and manual errors
Inventory Management by data collection/sharing in supply chain
Total Quality Management by tracking of products
Less labor cost will lead to more saving
Time Saving by automation of data entry
Enhanced customer base with effective monitoring and focusing on new avenues
Business sustainability and profitability due to less damages and recalls
The whole system establishment may take a few months of time and will require training and empowering of staff which will ultimately be complementing the company’s objective to improve the supply chain system. Monitoring and Evaluation of business activities at regular intervals will be made easier by using GS 1 system.