Completely new ICT environment for Bouter Cheese

Bouter Cheese, a leading player in the European cheese market, focuses on processing Dutch and foreign cheese for one of the biggest Dutch retailers, among others. They apply the latest techniques and the highest quality requirements when ripening, slicing, packaging and distributing cheese. In the food industry, practically all processes are fully automated, which makes ICT essential for successful management. To realise further growth, it was time for a completely new ICT environment.

The new infrastructure is optimally available, can be flexibly adapted to new market situations and, moreover, is easy to manage. Bouter Cheese selected Qurius for the replacement of its ICT environment because of the new way of work, the extensive experience and track record with Microsoft solutions and the capacity to supply a complete ERP solution, inclusive of infrastructure.

BUSINESS CRITICAL
Bouter Cheese’s primary business processes are directly dependent on the ICT environment, as the new ERP environment maintains real-time communication with the production environment.  The inability to (timely) stock up the outlets of the customers immediately affects the continuity of this relationship. For Bouter Cheese, the entire ICT environment is therefore very business critical. This was why this company set high standards for availability, continuity and flexibility of the ICT environment.

Other vital reasons to switch to a new ICT system were the wish to optimise the business processes by way of better information supply and the wish to quicker meet the customers’ needs. It was decided to largely replace the ICT environment by the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP software combined with Q-Food. This solution provides Bouter Cheese enterprise-wide support for all business processes, including ripening, production, packaging and logistics as well as stock management, sales and finance.

For further information: www.boutercheese.eu