Driving better CAPEX Management at leading Food Company

We always love hearing great things about our people, but this recent feedback really stood out for senior consultant Peter Lehtonen after a project at leading NZ food company Alliance Group Limited.

Alliance is a 100% farmer-owned New Zealand red meat co-operative, which is a producer of finest quality free-range grass-fed natural lamb, beef and venison. They are a global leader in procuring, processing and marketing quality meat products, which are enjoyed in move than 65 countries.

The company relies on Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage as its ERP, and Peter, who is one of our most experienced Senior Business Consultants recently enabled Project Order Management (POM) module at the business.

Mark Marcijasz, who works as an SME in the ERP-Finance team was glowing in his praise for Peter’s experience and customer focus: “Peter’s deep experience of the product, combined with his very personable nature and extreme customer-focussed attitude, ensured a stress-free and enjoyable implementation experience. Peter is a great communicator who always promptly responded to our many questions as we adapted the standard implementation configuration to meet our unique needs.”

He says that Peter’s work on POM bring big benefits to the business “We expect to realise significant benefits from the Project Order Management module across the business, from providing the ability to create flexible work breakdown structures that suit each individual project and project manager’s management style, to providing much improved top-level visibility and information to greatly enhance the accuracy of financial forecasts produced by our Finance team”

Benefits for Alliance

By using POM, Alliance will get the benefits of starting and monitoring their projects via a workflow that enables:

• An approved budget with commitment control
• Automatic creation of a project in POM with the budget. The project is ready to be used for purchase, stock and other transactions.
• Scheduling for projects.
• Periodised, monthly budgets and forecast to provide a better cash-flow
• Some beautiful Ad-Hoc reports to support the 40 or so project managers in their daily work.
• And at end of the project – capitalisation of the CAPEX into a fixed asset. A complete end to end process to help Alliance to keep track of and monitor their Capital Expenditures projects from a budget and scheduling perspective.

Peter never gets tired of doing a great job and is proud of the engagement and has equal praise for the team at Alliance. “All in all, we have delivered a coherent and transparent solution for Alliance to manage their CAPEX projects, their dollars and improve visibility and accuracy. I worked with some really talented people at Alliance in enabling this”