Perfetti Van Melle

Business Analytics made easy for SAP
INDUSTRY:
PROCESS:
Food & Beverage
Supply Chain
“A quick overview of production orders, open orders and stock level”
Perfetti Van Melle is a producer and distributor of confectionery and chewing gum, operating in over 130 countries. The
company resulted from the 2001 merger of Perfetti and Van Melle. With the take-over of the Spanish company Chupa Chups
in July 2006, Perfetti Van Melle consolidated its position as the world’s third largest confectionery company. It also made
the company the largest player in the Asian market.
Since 1993 Perfetti Van Melle is using SAP. The decision to use SAP
Management issues
for logistical and financial administration was a convincing one.
With Every Angle Perfetti Van Melle Benelux the management found
Since that decision, the ERP has been rolled out in many countries.
answers to a number of pressing issues.
As a result, the company currently works with ten productive
Those management issues were the following:
SAP systems, each for a specificregion or operating company. The
• Which orders are open? Will they be delivered on time? If not, why
company sought answers to some important issues, such as “which
deliveries are outstanding, will they be delivered on time and if not,
why not?” With Every Angle the management is now able to produce
clear answers to those questions and more. Perfetti Van Melle cannot
imagine working without Every Angle anymore.
Implementation of Every Angle
not?
• What is the status of our stock? Have we got enough or rather too
much? If we have got too much, how can we stop it getting worse?
• Is it possible to cancel purchase orders or manufacturing orders?
Results
By using Every Angle, Perfetti Van Melle Benelux managed to achieve
Every Angle is implemented with the aim to align the operational
the following results:
business processes and to enable SAP users to retrieve as much
• Cleaner master data
information as possible from the SAP system. Perfetti Van Melle has
• Quicker action on the basis of faster and more transparent reports
been using Every Angle since 2003 and is very satisfied. It is primarily
• Quicker flagging-up of potential unsalables (best-before-date and
the SAP key users who benefit the most from the operational
packaging materials without dependent need)
performance management solution provided by Every Angle. At the
• Improved reporting on sales orders status
end of 2007, the confectionery manufacturer decided to convert the
• Improved insight into purchasing packages and supplier spread
existing Benelux contract to a company-wide global contract. This
• SAP users have gained more understanding of their role in the
enables the worldwide use of Every Angle software. The first site
outside the Netherlands that employed this software was Perfetti Van
Melle USA.
business process
• Thanks to Every Angle, users have a better understanding of the
entire business process.
Examples
• Reporting on service levels
• Identifying and cleaning corruption and inconsistencies in master and
transaction data
• Monitoring supplier lists and information records for completeness and
accuracy
• Uncovering backlogs and imminent backlogs for each customer based on
“For us, Every Angle is a powerful tool that
provides us with a better insight into our
processes and how those processes interrelate. Our users couldn’t imagine working
without Every Angle anymore and from an IT
perspective I can only say that Every Angle
requires hardly any maintenance.”
open order lists
• Analyzing stocks of both the finished product and packaging materials with
regard to unsalables, slow-movers, best-before-date lists, number of weeks
in stock and blocked stocks
• Inventory of production differences between planned and produced.
Jan-Willem van der Meere
Regional IT Manager of NW. Europe and N. America
“Every Angle is a nice tool to make sure
that people don’t only hear weekly
what their performance was, but also
have the tool to monitor their
performance on a daily basis.”
Erik Brouwer
Director of Supply Chain Management in NW. Europe
www.everyangle.com