Irish Pride produces in excess of 1 million loaves of bread per week, and has become one of the largest bakery companies in Ireland. It is an associate company of IAWS Group plc, a major food and agri-business group, who own several other food companies including Cuisine de France, Shamrock Foods.

The Problem

As a large food process manufacture, Irish Pride receives and processes over 3000 documents per week, particularly in their accounts department for procurement and sales. To best managing the business processes, as John Staunton, Credit Controller in Ballinrobe pointed out, “Our key objective was to sort out a proper file retrieval system and to archive material onto electronic equipments”.

The other major problem that Irish pride facing is branch offices can not access to the documents they need timely and accurately, large volume documents occupy valuable office space and consume sustainable manual input. Irish pride realises that they must seeking for innovated document management system to achieve the operate efficiency, cost effectiveness.

Our Solutions

Irish Pride find Adest special designed Manufacturing Solution best matched its business requirements with most competitive price, and the customised solution can be easily integrated with their existed software for Accounts Receivable Department.

Company Deliver Dockets, Invoices, Credit Notes, Statements etc. in both paper and electronic version are managed by Adest Accounts Receivable Solution. Adest captured incoming documents automatically through Computer Output On-Line (COOL), and imported into Accounts Receivable, after which the data is automatically indexed, stored, all documents are ready to use with limited Human intervention. Built in automated validation procedures ensure high level documents processing accuracy.

Business Benefits

• Centralised accounts process is streamlined · Immediate labour saving- The department has saved over €15,000 labour costs directly
• Stationary and administration cost reduction
• Enhanced the client services- Irish Pride provides better services to large supermarkets, assembly groups and small convenient shops with lower cost
• Facilities Utilisation – released large floor and shelf space

“Adest has definitely brought a huge benefit in terms of reducing debtor days because we can confidently send people copies immediately. This means not having an invoice is no longer an excuse for late payment.”                     Gary Matthews, Group Finance Director at IAWS