Unimills chooses Logica to improve its IT environment
Logica, a leading IT and business services company, has been selected by Unimills, a leading European supplier of vegetable oils for the food industry and member of the Malaysian multinational Sime Darby Berhad, to optimize its business processes and IT environment with an integrated SAP and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution. Logica will help Unimills to achieve the operational flexibility required to support its strategic focus on tailor-made products and joint product development. The five year contract has a total value of approximately 4.8 million euro.
Over the last five years Unimills made a successful transition from being a supplier of commodity vegetable fats to being a leading supplier of high value tailor-made oils and fat formulations for European A-brand and private label food companies. In its ambition to further improve its service to customers and provide them with innovative cost effective solutions for healthy oils and fats from nature, an agile IT and manufacturing environment was identified as the key factor for success.
To enable this, Logica will design and implement an integrated SAP and MES for Unimills. Logica is a pioneer in developing solutions that connect the enterprise organization to the manufacturing floor, resulting in the availability of real-time information to support decision making at every level.
Logica’s solution provides Unimills with the insight and agility to quickly adapt the manufacturing environment to new requirements and products. It supports optimized enterprise resource management and utilization, resulting in an improved time-to-market and lower costs. Also, the solution supports financial compliance and compliance with the European General Food Law in the area of tracking and tracing.
Dr. Alexander van der Klauw, General Manager of Unimills explains:“We have finally selected Logica after a tough tender process, because of their knowledge of the manufacturing market, and their unique combination of experience with both MES and SAP solutions. We are confident that Logica’s expertise and solutions will help us further strengthen our competitive position and allow us to further increase our service to customers and streamline our internal processes.” Logica’s involvement continues after the implementation of the solution, to include support and maintenance of the new IT environment.
Geo van der Wilk, Managing Director, Industry Distribution and Technology at Logica Netherlands, adds: “This partnership with Unimills demonstrates our ambition to become a long-term business and innovation partner for our clients. We have a desire to help our clients to move towards agile, collaborative manufacturing, ensuring profitability and competitive advantage.”
Logica has 25 years of experience in the manufacturing sector and has one of the largest dedicated manufacturing consultancy practices in Europe with approximately 1300 sector specialists. Logica is one of the few SAP Global Services Partners and a main strategic SAP Partner for SAP-MES integration.
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG).
About Unimills
Unimills B.V., a member of the Malaysian Sime Darby group, is a leading European supplier of tailor-made vegetable oils, producing more than 250 products in 13 application areas from the company base in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands. Unimills' strength is the diversity of processes for healthy oil-based ingredients, ranging from refining to double-fractionation, and from interesterification to hydrogenation of oils. Unimills sells products under key brand names including Delico® hardstocks for margarines and spreads, GoldBake® dough fats and Prifex® for premium flaked fats. Based on innovation and responsibility, the Unimills ambition is directed to being the preferred supplier of tailor-made healthy vegetable oils and fats and co-developer of new food products with the leading food companies.
www.unimills.com
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