Baltic Packaging is a 101-year-old family-owned business that manufactures metal packaging for 20 countries. The company is known as a supplier of paint buckets and differentiates itself from the competitors with their lids. All of the buckets are identical, but are equipped with different types of lids, depending on the content. This makes filling the buckets more efficient for the customers.
A turnaround and a cultural journey
On ROB-EX User Day 2018, reflecting Baltic Packaging’s turnaround and a cultural journey, COO Jesper Larsen told the many participants about the turnaround that Baltic Packaging had experienced since 2015. There are new management, new work processes and delivery times, and the working environment has come into focus:
“It has been a major cultural journey, in which ROB-EX has been a small, but important part.” Over the last two years, all processes in the company have been digitalised, and everything is reported back into the ERP system. All production is scanned or manually typed in, and each workstation has a screen with the ERP system and ROB-EX.
It isn’t difficult to plan!
ROB-EX manages production, says Jesper Larsen, and exclaimed: “It isn’t difficult to plan!” The many planners chuckled, and Jesper Larsen continued: “Everyone can use ROB-EX. We don’t extract things from the system, but use ROB-EX’s different modules as they are, for everything, everywhere in the company. It is incredibly intuitive and easy to grasp; and now all of the production employees use the system.”
Overview and better delivery times – check!
The primary objective of implementing ROB-EX was to create an overview, and the secondary objective was to deliver on time. And it must be said that Baltic Packaging has lived up to this. Today, the company delivers 98.2% of their orders on time, and the rest the day after. The orders are created as needed in the ERP system and are automatically synchronised with ROB-EX. There is automatic follow-up, and the system takes lack of materials and delivery times into account.
You never finish a digitalisation project
“When you are in a digitalisation project, you never finish,” said Jesper Larsen, “but so far we have reached full transparency, better delivery, better structuring, better overview in procurement, better flow in production and more efficient use of manpower.”
In the future, Jesper Larsen would like to give customers access to ROB-EX, so they can follow their orders using a code on the order confirmation. And he would like to have his maintenance plan included in ROB-EX. Other objectives of the company in 2018 include further automation of press operation and personnel training. “Because the employees must be involved – this is very important to remember!” said Jesper Larsen in the conclusion of his presentation.
Baltic Packaging is a 101-year-old family-owned business that manufactures metal packaging for 20 countries. The company is known as a supplier of paint buckets and differentiates itself from the competitors with their lids. All of the buckets are identical, but are equipped with different types of lids, depending on the content. This makes filling the buckets more efficient for the customers.
A turnaround and a cultural journey
On ROB-EX User Day 2018, reflecting Baltic Packaging’s turnaround and a cultural journey, COO Jesper Larsen told the many participants about the turnaround that Baltic Packaging had experienced since 2015. There are new management, new work processes and delivery times, and the working environment has come into focus:
“It has been a major cultural journey, in which ROB-EX has been a small, but important part.” Over the last two years, all processes in the company have been digitalised, and everything is reported back into the ERP system. All production is scanned or manually typed in, and each workstation has a screen with the ERP system and ROB-EX.
It isn’t difficult to plan!
ROB-EX manages production, says Jesper Larsen, and exclaimed: “It isn’t difficult to plan!” The many planners chuckled, and Jesper Larsen continued: “Everyone can use ROB-EX. We don’t extract things from the system, but use ROB-EX’s different modules as they are, for everything, everywhere in the company. It is incredibly intuitive and easy to grasp; and now all of the production employees use the system.”
Overview and better delivery times – check!
The primary objective of implementing ROB-EX was to create an overview, and the secondary objective was to deliver on time. And it must be said that Baltic Packaging has lived up to this. Today, the company delivers 98.2% of their orders on time, and the rest the day after. The orders are created as needed in the ERP system and are automatically synchronised with ROB-EX. There is automatic follow-up, and the system takes lack of materials and delivery times into account.
You never finish a digitalisation project
“When you are in a digitalisation project, you never finish,” said Jesper Larsen, “but so far we have reached full transparency, better delivery, better structuring, better overview in procurement, better flow in production and more efficient use of manpower.”
In the future, Jesper Larsen would like to give customers access to ROB-EX, so they can follow their orders using a code on the order confirmation. And he would like to have his maintenance plan included in ROB-EX. Other objectives of the company in 2018 include further automation of press operation and personnel training. “Because the employees must be involved – this is very important to remember!” said Jesper Larsen in the conclusion of his presentation.