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Novensys launches IQ solution for food industry

This week, Novensys, one of the most important players on the market of solutions for information management launched FoodVision, at the same time with the commencement of the first implementation in this industry.

FoodVision is an intelligent solution, capable to offer traceability and production management functionalities. These functionalities can be integrated with functional areas characteristic for end to end solutions for information management: financial, supply chain management, business intelligence, staff and wages, logistics, warehouse and sales force automation. The FoodVision solution addresses processing companies in the food industry, butcheries, meat and food distributing companies and animal farms.

„Over the years, Romania has been the scene of media scandals regarding food contamination. FoodVision is a useful tool for any company that may have to go through the unpleasant situation of withdrawing a product from the market. Developing such an internal tracking system leads to a higher efficiency in identification and withdrawing processes, communication with the market and costs of these processes.

The proportion implementation cost – image cost is clearly in favor of the implementation cost for this kind of system. Furthermore, the time of implementation of this solution varies between 3 and 6 month, while the return on investment takes place in less than 9 month.

With the aid of FoodVision, the speed of identifying a product’s history or that of the row materials it has been made of; anywhere in the foodstuff chain from reception, transportation, storage, processing, distribution and sales is comparable to the speed of a single click. This makes FoodVision a very important solution when it comes to not making a compromise between the costs of withdrawing a product from the market and customers’ safety, but to making this processes a more efficient one.

In addition, FoodVision includes functionalities which are able to make the manufacturing process in this industry more efficient. The solution computes the recommended quantities and checks the forecasted results. It can identify the required ingredients and the finished products that can be obtained from these raw materials, it can calculate the nutritional value, while recipe management, variable production, integration of the product life cycle for perishable food can be simple functionalities which lead to a higher efficiency of the consumption of raw material and of the manufacturing process.

Novensys is implementing such a system that integrates all Microsoft Dynamics NAV and FoodVision facilities at one of the most important supermarket chains in Romania. We are certain that this first implementation is already a success even at this development stage,” states Andrei Caunii, Managing Partner, Novensys.

FoodVision is an answer to the documentation needs of the companies in the food industry, so they can process a large amount of information which would cover the entire system, depending on the distance between the producer and the distributor and which would offer precision and real time information. The solution can be successfully integrated with the latest equipment such as: mobile computers, equipment with pick by voice functionalities, bar code scanners, RFID printers, weighing equipment, thermometers, fat weighing equipment for meat etc

FoodVision is based on the Microsoft Dynamics NAV platform and is specially designed to support active regulations of the food industry on one hand and on the other hand, to meet the specific needs of producers and distributors in the industry: to increase productivity, to reduce manufacturing costs, to raise the response speed to market requirements. FoodVision conforms to the HACCP standards, the 178/2002 directive of the European Union, the international Food Standard regulations and foodstuff traceability. The amount of information which needs to be processed in this industry is increased by the obligation to report the performances of the (animal) waste management, energetic efficiency, emission of carbon particles, recycled packages etc.. The „triple bottom line” reports imposed more and more in this industry in the last years. The trend in this industry is to shorten as much as possible access time to information and to diminish manufacturing costs. Under these circumstances, the existence of an integrted system for information management in the company is not only a condition to fit in the legal standards but also a condition for success.

Novensys strongly believes in the things well done and in those solutions that bring certainty and competitive advantage. Introducing FoodVision in the Novensys portfolio came to support the company’s promise of delivering intelligent systems for information management to help Romanian companies make the most intelligent decisions in the shortest time.

Glossary

Traceability - The capacity to follow the track of a row material or a product of animal origin along the production, processing and distribution stages – The Foodstuff Law in the EU reporting System

„Triple Bottom Line” – The „triple bottom line” accountancy means extending the usual reporting in order to take into consideration not only financial performances, but also environmental and social ones.

RFID (Radio-frequency identification) – is an automate identification method based on identifying each object with an attached label, that send out a unique code. This code can be read with an RFID reader, which must be placed near the label. The advantage of this technology is that it doesn’t require direct visibility with the label in order to read it.

Pick by voice – runs based on any intelligent mobile computer that allows the usage of VOIP (voice over IP) and that is integrated in warehouse management system. Enables the management of the entire warehouse through voice commands.

About Novensys

Novensys started its activity as integrator in 1998 and came to be the most important player on the market of solutions for information management with a turnover of 9,3 million dollars. For 2007, Novensys estimates a growth in turnover of 30% compared to 2006.

Novensys is the best partner of the companies it works with. Novensys is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Motorola Premier Business Partner for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa)  for Enterprise Mobility Solutions and business partner for .

Some of the most important implementations were made at: Flanco, Spar, Acces Press, Cupon Pro, Termoport, Antalis, Brecco and Ferroli. With the position of Zebra, Psion, Datalogic, LS Retail, Printronix, Carl Valentin, Magner, NCR, ThinPrint, Tally Genicom, Mantis.

Some of the most important implementations: Flanco, Spar, Acces Press, Cupon Pro, Termoport, Antalis, Brecco, Ferroli, Metro, Dedeman, Flanco, Spar, Cargus, Macromex, Saint-Gobain, Antalis, Ferroli, Termoport, Philip Morris, Imprimeria Nationala, Orange.

The Novensys headquarters is located in Bucharest and to meet its customers’ needs, the company established branch offices in Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Brasov.

For further information about Novensys please access the webpage: http://www.novensys.com, send an e-mail to cornelia.gusa@novensys.com or place a call at 0741 105 041. Contact person: Cornelia Gusa, Marketing Manager, Novensys.