Up until a year ago , Marcel Vreugdenhil , as a logistics contriver at hydrangea grower Sjaak van Schie , sometimes had work week of 60 to 70 hour . " I used to be a month behind with the packaging administration , " he say , " but in this seasonal industry , you ca n’t just hire and direct someone because they would then be purposeless in the quiet clip . " He found the solution in the packaging registration computer software from PackControl .
70 hectare of Hydrangeas in the Netherlands and PortugalSjaak van Schie has branches in the Netherlands and Portugal , and the family job contains a total of about 70 hectares of hydrangea production , which it supplies in various growth stage , from cuttings to the last product . Increasingly , you will also find sole Hydrangea varieties . The packaging administration principally revolves around CCs ( Danish container ) and the consort plates .
Packaging administration in Excel : prostrate to errorsThere are around 130 lasting employees crop for the fellowship . One of them is Marcel Vreugdenhil , who , as a Logistics Planner , is responsible for the administrative processing of all promotional material transactions . " Until a year ago , we primarily did the packaging administration in Excel . The problem is that it ’s prostrate to errors . I am very punctilious , and I expend a lot of time on it . But even then , I was always dependant on the expression in an Excel worksheet . I did n’t always have control over it . For good example , if a colleague also worked in it , it was difficult to find where error occurred . "
heighten costsThe costs consort with the packaging can add up importantly in a company of this size . " And it ’s not just about rental costs , but especially about loss costs , which are quickly much high because it is so difficult to keep the organisation right without automation . "
20 hours a week is too muchThe packaging administration became problematic , Marcel excuse : " calculate on the time of class , I spent a caboodle of prison term on it . Too much . In the high season , from January to June , on ordinary , about 20 hours a week . And if you work in Excel , you do n’t have a scheme that helps you when you run out of time . "
" I used to be a month behind with the packaging organisation because there is more to do . Then you end up with work week of 60 to 70 hours , and that ’s just not ripe . That was no longer possible . Conclusion : I spend most of my time on the packaging presidential term , and that ’s where we could make the biggest clock time - preservation . "
Switching to PackControlThe switch to PackControl ’s promotional material registration system of rules was easy . " It ’s a arrangement that takes over the work and does it in a way that work for us . It ’s a proficient solution . In Portugal , it ’s die well , too , because it ’s all self - explanatory . data point is study in at night and processed automatically . What used to be done manually in Excel , we now scarcely have to look at . "
metre delivery of 75%“Working with PackControl really saves a flock of clock time . Where I used to spend about 20 hours a week on packaging administration , now I ’m done in an hour a day , " Marcel says . A time saving of 75 % . What is the reason for this ? Mainly the mechanisation . " upload filing cabinet foreclose manual work and is very accurate . We import transactions from multiple ERP systems and those from Royal FloraHolland . We process the transactions using automatic consequence . "
" The Responsibility Rules are also very authoritative to us . They baffle who is responsible for for the packaging . you’re able to set under which train a certain dealing is linked to a newsboy or to a client . You set this once , and you could specialise the conditions yourself . " Rules and agreements are , therefore , always correctly applied , economise time and money .
" The system with which we publish pitch notes are also linked to PackControl , " says Marcel , " and for bookings we make , we can upload papers in PackControl . It just works very nicely . "
at last some free timeDespite the time saving , Marcel is anything but bored . postulate what he does with the metre he ' economise , ' he say with a jest : " I still had a peck of time of day left because in recent years I was go far too much . There was still a peck to be done at home , so I at long last managed to take some sentence off . Now that the meddlesome season is coming again , there is still more than enough to do in the coming time . "
reservoir : Pack Control
