CDC Software's CDC Factory Enterprise Solution to Be Implemented at Leading Grocery Brand's Entire Plant Network to Help Combat
July 21 2008 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
CDC Software, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ:
CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software
applications and business services, announced today that Red Gold,
a leading premium quality tomato products manufacturer since 1942,
is expected to implement the CDC Factory global manufacturing
operations management (MOM) solution to help expand its total
business by increasing capacity and reducing costs throughout its
entire plant network. In the current economic climate, with the
rapidly rising costs for materials, packaging and fuel, Red Gold
felt it was critical to identify and successfully implement new
ways of driving continuous improvement and facilitate cost
reductions. This led Red Gold to select CDC Factory which is
expected to help it to engage its workforce to increase line
efficiencies, improve labor utilization, reduce changeover times,
address variability and minor stops, and standardize metrics and
data so each of its three plants in Indiana can have the same
consistent data to measure and manage performance. CDC Factory
helps achieve these results by providing real-time workforce
empowerment that enables employees to make real-time decisions to
drive improvement from the shop floor. The solution provides
real-time visibility into detailed operating metrics including
production rates, yields, utilization, and per-unit cost. Red Gold
had previously attempted to implement a Performance Management
system on an initial pilot line, but it didn�t meet their
expectations. As a result, Red Gold made a thorough and diligent
assessment of the market, assessing five vendors over a period of
six months. �After an exhaustive assessment, we believe we have
found the right partner in CDC Factory,� said Mike Crooks, senior
director, manufacturing, Red Gold. �CDC Factory has a packaged
product that allows their implementation team to focus on managing
the change in an organization and helps us to incorporate daily
best operating practices. CDC Factory was the only vendor we
assessed who focused on how we use the information rather than just
how we collect and report it. We believe this will help us achieve
the improvements we are targeting.� �Food commodity prices have
risen to record levels and are wreaking havoc on profit margins for
virtually every food manufacturer,� said Mark Sutcliffe, general
manager of CDC Factory. �CDC Factory is rapidly being adopted by
leading food manufacturers like Red Gold because it helps them
remain competitive during these market challenges.� About Red Gold
Red Gold, America�s largest privately held tomato manufacturer
headquartered in Orestes, Indiana operates three state-of-the-art
processing facilities in Elwood, Orestes, and Geneva, Indiana. Red
Gold produces premium quality canned tomatoes and tomato-based
products for the retail, foodservice, private label, and club
channels of distribution. The Red Gold family of brands includes
Red Gold, Redpack, Tuttoroso, and Sacramento. Exceptional quality,
service, and operational excellence are the shared values that
contributed to the employee-created mission statement: �To produce
the freshest, best tasting tomato products in the world.� For more
information visit www.redgold.com. About CDC Factory CDC Factory is
the first packaged manufacturing operations management system that
transforms manufacturing performance by empowering people to make
real-time actionable decisions. By standardizing the best practices
of lean manufacturing, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and
continuous improvement, CDC Factory provides a real-time framework
that integrates scheduling, operations, quality and maintenance.
Specifically designed for food and beverage, pharmaceutical
packaging and consumer packaged goods manufacturers, CDC Factory
enables real-time decision making to support a demand-driven
strategy at all levels in the organization, from factory floor
operators to executive management. Leading manufacturers are using
CDC Factory to reduce operating costs and waste, unlock hidden
capacity, improve customer service and employee satisfaction, while
minimizing risk by assuring regulatory compliance. For more
information, visit: www.cdcfactory.com. About CDC Software CDC
Software, The Customer-Driven Company�, is a provider of enterprise
software applications designed to help organizations deliver a
superior customer experience while increasing efficiencies and
profitability. CDC Software's product suite includes: CDC Factory
(manufacturing operations management), Ross ERP (enterprise
resource planning) and SCM (supply chain management), CDC Supply
Chain (supply chain management, warehouse management and order
management), Pivotal CRM and Saratoga CRM (customer relationship
management), Respond (customer complaint and feedback management),
c360 CRM add-on products, industry solutions and development tools
for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform, Platinum HRM (human
resources) and business analytics solutions. These
industry-specific solutions are used by more than 6,000 customers
worldwide within the manufacturing, financial services, health
care, home building, real estate, wholesale and retail distribution
industries. The company completes its offerings with a full
continuum of services that span the life cycle of technology and
software applications, including implementation, project
consulting, outsourced business services, application management
and offshore development. CDC Software is the enterprise software
unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and is ranked number 12 on
the MBT 2007 Global 100 List of Enterprise and Supply Chain
Management Application vendors. For more information, please visit
www.cdcsoftware.com. About CDC Corporation The CDC family of
companies includes CDC Software focused on enterprise software
applications and services, CDC Games focused on online games, and
China.com focused on portals for the greater China markets. For
more information about CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA), please
visit www.cdccorporation.net. Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United
States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and
includes statements relating to our beliefs regarding our
solutions� ability to help our customers expand business, increase
capacity, reduce costs, engage worksforces, increase line
efficiencies, improve labor utilization, reduce changeover times,
address variability and minor stops, standardize metrics and data,
our beliefs regarding CDC Factory�s ability to provide real-time
workforce empowerment and real-time visibility into operating
metrics, beliefs regarding the suitability of CDC Factory for any
particular business or customer, our ability to manage change
within an organization and incorporate best practices, our beliefs
regarding the adoption of CDC Factory by food manufacturers and the
reasons therefore, our ability to continue to grow in the future
and focus on the global food manufacturing industry, the ability of
CDC Factory to address the needs of process manufacturers such as
the ability improve efficiencies, improve production, yields,
feedback, visibility and accountability into plant floor, metrics,
operations and customer order fill rates, the ability of our
products to provide key functionality, allow better decision
making, drive cost savings and provide competitive advantages,
reduce downtime due to inefficiency, improve changeover time,
portion control and accountability, increase output, throughput and
accuracy of root-cause analyses, realize additional cost savings,
operating margins and competitive advantages, the ease and timing
of deploying our solutions, and the ability to realize upfront
value using our products and other statements we may make. These
statements are based on management's current expectations and are
subject to risks and uncertainties and changes in circumstances.
There are important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking
statements including, among others: the conditions of market; the
continued ability of CDC Factory solutions to address process
manufacturer's business requirements; demand for and market
acceptance of new and existing manufacturing operations management
solutions; and development of new functionalities which would allow
companies to compete more effectvely. Further information on risks
or other factors that could cause results to differ is detailed in
filings or submissions with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission made by CDC Corporation in its Annual Report
for the year ended December 31, 2007 on Form 20-F filed on June 30,
2008. All forward-looking statements included in this press release
are based upon information available to management as of the date
of the press release, and you are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on any forward looking statements which speak only as of
the date of this press release. The company assumes no obligation
to update or alter the forward looking statements whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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