East Coast Olive Oil

Food Manufacturing and Distribution

Based in Utica, NY

80 employees

Manufacturer and importer of olive oil

Owns several other companies related to the main business including Utica Plastics (olive oil packaging), Olive Transport (olive oil delivery) and California Olive Oil Corporation

Revenues $15M

Challenge

• Using a legacy SBT Accounting system for 15 years
• As the distribution network grew, the system could not keep pace with increasing demand
• Wanted to improve planning and scheduling through MRP deployment
• Needed to handle higher transaction volumes
• Seeking to integrate raw materials with production orders and scheduling

Solution

• Sage ERP X3
• Offered the needed depth of functionality across manufacturing, distribution and accounting
• System's scalability would help facilitate their business expansion without requiring a change of systems or installation of third-party add-on's

Results

• Entire manufacturing process is fully automated
• Upgraded from a manually-intensive bar coding procedure to an automated scanning process