Burton’s Biscuits go live with sofco Supply Planning

July 2021

sofco, a leading provider of integrated and collaborative End-to-End Planning Solutions for the Consumer Goods, Manufacturing Retail sectors, are delighted to announce that one of the UK’s best loved biscuit brands has gone live with sofco Supply Planning.

Burton’s Biscuits have been baking since the 1900s. Today they supply the UK’s leading retailers with some of the UK’s most iconic biscuit brands. With over 2000 biscuit experts up and down the country, they are proud to produce iconic brands such as the cheeky Jammie Dodger, the choc chip filled Maryland Cookie, or the great big Wagon Wheel – Burton’s have a brand that will bring a smile to every face.

The ‘One Burtons’ solution allows Burton’s to closely control inventory levels and product life whilst maintaining efficient production run lengths and minimal changeover times. sofco Supply Planning gives users the ability to create a realistic production plan via specific site and line algorithms, which can then be fine-tuned by each site’s planning team as and when required. sofco Supply Planning brings together requirements by recipe (allergen) groups and formats, based on a pre-defined cycling pattern for each production line controlled by the users.

"We are delighted with the implementation, our solution seamlessly integrated with Burton’s SAP, and now provides a viable Supply Plan for all production sites."
Keith Noble
CEO at sofco

Trusted by our clients

"Greencore is involved in multiple categories, supplying a diverse range of products with different characteristics that require very different manufacturing processes. We selected sofco as they have an End-to-End planning and execution system that can be configured easily to fit these disparate demands. Our approach is much more sophisticated and collaborative now."
Chris Chestney
IT Business Partner, Greencore

"What impressed us most about the sofco people was they understood our business, listened, and would bring a lot of experience to the project. They brought solid solutions to the issues we presented them with. It was clear from the outset that we were going to be able to work well together as a team and deliver this project. That is exactly what has happened."
Barbara Van den Berg
Project Manager, Van Geloven

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