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„I know the key figures by heart,“ says Peter Cornelius, owner and managing director of the long-established Palatinate company that bears his name. „I handle sales myself.“ This is made possible by Winweb's industry-specific software:

The core expertise of Cornelius GmbH in Hockenheim lies in the production of Palatinate liver sausage. “In these economically and politically turbulent times, flexibility and creativity are essential”, says Cornelius. “The volatile raw materials market is placing food producers under increasing pressure. Long-term sustainability strategies must also be developed. We owe that to consumers and future generations alike.” Peter Cornelius is certain that this can be achieved: “We have already demonstrated in the past that we identified market changes at an early stage and responded to them with innovative concepts and strategies. Our continuous, forward-looking investments in the company have paid off.”

Concise analyses

One of these was certainly the early adoption of an ERP system, at a time when most competitors were still calculating their figures and data by hand. “When I took over the company from my father in 2002, I started with a DOS system to bring our company into the technological age,” Cornelius recalls. And shortly afterwards, the master butcher, who is the third generation to run the long-established Palatinate company, became one of Winweb’s first customers. “Before I decided on winweb-food, I too painstakingly maintained an Excel file and printed out pages and pages of my statistics on a dot matrix printer,” Cornelius says with a smile.

Everything digitally connected

Right at goods receipt the quantities ordered in winweb-food are compared with the quantities actually delivered, and the batches for traceability are recorded and simultaneously quality assurance inspection plans are retrieved. The invoices for the goods received are then automatically checked in the system, with the integrated document management system assigning them to the supplier and transmitting them to financial accounting. Part of production is also managed through the ERP system: This is how the recipes for the Palatinate specialties are managed through winweb-food, production is planned and the warehouse capacities are recorded. Batch traceability, product labeling and returnable empties management complete the range of functions.

Selling prices at the click of a mouse

And new topics keep being added: Since January 2023, actual recipe weighing has been recorded using mobile devices. Cornelius is also interested in recipe costing, including the calculation of material prices and production costs. „I’ve always been a numbers person“, says Cornelius, a master butcher who learned the trade from the ground up before qualifying as a business administrator. The recorded production data can also be analyzed quickly and flexibly. The results are incorporated into the production cost calculation, enabling even more accurate costing. After all, ultimately, this is how the calculation of Cornelius’s selling prices in the system works: with a click, taking into account all terms and downstream costs. These also include annual rebates, advertising allowances, freight costs and overheads.

Paperless delivery operations

For major customers throughout Germany, from Edeka and Metro to Netto, the proprietary Winweb EDI-based converter was used to implement the processing of customer orders, electronic delivery and freight order notifications, and invoice transmission – making these processes significantly more efficient and less prone to error while, of course, also meeting a prerequisite for supplying major customers: „It is quite remarkable that our customers no longer want any paper documents these days“, Cornelius explains. Orders are picked almost entirely using scanners: This also reduces errors and ensures faster processing. Once the load has been successfully verified, freight orders are transmitted from winweb-food to the carrier via the EDI-IFTMIN interface, and the required SSCC labels are printed directly from the ERP system.

Since January 2023 documents have been collected in the document management system : supplier certificates, item specifications, or declarations of conformity, with automatic reminders when they expire. At the same time, Cornelius is currently assessing whether incoming invoices and delivery notes should also be posted via winweb-food. „All in all, winweb-food runs well 99 percent of the time.“ Cornelius is also satisfied with the maintenance and update arrangements:

Of course, there is always room for improvement. To help make that happen, Cornelius always passed on his ideas and tips directly: “Over our many years of working together, Peter Cornelius has helped move Winweb forward with his suggestions,” says Winweb CEO Willi von Berg.

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