For the rows of numbers in the header

“I have the most important number series in my head ” says Peter Cornelius owner and managing director of the traditional Palatinate company of the same name. “I handle sales myself.” This is made possible by the industry software from Winweb:

Cornelius GmbH's core competence in Hockenheim lies in the production of Palatine liver sausage. “In these economically and politically turbulent times, flexibility and creativity are required”, says Cornelius. “The volatile raw materials market is putting increasing pressure on food producers. In addition, long-term sustainability concepts must be developed. We owe that to consumers as well as to future generations.” Peter Cornelius is certain that this can succeed: “We have already proven in the past that we recognized market changes at an early stage and responded to them with innovative concepts and strategies. Our continuous and forward-looking investments in the company have paid off.”

Compact analyses

One of them was certainly the early use of an ERP system, 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 age of technology”, recalls Cornelius. And a little later, the trained master butcher, who runs the traditional Palatinate company in the third generation, became one of Winweb's first customers. “Before I decided on winweb-food, I too painstakingly kept an Excel file and printed out my statistics page after page with a dot-matrix printer”, Cornelius says with a smile.

Everything digitally connected

Already during goods receipt, the ordered quantities are compared in winweb-food with the delivered actual quantities, the batches for the Traceability recorded and at the same time QS test plans queried. Then the invoices for the received goods are automatically checked in the system, in the integrated Document management system assigned to the supplier and transmitted to financial accounting. A part of the production also runs via the ERP system: This is how the Recipes for the Palatinate specialties managed via winweb-food, the production planned and the Storage capacities recorded. Batch traceability, item labeling and empties management round off the range.

Sales prices per click

And new topics keep coming up: Since January 2023, actual recipe weighing has been recorded via mobile devices. Cornelius is also interested in recipe costing including the calculation of material prices and production costs. “I’m really a numbers person”, says Cornelius, who learned the trade from the ground up as a master butcher and then added a business administration qualification. Production records can also be evaluated quickly and flexibly. The result flows into the production cost calculation, making it possible to calculate even more precisely. Because in the endcalculated Cornelius his sales prices in the system with a click of the mouse, taking into account all conditions and downstream costs. This also includes annual rebates, advertising allowances or freight and overhead costs.

Direct store delivery without paper

For major customers throughout Germany from Edeka to Metro to Netto with the Winweb-owned EDI-Converter implemented the capture of customer orders, electronic delivery and freight forwarding order messages, as well as invoice transmission – which is now significantly more efficient and less prone to errors and is of course also a prerequisite for being allowed to supply major customers: “It is quite exciting that our customers nowadays no longer want paper”, explains Cornelius. Picking is largely done by scanner: This also reduces errors and ensures faster processing. The freight forwarding orders are transmitted to the freight forwarder in winweb-food via the EDI-IFTMIN interface after successful loading control and the required NVE labels are printed directly from the ERP system.

Since January 2023, in Document management system Collected documents: supplier certificates, item specifications or certificates of conformity, for which there is automatically a reminder when they have expired. At the same time, Cornelius is currently checking whether also Incoming invoices and delivery notes are to be posted via winweb-food. “All in all, winweb-food works 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 make sure that happens, Cornelius always passed on his ideas and tips directly: “Over the 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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