A lot of meat in a small area

Suitable software is required to make the entire inventory management process efficient and clear

The "Bruckwirt" inn run by the Hochhauser family in Pichl dates back to the founding year of 1750. And in 2014 the butcher's tradition celebrates its 100th anniversary.
From what great-grandfather Hans Hochhauser founded shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, today a modern slaughtering, cutting and processing facility has become on EU standard

Leading niche specialist

Until 1990, the Hochhauser butcher's shop also had the traditional arrangement: "In the back" production takes place, "in the front" sales are made. But over the years it became clear that more and more customers were buying meat and sausage in the supermarket. The butcher family’s response was: "Then we will also build a supermarket".
Retail sales were closed and the supermarket plan at the headquarters was implemented. The courage was rewarded: Today, the butcher family owns three Spar markets. From then on, things only kept improving and the company became a regionally significant niche specialist, supplying a wide range of customers from small catering businesses to large meat-processing industrial companies. Throughout all these expansions and modernizations, the Hochhausers remained true to their roots. “We only source animals from the region. And by region we primarily mean the Hausruckviertel area of Upper Austria”, says Managing Director Hannes Hochhauser. Anyone who visits the butcher shop is amazed by the enormous quantities of meat processed in this spatially compact operation. Now the Hochhausers have also bought operational reliability as part of their success.

Manage a multitude of operational tasks

With the help of integrated enterprise software Hochhauser manages and controls all areas that involve money: Goods receipt– and Goods issue, acceptance and execution of orders, delivery notes and invoices. Hochhauser considers the investment decision for the right software to be one of the most important decisions of all. And accordingly carefully he prepared the decision: Years before, Hannes Hochhauser used colleague contacts to inquire about software experiences.
But he found no solution among his colleagues that he was completely satisfied with: “One time the system was good for slaughtering, another time there was a good sausage costing. But for the depth at which our company works, there was nothing suitable.”

Data overview

With the introduction of the software winweb-food by Winweb, the time-consuming and laborious work with Excel spreadsheets is a thing of the past. To the question “Have your expectations been met?”, Hochhauser answers without any doubt: “Yes, my expectations have been fully met in every respect.” As the most important advantage, the young boss cites the Price maintenance. Because with the many different cuts and special customer requests, a lot of data accumulates here.

The second important area in which Fleischerei Hochhauser has now bought itself an advantage with the software is called “Traceability“. Hochhauser adds: “By this I mean not only the traceability of animals, meat or processing batches. The traceability of customer data is also an advantage.” Before submitting a quote, he likes to check: “Which quotes did I most recently make to this customer?” and “What did this customer most recently buy and when?”.

Attractive employer

The advantages of the new software do not only affect the bosses of the family business. After all, ten PCs as well as scales, label printers and scanners – from packaging to dispatch – are connected to the software. And employees who have never worked with a computer before also work with these devices. This not only makes it attractive to buy from Hochhauser, but also to work here.

Quite incidentally, the new software has also accomplished the most important task: “Everything is much faster and the members of the owner family have a little more free time as a result. The last question to Hannes Hochhauser concerns the price-performance ratio. His answer: “A good mechanic should also buy good tools.”

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