SAN HÀ FOODS & FABBRI GROUP: TOGETHER FOR A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
THE PROBLEM: when manual wrapping cannot cope anymore…
In Vietnam, the brand “San Hà” identifies, among others, fresh wrapped chicken and duck products on sale at most Vietnamese supermarkets.
At the beginning of 2015, San Hà Foods was a traditional medium-sized family-owned poultry house, located in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, with a fairly good manual packaging system producing around 5-mln packs/year.
However, a fast increasing business was putting the Company – at that time on the edge of its capacity – clearly into troubles: the complete packaging system needed to be audited and improved quickly.
THE SOLUTION: give it a hand and switch to automation!
San Hà Foods had a turnover of max. 30 people working in 2 shifts at 20 hand-wrapping stations, reaching the peak speed of no. 3,400 trays/h.
Thanks to the support of Fabbri Group’s local dealer FPT during a previous auditing period, the Company agreed on the need of improving its packaging efficiency through automation. This would have involved:
– The purchase of a new, fast automatic wrapper
– The review of the current packaging procedures
– A new organization of the packaging room
– An initial need for local technical support and staff training on the new automatic line
The right answer to all the above came from Fabbri Group’s superior automatic wrapper Automac 55 Più combined with a continuous, competent and careful pre- and post-sale assistance from FPT:
– January 2015: beginning of discussion with the Client and case management
– March 2015: FPT offers San Hà Foods an Automac 55 Più on trial
– April 2015: satisfied of the field test results, San Hà Foods orders the machine
– Today: at present Fabbri Group’s Automac 55 Più works at 45 pcs/1’, employing just 4 operators totally, for the benefit of San Hà Foods’ productivity and human resources management
– Before the end of 2016: sale of 2 other additional machines Automac 55 Più to San Hà Foods
VIDEO
THE ONE WHO DARES IS REWARDED BY A BETTER BUSINESS
Interview with Mr. Giang – San Ha Foods Deputy Managing Director
What was your main reason for preferring an automatic wrapper instead of your usual manual system?
The manual system has many advantages and many disadvantages: it depends on the size of business what makes the most out of it. For small-size business, manual systems can offer low cost investment, easy to buy, easy to maintain, easy to operate. However, medium-size businesses, like ours, concentrate on efficiency, effectiveness and laborsaving, then the manual system is irrelevant.
For our capacity, we need at least 20 hand-wrap machines, which need at least 30 people to operate: taking into account people problem, then it is better for us to invest into an automatic system.
Why Fabbri Group instead of other manufacturers?
We have tried other packaging machine manufacturers but they don’t match our needs, while Fabbri Group does. For instance, we tried shrink bags, but the machine doesn’t work well.
Also the after-sales services are key: the representative partner here has done a very good job taking care of us!
Was there any internal issue or doubt you had to clear-up before deciding?
The greatest doubt we used to have was: who will take care of us in case of machine breakdown?
Thanks to FPT, they can fix the machines and advise us on how to use them.
Could you mention a few facts showing how Fabbri Group’s Automac 55 Più improved your business?
The product looks nicer, clean and neat if compared to that coming from a hand-wrapping machine.
Although the machine creates huge investment costs, taking into consideration the savings on labor costs and on people-generated problems, the investment is worth it.
INFO
– For more info on San Hà Foods: http://sanha.vn/en/
– To contact FPT: tan@fpt-asia.vn
– To contact Fabbri Group or ask for a customized offer: sales@gruppofabbri.com
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