JBS Swift & Company Upgrades RedPrairie WMS To Improve "Perfect Orders"

RedPrairie Corporation, a leading consumer driven optimization company, announced recently that JBS Swift & Company, one of the leading processors of fresh beef and pork in the U.S., has upgraded to a new version of RedPrairie Warehouse Management (WMS) in its Grand Island, NE plant/distribution center. JBS Swift & Company has been a RedPrairie customer for 17 years and upgraded to a new version of RedPrairie Warehouse Management to gain new capabilities and visibility into processing and distribution. JBS Swift & Company upgraded to the new WMS in the summer of 2007 at the Nebraska facility, and has since rolled out the solution to two additional facilities in 2008.

The Grand Island site is a combination of processing facility and a 56,000-square foot distribution center. The facility processes and ships over 2.1 million pounds of beef and meat by-products every day. The company reviewed its supply chain technology and chose RedPrairie for its three U.S. distribution centers. At the time, the company was running three different solutions and wanted a common platform.

"We knew we needed more than just software – we wanted a partner. We were in the midst of a new strategy for our supply chain. Our mission was to continuously elevate and sustain superior levels of satisfaction for our customers." RedPrairie became a "true partner in this goal," said Rajan Nagarajan, JBS Swift & Company CIO.

As a leading food processor, there are additional requirements for food safety and traceability. RedPrairie gave JBS Swift & Company visibility into merchandise and the capability to transition product seamlessly from processing to storage and distribution. The company operates a very lean operation with the distribution center as an extended facility of its manufacturing facility. The product has to be kept moving through the chain to avoid any bottlenecks and the "RedPrairie solution sure enables this process." Reliability and proven "uptime" were two additional reasons JBS Swift & Company deployed the RedPrairie solution.

Nagarajan continued, "RedPrairie has streamlined our operations like it was never done before. We have gained efficiencies in the plant and can consistently fulfill demand with accuracy. We have less waste because we know exactly what is where."

"Any way you want to measure it, it was a huge success. Far and away the smoothest implementation I have ever been part of," said Kent Pendley, Beef Production Planning & Scheduling for JBS Swift & Company.

About JBS Swift & Company
JBS Swift & Company is a family owned and operated business with a drive and focus centered on the business for its customers. In 2007 JBS Swift & Company sales topped $10 B (US) with exports greater than $3B (US) in the Beef, Pork and Australian divisions. JBS Swift & Company is one of the leading processors of fresh beef and pork in the U.S., and one of the main beef processors in Australia. Swift processes, prepares, packages, markets, and delivers fresh, further processed and value-added beef and pork products to customers in the U.S. and international markets.

Between the company's manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and the corporate office over 16,500 people are employed in the U.S.

For additional information, please visit www.jbsswift.com.

About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer driven Optimization Company. Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 15 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to over 32,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies.

RedPrairie's E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the "last yard" problem of the retail supply chain.

SOURCE: RedPrairie Corporation