Harry’s Fresh Foods implements ScanWorks™ from eNSYNC

Customer Profile

Harry’s Fresh Foods, of Portland, OR, is a specialty manufacturer of pre-prepared foods. Harry’s is unique because they prepare small batches of each product which are then quickly refrigerated (Never Frozen) and packaged for the consumer and Food Service market. “Our products are always fresh, never frozen. Our natural process allows each product to safely maintain a fresh refrigerated shelf life of many days under normal refrigeration - without added preservatives! Because they don't go through a freeze in our manufacturing process, our ingredients remain at their best.”

Business Problem

At Harry’s everything is Lot controlled Raw Material tracking and the issuing of that material to the Shop Floor is a concern for all Process Manufactures. Harry’s makes extensive use of Lot Numbers for freshness control so accurate and timely material tracking and reporting from the preparation areas, cookers and finished goods warehouse were major objectives of the project. Harry’s turned to eNSYNC solutions for their in-depth knowledge of the Distribution and Manufacturing components within IFS and their “out-of-the-box” bar code solution for IFS' ScanWorks™.

Solution Delivered

eNSYNC conducted a site survey and requirements gathering exercise on ScanWorks™ and recommended several initial transactions from the 30+ pre built standard ScanWorks™ transactions with options for more in the future.

Harry’s Fresh Foods Project Deliverables:

Wireless RF Scanning for:

-14 MobileWork Users

- Intermec 2425 Handhelds

-7 TransWorks Transactions

-1 Custom Label Reprint Transaction

-IFS version 2003

What makes Harry’s unique is the need to pick and ship governed by a freshness date which consists of the products normal expiriration date plus the shipment transit time to each customer location. To insure freshness, every shipment must be picked by the proper Part/Lot and matched against the Customer freshness requirements. Special labeling and real time validation provided by ScanWorks™ enables them to locate and validate the proper lots.

In addition to the custom Picking Transaction, the following standard ScanWorks™ Transactions for IFS Applications Version 2004 were delivered:

Receive from PO
Change Part Location
Shop Order Receive and Over Receive
Inquiry (Part/Lot/ Look up Location)
Picking
Cycle Count
Label Reprint

eNSYNC Solutions supplied the RF equipment, which is comprised of Intermec 2425 handhelds and a Intermec 802.11B wireless network. ScanWorks™ is hardware independent.

Benefits Received

With food safety and freshness paramount to Harry’s, timely and accurate information is critical. Streamlining data entry and product look-ups with ScanWorks™ directly into the IFS database is helping Harry’s ensure each customer receives the very best products while making plant personnel more efficient by having critical information in their hands and not having to spend hours at a desk recording and looking up data.

Customer Feedback

“eNSYNC entered our project at a critical time with creative and practical solutions to our problems. With a slight modification to their standard picking transaction, we were able to avoid a more costly modification to IFS. With ScanWork’s out-of-the-box transactions and eNSYNC’s knowledge of IFS we were able to meet our aggressive GO-Live commitment.”

-Brad Paris, Harry’s Fresh Project Manager www.harrysfresh.com.