Case Studies

Fenmarc is a large supplier of a wide range of quality fresh and prepared produce to major supermarkets. It employs over 500 people at its 3 factories – 2 within 10 miles of March and another 70 miles away at Swinderby.

Queensgate Shopping Centre dominates the centre of Peterborough. It is owned by Norwich Union and managed by Jones Lang LaSalle. The centre is completely covered, has two shopping levels and over 90 shops. The anchor stores are John Lewis, Waitrose, BHS, M&S, H&M, Boots and Argos. The Centre is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which involves staff working various shift patterns.

Hallmark Consumer Services, based in Melton Mowbray in the heart of Leicestershire, is a private company, has a 25,000 sq. ft modern racked warehouse, call centre and office facilities all coordinated from one site.  The factory employs around 50 office and warehouse staff at this site. “The warehouse staff are paid weekly and the office and call staff are paid monthly. Originally the warehouse staff completed manual timesheets which were processed weekly. Very labour intensive!” Said Philip Hall.

Jewson is the UK’s foremost Timber and Building Materials Supplier with over 586 branches nationwide, many of which contain a tool hire facility too. – so you can buy and hire under the same roof.  The national distribution centre located in Cannock just north of Birmingham serves over 586 Jewson Group stores around the UK and used to have an old punch-card time and attendance system. They installed a Tensor system to reduce the amount of administration time taken in processing the 90 warehouse employee time cards.

C B L Ceramics is a manufacturer of specialist ceramics products based in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The company focuses on the manufacture of beryllium oxide ceramics and hot pressed composite ceramics with complete in-house facilities for pressing, firing, metallizing and precision machining of simple to complex parts.

York Barbell is one of the worlds leading brands of fitness equipment, designing and manufacturing products in Canada, the UK, USA and the Far East. Their equipment is distributed to 40 countries around the world. In January 2000 Operations Manager, Nelson Oliver, was in search of a computerised Time & Attendance system which included a good Absence Planning system and Access Control facility for the factory itself and the area where personnel records were kept.

Glenair have 3 sites within a mile of each other in Mansfield near Nottingham where they supply the European Aerospace industry with a wide range of interconnection components and systems.

Suttons Seeds is an internationally renowned supplier of flower and vegetable seeds, young plants, bulbs, fruit bushes and other horticultural products to amateur gardeners. Sutton’s have a reputation for quality and service that’s 2nd none and a remarkable history going back almost two hundred years. They have had to constantly develop new ideas and embrace new technology to grow the business.

Alcon Components was established in 1984 by engineer and sports car racer John Moore in order to make brakes for Audi Sport’s Group B Quattro rally cars.

Fold Hill Foods Ltd are manufacturers of dried pet food and have been producing pet foods for over 20 years. They have gained and maintained an enviable reputation for quality and for this reason are now the largest supplier in the UK of dry pet food for retailers’ “own brands”.

Essilor is the worlds largest manufacturer of spectacle lenses. Essilor has had a presence in Britain since 1881 when Société des Lunetiers opened it’s British operation in Hatton Garden, London. It maintained a presence in the city until 1975 when the company moved its offices and production facilities to Thornbury, near Bristol. The group employs 23,000 personnel world-wide, with around 400 people employed at Thornbury.

Preci-Spark is one of the leading suppliers of aerospace and gas turbine engine components. This involves high-tech fabrications and precision machining. The group employs around 400 personnel and 4 months ago Systems Manager, Ian Delom, was in search of a Time & Attendance system to remove the delays involved with their manual clock card system. He also wanted to make the section leaders job a lot easier by providing up-to-date information.