Making a vision come true at DenEast.
Stage 1 (2019): Versatile traceability and process automation solution.
Situation.
Visionary entrepreneur Johan Bodén knows how to make things happen – and always on an impressive scale. His story started in Sweden. Then he conquered Ukraine, reviving the agriculture and food industry with several enterprises. His critical investment was the Chumak company, famous for its top-quality and popular tomato ketchup.
Johan Bodén is now building something new in Vietnam and has his sights set on the rest of Southeast Asia. He has an ambitious plan with his partners to become one of Southeast Asia's largest contract-manufacturing producers of aseptic beverages.
Need.
In full production, Johan Bodén sees their company "DenEast" in Vietnam manufacturing and selling 1.5 billion packs annually by serving leading multinationals, global entities, and local solid brands in the region. Products will include nutrition, dairy, and non-dairy functional beverages.
Solution.
To help make the vision come true and establish DenEast's leading position in these highly competitive markets in Southeast Asia, DenEast decided to take on board CodeIT as a key technology partner. CodeIT specializes in versatile traceability and process automation solutions. They were chosen to provide a complete state-of-the-art traceability and documentation system to DenEast's new factory outside Ho Chi Minh City.
Johan Bodén says CodeIT was a natural choice as a long-term technology partner. CodeIT has a fully-fledged and highly competent organization in Vietnam that was established in 2013. This local strength and expertise are vital for DenEast.
Result.
Stage 1 of the factory was completed and approved according to Vietnam's Food Safety Regulations and certified under FSSC 22000, ISO 9000, HAACP for medical foods, and SMETA 4 Pillar registration in SEDEX. The factory is equipped with the latest technology from Tetra Pak, the world's leading food processing and packaging solutions company.
The DenEast factory [in Vietnam] is built according to Scandinavian industry standards, and CodeIT is perfectly matched for the strict requirements we have for our suppliers and the level of service we need to deliver to our customers.
Johan Bodén
Stage 2 (2021): Smart WMS (Warehouse Management System).
After a successful first year of operations, DenEast is now on the threshold of increasing capacity from 8,000L/hr. to 34,000L/hr. in 2021, as well as introducing several new packaging formats. This places even greater demand on warehouse and inventory management if the company’s high levels of production efficiency are to be retained and continuously improved at the same time as capacity is increased. What is extraordinary is that DenEast, in its role as a leading contract packer, makes products according to clients’ recipes and instructions, and they also have clients who provide their unique ingredients. These need to be specially monitored along with all the other raw materials used. All this places particular demands, particularly on inbound warehousing and inventory management, not only in warehouse dimensioning but also on logic and response speeds that need to be handled. There was no off-the-shelf solution available to cover everything they needed.
Find out how CodeIT solved the problem:
DenEast web site: https://www.deneast.com/