Soapworks
Soapworks is located in Greater Easterhouse, a post war housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland and was established by Anita and Gordon Roddick, founders of The Body Shop.
Today, it is the UK’s largest manufacturer of soaps, employing over 100 full time permanent employees. The factory has grown to over 80,000 square feet with a modern soap production facility, supplying soaps to a large and diverse client base around the world.
Soapworks Journey of Soap
Challenge
In the early 2000’s the management team were tasked with implementing an autonomous business software solution.
Client Testimonial
"The company has been through some incredible changes in the last 10 years. The fact that we continue to grow and be profitable is largely down to the strength of the management team we have here at Soapworks and the great business partnership that we have with Turnkey. Their ability to take NAV, which has delivered so much from day one, and make the changes we need to adapt to a constantly changing business landscape has been instrumental in our success."
- Jan Zadruzynski, Managing Director, Soapworks.
Solution
Soapworks had very little in the way of technical infrastructure in place having relied for many years on the use of dumb screens linked to a centralised Unix Server.
Turnkey worked closely with everyone on the team to mould Microsoft Dynamics NAV into a complete end-to-end solution managing sales, procurement, inventory management, manufacturing, quality control and financials. The solution also introduced a full Microsoft business server and upgrade to all of the users’ PCs.
Today, the system covers the following key business areas:
- HR
- Warehousing
- Quality control including sampling, rejection
- Production across multiple automated and manually intensive lines
- Procurement matched to production to ensure minimum stock management
- Financial reporting including full monitoring of raw materials, WIP and finished goods
- Business Intelligence
- EDI connectivity to major retailers.
