Oleificio Zucchi increases its responsiveness and competitiveness with SAP

A fluctuating price of oil, complex relationships with the large-scale retail trade, the yield of the refining process and the need for efficient packaging systems - these are all determining aspects of our market.
In manufacturing, it is crucial to monitor the efficiencies and inefficiencies of work order processes, to keep track of stock levels in real time and to optimise factory processing.

In the financial field, the precise definition and allocation of costs to the individual product per customer results in a granular, precise marginality that has always been our lodestone, the key element on the basis of which we set our prices and define our market strategies: we have always managed this, at every level, but with systems that were not interfaced and integrated with each other, so it took time to align data between them and we therefore risked being late with respect to requirements.

We therefore realised that we had to take action to refine and speed up our data acquisition in order to obtain a clear view of business trends, while also making strategic decisions in a timely and reasoned manner for the production and sales channels in question.

To be more responsive in an ever-changing scenario and to give a significant boost to the business by further improving the quality of our product and our offering to our clients, we needed to simplify the existing IT architecture, characterised by a series of departmental applications the data from which then had to be transferred by hand to the older generation management system.
We needed to turn that data into solid, correct information to improve our operational efficiency and defend our margins.

This focus on data and the need for timely trend analysis are the key factors that led us to choose SAP ERP, a unique, integrated and scalable system that supports the rationalisation of internal processes and ensures efficient governance for the company.

With SAP ERP, in addition to obtaining certain and unambiguous data, we have drastically improved the timing of analyses, and this allows us to better attack the market, and revise or confirm our strategies in real time: the speed and efficiency of our reporting has increased by 30% (from quarterly to monthly) and this has made us even more competitive.

BMS, a Var Group company, and qualified SAP partner with expertise in our sector, facilitated our optimisation and innovation path.
Taking SAP Best Practices as the best solutions, already tried and tested by other companies in the same sector, the project was completed in consideration of the specificity and differentiating elements of Oleificio Zucchi.

BMS supports us on a daily basis, and has proved to be always ready to handle project criticalities with constructive solutions and suggestions.

Our SAP ERP is a facilitator in optimising and accelerating business processes, and is able to grow with us: we would therefore like to extend it to other areas of our business, like HR; we would also like to implement the SAP Business Intelligence solution to provide data in a synthetic and synoptic form, making it available to each department for efficient, collaborative and increasingly result-oriented decision making.