Digitisation does the business for Mowi
Switching from paper-based records has been a big plus for Fife factory
Salmon farmer Mowi’s secondary processing subsidiary in Rosyth, Scotland, has more than doubled its product and quality audits from 3,000 to more than 7,000 per month by switching from paper to digital record keeping.
Mowi Consumer Products UK has managed to cut its paper-based records by 90% using a mobile-first workplace operations platform, SafetyCulture, and aims to become near-paperless in future.
Digitisation means the Fife company, which employs nearly 1,000 people and supplies major UK retailers such as Sainsbury’s with own-label fresh, smoked, ready-to-cook and deli products, now creates a new audit or check every five minutes.
Quicker traceability
Having digital records has also significantly improved traceability, enabling the retrieval of information within minutes and making evidence easily available for customers and auditors, SafetyCulture said in a press release.
It also provides Mowi’s management team with dashboards of real-time frontline data previously locked away in storage, enabling them to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
The processing facility has achieved the Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard’s AA+ accreditation - the highest rating for food packaging businesses - for the past four years.
Competitive advantage
Mowi Consumer Products UK’s senior quality manager David Bett said: “We’ve found so many functional benefits from digitising our processes. But the real impact has come from the additional confidence of being able to prove our processes to customers and auditors and show them the resulting data. That’s really given us an extra competitive advantage and is a contributing factor to retaining our accreditation.”
Mowi’s Anna Giusti was pivotal in introducing the technology while working as a production operator, and worked with SafetyCulture’s team to develop new functionality and reporting.
“In Rosyth, we’re very much a centre of excellence. The company is full of passionate people who invest their time and careers in improving processes, and we’re reaping the benefits of that,” said Giusti.
“And the digitisation programme has also enabled me to progress in my career to become a business data analyst, as I’m helping the business become more efficient.”
