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Westway Feed Products: more than 50 hours of time saving W
hen there are changes on the raw materials market, Westway Feed Products shifts gears quickly. The formulation software BESTMIX and the ERP solution MILAS help this specialist in the field of liquid animal feed supplements to ensure its customers optimum quality for a correct price. Moreover, the synergy between both Adifo software solutions allows more than 50 hours of time saving! Westway Feed Products is the largest North American manufacturer of liquid animal feed supplements. This experienced company supports livestock farmers by means of liquid feed supplements, feed mill products, feed supplement tubs, dried molasses and a range of industrial products. Although the main ingredient is molasses, this manufacturer also processes additional co-products such as glycerin, whey, corn solubles, corn steep and soy solubles.
The challenge “During the corona crisis, fuel prices have sharply decreased,” says Larry Wallace Jr., technical services manager at Westway Feed Products. “The availability of biodiesel has decreased, which compromised the supply of glycerin - a co-product of biodiesel - for our feed supplements. Furthermore, we had to reformulate, amongst other things, the recipes with Condensed Molasses Solubles (CMS). Obviously, we had to quickly respond to this modified
ingredient availability.” The solution For the reformulation, Westway Feed Products relied on BESTMIX. “This software gives us insight into the impact of a recipe adaptation on the end product,” Larry Wallace Jr. explains. “The formulation software seamlessly transfers these new recipes to the MILAS ERP package. This allows us to save lots of time and effort, compared to our previous software application.” “For our formulators, the
What preceded In 2012, Westway Feed Products opted for BESTMIX as a software solution in order to streamline its recipe formulation. In 2018, MILAS, the sector-specific ERP extension for Microsoft Dynamics, was implemented. Today, MILAS is live at 6 of the 28 production entities of Westway Feed Products. Since last year, this company also relies on the integration of graphic labels (or ‘feed tags’) between BESTMIX and MILAS.
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