Anglia Business Solutions has been appointed by Noble Foods to deploy its award winning LINKFresh® suite across the group. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV based system will manage all of the company’s supply chain activities at its various UK subsidiaries.

LINKFresh is a highly sophisticated but easy to use end to end supply chain system specifically designed for the food manufacturing and distribution industry. The solution will encompass Finance, Planning, live Inventory Management, Quality Control, and Packing Centre Management.

The solution will be implemented to replace Noble’s existing Ross Systems solution at its headquarters in Tring, Hertfordshire and also at its packing centres in North Scarle, Lincolnshire and Thornton, Fife.  A combination of the LINKFresh core functionality and state of the art integrated mobility technology will provide real time access to product information dynamically as it moves through the entire supply chain.  The solution will also include an interface with Noble’s Moba egg grading equipment to collect grading, packaging and traceability data.  The solution is due to go live in March 2009.

Commenting on the project John Kirby, Director of Business Systems Development at Noble said, “As part of our strategy, we needed a world class IT solution to assist us in achieving our commercial ambitions. The Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite is the leading mid range system with a healthy roadmap of development which will satisfy our business system requirements for many years.  The food industry functionality incorporated in Anglia’s LINKFresh suite highlighted their expertise in dealing with the supply of fresh produce to our key customers - the supermarkets.

This, together with Anglia’s proven track record were key differentiators in our selection process.”

Robert Frost, Commercial Director for Anglia also comments, “We are delighted to welcome the UK’s leading supplier of eggs as a new LINKFresh customer. The deployed solution will be an excellent example of how the broad food supply chain functionality within the LINKFresh solution can accommodate the needs of a niche sector such as the egg business.”