NFIC signs up with Mirnah for Van Sales

NFIC with two major brands LUNA MILK and GREEN FARM is the largest integrated canned food industry in the Middle East with ultra modern facilities, involved in the processing and packaging of a wide variety of canned products such as foul, various beans, evaporated milk, sterilized cream, Milk powder in cans and sachets, tomato paste in cans and in tetra packs and peanut butter in jars and in PET.

With the ever increasing demand for its products the company has decided to modernize its distribution system by implementing Mirnah’s Hand Held Computers and software applications.

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NFIC was established in Jeddah Saudi Arabia in 1989 and started its commercial production in 1993. The factory is the largest integrated canned food industry in the Middle East with ultra modern facilities, involved in the processing and packaging of a wide variety of canned products such as foul, various beans, evaporated milk, sterilized cream, Milk powder in cans and sachets, tomato paste in cans and in tetra packs and peanut butter in jars and in PET.
The factory packs its products in two major brands - LUNA and GREEN FARM. LUNA is the more popular brand as it is considered 'best value for money'. GREEN FARM brand is the premium quality products.
The factory was built, designed and equipped to meet all international standards within the food industry. With a highly trained operating staff, a sophisticated computerized operation and with careful scrutiny at all levels of products by a team of highly skilled quality control staff, the factory has achieved a sustained level of quality performance in the processing of its products over the years.
In 1998 the factory was accredited with ISO 9002 certification. In the year 2001 it was the first factory in the region to be certified with HACCP, SQF 2000 and ISO 9001, All of which represents achievements in quality performance in the processing and packaging of products.
The factory is also supported by its own can making facility which enables it to produce high quality cans and ends in various sizes together with the facility to print and lacquer .In addition the factory also has a separate tetra pack line to produce aseptic products.
In terms of market distribution within the Kingdom, it rank's number one in evaporated milk. Likewise in the foul and pulses it is number one in the market. In the tomato paste category in 70 grams it holds the number one position in the region.
The factory has a total staff of around 600 people and is located at the Jeddah Industrial City, phase 5. Its location near the Jeddah/Makkah highway and very near to the shipping terminal, enables it to smoothly handle all import and export transaction both by land and by sea.
With the ever increasing demand on its products, the company has since increased its production capacity by installing new machineries and equipments and is now in a position to entertain increased orders for both local & export markets.

RoutePro®.Net is launched!

The new Intermec HHCs(Hand Held Computers) run on Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. Customers that purchased 5 to 6 years back have got used to DOS type software applications. They would like to replace old units with latest devices, but retain the same software look and feel to help users with the transition.  

In order to provide continuity to such customers, Mirnah has developed a new software RoutePro®.Net. This product includes all functionalities of the previous DOS software, and runs on the latest Windows Mobile/Pocket PC platform.

RoutePro®.Net is a product of the emerging .Net technology and is developed using C#.Net. It gives customers the opportunity to migrate to Intermec 700 HHCs seamlessly with their existing set-up. For existing customers that have the old DOS HHCs, the new devices and software can operate side by side without changes in the current work flow followed by the end-users. Typically a two hour training can get the salesmen started on the route, since the interface of RoutePro®.Net is the same as that of the DOS programs. Customers have the option to retain their backoffice, or go for the new .NET version which is also developed in C#.Net.

RoutePro®.Net goes live at Nadec!

Nadec was the first company to implement RoutePro®.Net. This month (May 2006) their Sulay depot went live with the new software and new Intermec 741 series devices for their 60 routes.

StockPro Inventory Management

Mirnah, in an effort to extend its software to manage inventories and data collection at depots, have developed and launched a new product by the Name of StockPro.

StockPro will compliment Mirnah’s Van Sales application and will use existing data from it to plan production and maintain Inventory at depots. This application was completely developed on the Microsoft .NET platform and has two components. The one that runs on a PC(or Server) is used by internal users in Sales and Production departments to record Inventory transactions such as Production output, Sales Orders, Delivery Orders, Sales Returns and Purchases from vendors. The other component runs on Hand Held Devices which are connected using Radio Frequency Networks to the BackOffice database. This software is used by Stores personnel who are constantly on the move receiving or issuing items or counting stock inside their Stores. Such users cannot use a PC as they need to record transactions on the move. Using a Hand Held Computer that transmits data online, they are able to capture important data inside the Stores on a real time basis.
A high-end version of this product has been planned for the future, which will provide specialized capabilities for printing labels, Kitting and Splitting of items and some more inventory functions.

Nada implements StockPro

Nada was the first company to implement this software. The software has helped them in moving products in a FIFO basis and maintaining accurate stock position at all times.