Founded over 35 years ago Bobby’s Foods PLC have grown from a single van delivering to local shops in Bromsgrove and the surrounding county of Worcestershire to a UK wide operation working out of 11 regional depots and servicing 18,000 shops/stores, selling a wide range of snacks, confectionary and cakes.

Executive Summary

Bobby’s needed central visibility of their national operation, as the multiple and remote sites meant they were running the business inefficiently, with disjointed processes. Bobby’s recognised the need to have integrated Finance and van sales system allowing them to link the sites together, co-ordinate stock, as well as support the operational van-sales drivers whilst interacting with customers. Using Sage and Innov8’s innvan tablet app, this enabled the business to unlock further potential.

The Implementation

The solution needed to be comprehensive and incorporated into their accounts system (Sage 50 initially and latterly Sage 200). Leverging the power of Sage and Innov8’s Sage Addition: innvan – this has enabled them to do exactly that.

Sage powers the financials and the more industry specfic functionality – linking to the mobile tablet app, is picked up by innvan. The level to which Sage and innvan is used within the business, makes it core to the business operations now, with several additional aspects of personalistion having also been developed within innvan for Bobby’s.

Results

  • Regional depot stock and van stock centrally visible
  • National sales quickly and accurately reported
  • Use of integrated industry specfic software operational, alongside the power of Sage Financials
  • Customer orders flexibily and fully managed – previously not possible

“Having worked with Innov8 for many years, we know them extremely well both professionally and personally and they are excellent at what they do. Sage & Innvan was just the beginning, each and every subsequent purchase we have made, including all the handset hardware and several refreshes, we have been satisfied with – it has helped us grow and manage the business” Finance Manager, Bobby’s Foods