By Polly Raymond, 12 August 1998 17:35
NEWS A small manufacturing company, Freshbake Foods announced today it plans to spend £0.5m on a systems upgrade. The move supports the theory that IT investment remains a priority in the face of recession. Peter Beard, the company's IT manager, said: "The upgrade is essential and, although we would have preferred not to spend the money, the decision wasn't effected by the current manufacturing climate." All Freshbake's financial, logistics and customer service systems have run on System 21 developed by enterprise management software company, JBA, for the last ten years. The upgrade is needed to solve the Year 2000 problem. Beard said he opted to upgrade with JBA again to avoid the training costs associated with a completely new system. The manufacturing operations are controlled through a separate suite of JBA software but the company will make its own Year 2000 modifications manually. "It was a question of time, we couldn't adjust the programming in both halves ourselves and so just upgraded the finance and admin side," said Beard.
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