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— Ashley Colyer , Acting CIO , Foodstuffs North Island

Colyer explained that the second broad area of focus was around internal processes optimisation . “ We asked , how will we operate more efficiently and effectively ? How do we optimise our supply chain ? How do we reduce the amount of manual effort associated with core business activities ? For example , with support from EY , we deployed new transport management and warehouse management systems that have really underpinned our supply chain transformation . We ’ re also three years into a program of simplifying the internal user experience of some of our core applications – notably the SAP platform – and moving away from user interfaces that are hard to understand and easy to get wrong , to applications with very defined purposes , built with the end user in mind . This makes it easy for people to do their job with very little training , essentially replicating the consumer technology experience .”

Colyer also notes that Foodstuffs North Island leads the charge in New Zealand with the adoption of Office 365 which has seen over 3mn documents moved to the cloud . “ That ’ s

JUNE 2019