Damate Group to invest over 300 mln rubles in digitalization by 2025
MOSCOW. Aug 27 (Interfax) - Damate Group, Russia's leading turkey producer plans to invest more than 300 million rubles in digitalization by 2025.
"The implementation of the long-term program to comprehensively digitalize enterprises is continuing. The introduction of information technology encompasses all the group's businesses. We plan to complete the first stage of the project by the end of 2025. The company estimates total investment in the program's implementation at about 300 million rubles by 2025," Damate said in a press release.
The company is implementing projects to automate production and warehouse management systems, and developing sales planning functions. There are also plans to automate human resources processes, and roll out an enterprise resource management system based on 1C ERP.
The digital transformation in all aspects of Damate's business will result in increased transparency, faster responses to changes in demand and improvements in the quality of final products, the group said.
"In the course of the implementation of the digital transformation program, Damate is supporting Russian IT solutions, giving priority to domestic technology and introducing Russian software. The digitalization program includes a series of IT projects to digitalize work processes, reduce production costs and ensure further growth of production," Damate first deputy CEO for economics and finance Stanislav Varich said in the press release.
"The company's continued transition to new digital technologies will ensure that it promptly makes the most effective decisions in business," he said.
Damate is now carrying out 13 strategic projects in five regions that involve more than 340 IT professionals and experts in the company's business divisions. In the near future the company plans to launch automated warehouse management systems in its turkey production division in Rostov Region and production automation systems based on 1C software at its lamb processing plant in Cherkessk, Karachaevo-Cherkessia and an intensive turkey processing plant in Penza Region.
Damate has been introducing and using digital solutions, artificial intelligence, robots and Big Data since it was founded. For example, the sanitary inspection checkpoints at its turkey slaughterhouse and processing plant in Penza Region have an AI-based system to monitor hand sanitation and control access to production facilities, and its poultry houses have machine vision systems that monitor employees carrying out routine procedures round-the-clock.
