Sausage Manufacturer Experiences 100% Increase in Demand
The Challenge
The year 2020 created unprecedented challenges for a sausage manufacturer, who experienced a 100% decline in sales of stadium sausages while seeing an 100% increase in demand in packaged ready-to-eat sausage products sold in grocery stores. Despite having recently installed a new $7 million processing line, they were not seeing the expected benefits of increased capacity. The client was losing business across both product offerings and
turned to DB&A for help.Â
About the Client
A sausage manufacturer with two product lines, one selling sausage products to stadiums and event venues while also packaging sausage products for grocery store sales.
Results Snapshot
DB&A Delivered
- Annual cost savings of $6,313,650 — $4.5 million more than the original projection
- Actual Out of Pocket: $524,185
- Actual Payback: 25 weeks
- 17% reduction in sanitation times
- 24.7% reduction in bottleneck downtime
- Average of 66 minutes per day of production time regained
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