The Client

The company began life as a roaster and supplier of coffee to the business to business market and quickly developed a reputation for quality and dependability. Under the guidance of Managing Director, Russell Bailie, they have expanded into the supply of commercial coffee machines, barista training, engineering support and ancillary products to wholesale coffee accounts – mostly artisan coffee shops, restaurants and some hotels, while continuing to be an artisan coffee roaster.

Bailies specialise in sourcing single origin and single estate coffees and aims for full traceability from origin, farm and farmer wherever possible. They also source and roast Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance and Organic coffees, and develop working relationships with ethical suppliers who have strong focus on sustainability for local farmers and growers.

However, roasting coffee is only one part of what they do. In addition, they provide barista training at the Bailies Academy and also provide a one-stop-shop for machines, engineer support and ancillary products.

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Requirements

The company has experienced further growth more recently and has expanded into the retail market through its online channels. The workforce has grown and Bailies moved to new, state of the art premises in 2014.

By 2013, Bailies recognised the need for an automated system for managing their field service engineers. Done on a case by case basis, call-outs and preventative maintenance were driven by customer contact. Russell Bailie decided that a system was needed to manage the engineers, so that their time would be used more effectively and customer service would improve.

A second catalyst for a new system was the fact that the company needed an integrated system that was fit for purpose for the company in its current state, whilst also requiring a scalable system, in order to support the needs of this fast growing business.

With two different but related sides to the business (roasting coffee and maintaining customer equipment), the challenge was to find a business solution that would meet the needs of both.

Requirements

Solution

“What we liked best about the Eagle solution was that it was one system that could solve the needs of two distinctly separate business units” enthuses Russell Bailie.

Bearing in mind all of these factors, Bailies embarked on the process of sourcing the software solution and company that would be the best fit to their needs. Profitsflow.com and the Eagle Field Service product were quickly identified as the preferred option for the company, and the initial consultation and implementation process commenced.

“The ability to provide a turnkey product that they had the expertise and readiness to customise, without compromising on future upgrade paths, was instrumental in our decision to go with Eagle and Profitsflow,” continues Bailie.

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Results

Since going live with Accounts and Order Processing as a first phase in December 2013, Bailies have incrementally rolled out the system across the Telesales, Field Sales, Field Service, Quality, Stock, Manufacturing and Purchasing departments.

The Field Service module, in particular, has benefited the company through the following ways.

  • Job and Engineer Scheduling
  • Job Information
  • Route Planning
  • Visibility
  • Stock Management
  • Customer, Engineer and Scheduler Satisfaction

Bailies are now a well-oiled machine. Engineers and customer have expressed much improved levels of satisfaction.

Bailies Coffee is a client of Exel Computer Systems’ Irish reseller Profitsflow.com, a leading provider of fully integrated enterprise software solutions to the manufacturing and field service sectors throughout the island of Ireland.

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