Where tradition meets innovation – Conditess

Taking exquisite baking to the highest level. This mission statement shapes how Conditess makes its 100 million cakes, pastries and cookies a year in a modern production facility in Haselünne in Lower Saxony. Whether customers are after fresh cakes, fine pastries and cookies, croissants, muffins or cake bases, all Conditess products are baked according to traditional methods and recipes. The family business has grown to become a trusted partner for food retailers and supplies companies such as Lidl with a wide range of products. To ensure that the large volumes of baked goods arrive at their destination fresh and on time, advanced, leading-edge production lines run around the clock, staffed by employees working a three-shift pattern. The innovative industrial bakery is eager to make its processes even more efficient in future and ensure ultra-precise personnel deployment at all times. Conditess chose the ATOSS Manufacturing Solution, as it meets all the requirements.

In particular, the company was won over by the rules-based duty plan, which automatically factors in laws, collective agreements, working time balances, absences and qualifications into planning and scheduling. 400 staff directly employed by the company are planned and managed using the software. This also applies to all temporary workers who are brought in to handle seasonal fluctuations. The project is currently being implemented on a remote basis due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all workshops and training being delivered via video conference. Full operation is set to begin middle of the year at the latest. Then all employees will use state-of-the-art time recording and access terminals to log their working time and will be involved in working time management processes via the Staff Center. Dispatchers are already looking forward to scheduling the workforce at the touch of the “magic button”, as the project team likes to call it. Conditess considers to introduce the mobile app in a next step, which will bring even greater flexibility into the workplace.

Source: ATOSS CUSTOMER CONDITESS / ATOSS Annual Report 2020