Tomoe Dairy Processing strengthens supply chain with always-on solution
Since its foundation, Tomoe Dairy Processing, Japan, has been delivering safe and secure milk and dairy products to schools, homes and workplaces under strict hygiene control. Freshness is essential to the chilled products Tomoe manufactures and sells. That’s why it initiated a variety of procedures to provide the original taste of high-quality raw milk. Ninety percent of products are shipped on the day the order is received. The infrastructure of Tomoe’s ICT system, which supports a short lead time and a stable supply line, is the Stratus ftServer from Stratus Technologies, Maynard, Mass.
Headquartered in Koga City, Ibaraki, Tomoe Dairy Processing Co. Ltd. provides milk products and beverages for elementary and junior high school lunches. Tomoe’s history begins in 1956, when former president Toshio Nakata took over at Kanto Chikusan Kogyo K.K. That company, which processed and sold milk as well as meat and ham, was in financial difficulties, and Nakata re-started it as a dairy farm. The city of Koga is located at the western edge of Ibaraki, and it was difficult to do business within the prefecture from that area.