In my role as General Manager of Sicpa New Zealand Ltd we engaged with Mike to manage our networks as well as work on a number of customer specific initiatives.
Some of the projects were:
- Installing Mail Rules, a software Mike developed to send large files via e-mail at a time when this was impossible.
- Set up data communication between our labs and an international flexible packaging company.
- This project improved cost reduction for both ourselves and our customer in excess of $1,000,000 pa collectively.
- Our customer was awarded as being the best international packaging supplier by a Major US confectionery manufacturer as a result of this project.
- We also secured more business supplying this technology to their Cigarette packaging business.
- Installation of Cognos data reporting software to extract data from our BPCS platform to make our international management reporting more effective.
- Set-up mobile laptops so our tech service team had remote access to our network.
- This gave our technicians access to our formulas and a unique Access database that could calculate ink volumes on cans so there was no downtime due to order volumes being underestimated by the Can company staff and also reduce excess consignment stock on site.
Also, Mike developed a remote-control platform for another can customer whereby the plant manager could view and control the production line remotely live as well as see his warehouse goods & volumes.
We had a relationship with Mike for more than 10 years, and I now use Networks to manage my own businesses website as Mike and I have kept in contact all this time, in fact its been close to a 30year relationship.
Mike’s ability to understand complex business challenges and develop unique solutions to ensure all parties security and data integrity was paramount in our ability to add such enormous value-added services to what would be considered a commodity product (i.e: Printing Ink) a major asset in our business growth.
Please Note: SICPA is a Swiss based Security Inks manufacturer for Bank Notes (producing over 100 Billion banknotes in 90 countries) & Security documents like Passports, Government Bonds etc. At the time they were also one of the top 10 global suppliers of printing ink to the commercial & packaging sector.
