FoodTech

RPM led the delivery of IT, Finance and Operations for a startup company funded by Australia’s largest listed conglomerate. We managed the design, outsourcing and delivery of a highly automated volume retail meat production facility spanning 21,000 sqm footprint , 12 continuous processing lines with 24/7 uptime serving over 2,300 retail outlets nationally. At peak performance, the benchmark throughput for the facility is 12,000 poultry per hour and 150,000 kg of red meat per day.

Our teams designed and delivered the business processes and technology solutions. This included systems and processes for Finance, HR and production, leveraging industry best practice from international experts in Europe and New Zealand.  We delivered all required technology solutions, including ERP, integrated industrial robotics systems, IT infrastructure, automated purchasing, ordering and dispatch with external suppliers and customers, production optimisation software, and End User Compute (EUC).

We also delivered ready to operate business processes and trained teams to run the operations, finance, IT and HR for business as usual. 

RPM successfully delivered on time, under budget. The facility remains the largest automated retail ready meat facility in the southern hemisphere, with world leading efficiency.

The solutions delivered enabled a major transformation to existing business operations. Retail-ready products in the new start-up facility for red meat and poultry optimised raw material yield to minimise wastage, allowed faster response to consumer demands and provided longer shelf life.  All products can be shipped direct to stores improving profitability, sustainability and scale via supply chain vertical integration. 

RPM led a large OpsTech global transformation programme for people, process and technology. Specialists from London, USA, South Africa and Dubai, led by RPM, collaborated seamlessly to deliver consecutive and parallel deployments for multiple business process and systems changes on time and under budget; 25 go lives for 16 business sites in challenging regions including: Tanzania, Ghana, DRC and Congo Brazzaville. 

We designed and delivered solutions that turned around revenue and operational effectiveness, while improving visibility and control. 

RPM deliveries allowed the global business to achieve consecutive annual EBITDA margin growth from 25% to 52% and successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange.

RPM was also responsible for full delivery management across; requirements, multi-vendor collaboration, systems configuration, rigorous testing and go-live handover to business users. We designed cost-effective solutions by smart use of existing technology adapted to new purposes. The digitisation programme won the Tower Exchange Operational Efficiency Initiative of the Year Award, and the Training Upskilling Award.

Technology outcomes
 

Scalable solutions included market leading Operations Management System (OMS), real time monitoring and control of assets for over 6800 towers.  Custom designs for Fuel Management, on/offline mobile apps for field engineers, process re-engineering, ERP, finance, HR, production manufacturing and control systems, custom integrations, automation, and BI/MI applications. 

Our teams worked closely with the global business units to ensure careful transition and decommission from legacy systems, successful people onboarding to new technology, and minimal disruption to existing critical SLA services for live customers. 

The systems implemented also gives complete and real-time visibility on the full fleet of towers, reduces maintenance costs and waste, and further improved the quality of network services performance for towers customers.

The new technology enabled tangible cost benefits immediately in the African operations businesses:

• Reduction in road accidents and 266,000 fewer kilometres driven per month
• Reduction in emissions through saving 38,000 litres of fuel per month
• Tower site outages reduced by 59%
• Time-to-fix reduced by 25% for first time fixes
• 50% reduction in time spent manually recording and documenting issues
• Average service visits per tower reduced from 6.2 per month to 1.5

RPM was the Business Change Lead for a multiyear global program to deliver business transformation through new front to back architecture for a major investment bank.  We provided process management expertise from design to implementation, supervising project teams through the stack from Front Office to Risk and Regulatory, to ensure a consistent architecture from front to back that met the objectives of the $250m project.

Milestones delivered during the overall program enabled business growth for entities in multiple regions through changes to products, Front Office, Operations and Finance systems.  Our expertise also supported the bank's finance, risk and regulatory reporting functions in meeting their goals efficiently under the new processes.

RPM was responsible for multiple business and IT projects and coordinating front to back deliveries, with particular focus on transforming rules and engines, finance data layers, ensuring delivery of multi-GAAP and regulatory reporting requirements.  We defined and delivered standard project approaches, ensuring consistent appropriate methodologies used. 

RPM has extensive experience advising, designing and implementing specialised financial systems including global platforms for banks (trading, settlement, back office operations), ERP/accounting and Treasury Management Systems (TMS). Our client industries include retail banks, investment banks, telecommunications, FMCG and FinTech, supporting project deliveries and risk management.

TMS support includes:

Advising the EMEA and APAC businesses of global TMS suppliers on Product, Implementations and Business Development, working with the teams to improve outcomes, closely supporting client projects and client relationships. 

Key delivery of significant business growth and client stabilisation in the EMEA region achieved through cleaner Sales processes, streamlined implementation and support teams, and building appropriate client centred culture. 

RPM provides guidance on financial systems and processes:

• Cash Management
• Payments
• Banking
• Accounting
• Financial Instruments
• Liquidity and other Risk Management
• Hedge Accounting
• Analytics
• Integration 

Platform & Architectures:

• SaaS
• Connectivity – banks and internal systems such as ERPs
• Security & Compliance
• Long term client support

Our team has significant expertise as Founders and leaders in community organizations, including:

• The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival
• Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH)
• The Victorian Council for Civil Liberties
• Ainos Education Center
• Comm Unity Services Plus
• The Reach Foundation
• Various community legal services
• Other Board appointments as Chairpersons, Executive and Non-Executive Directors, Advisory Boards and Governance Committees