Located in Rosyth, Scotland, the company employs nearly 1,000 people and functions 363 days a year. Mowi produces esteemed Mowi-brand salmon while also providing major UK retailers with own-label fresh, smoked, ready-to-cook, and deli products.
As part of its company-wide digitisation initiative, Mowi has remarkably reduced its use of paper records by 90% with the implementation of the mobile-first workplace operations platform, SafetyCulture. This significant change positions Mowi to aim for near-paperless operations in the future.
Moreover, digitisation has streamlined processes and bolstered capacity, enabling the company to more than double its product and quality audits from 3,000 to over 7,000 every month, with a new audit or check originating every five minutes.
With digital records securely stored within the SafetyCulture platform, Mowi has not only saved valuable time for employees but also enhanced traceability. This development accelerates information retrieval to mere minutes, making necessary evidence readily available to customers and auditors.
Additionally, the digitisation allows Mowi’s management team access to real-time frontline data that was previously concealed. This transparency aids in identifying trends and fosters continuous improvement within the organization.
For the past four years, Mowi Consumer Products UK has upheld an AA+ accreditation from the Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard, the highest accolade awarded to food packaging businesses.
According to Mowi Consumer Products UK’s senior quality manager, David Bett: “We’ve found so many functional benefits from digitising our processes. But the real impact has come from the additional confidence of being able to prove our processes to customers and auditors, and show them the resulting data. That’s really given us an extra competitive advantage and is a contributing factor to retaining our accreditation.”
Anna Giusti, who played a crucial role in implementing the technology as a production operator, collaborated with SafetyCulture’s team to develop new functionality and reporting capabilities.
Giusti noted: “In Rosyth, we’re very much a centre of excellence. The company is full of passionate people who invest their time and careers in improving processes, and we’re reaping the benefits of that.
“And the digitisation programme has also enabled me to progress in my career to become a business data analyst, as I’m helping the business become more efficient.”
SafetyCulture, a global technology company, supports UK customers from its Manchester office. Its platform serves over 25,000 UK businesses, facilitating more than a billion checks annually, delivering approximately 85,000 lessons each day, and guiding millions of corrective actions.
Mowi Consumer Products UK is a subsidiary of Norway-headquartered Mowi ASA, the largest producer of sustainable farm-raised seafood globally, operating in 25 countries to meet a substantial portion of the world’s demand for high-quality seafood.
