Moy Park’s Fleet Manager Mark Garner talks through the company’s transition to the hosted service FuelWorks from Merridale.
About Moy Park
Moy Park is a long-standing Merridale user which, like others, has made the transition to the hosted service FuelWorks. Moy Park’s facilities at its plant in Ashbourne include a poultry feed mill and the distribution of poultry feed to Moy Park hatcheries located in Ashbourne and Newark. Whilst the group’s main transport hub is located at a sister plant in Anwick, vehicles used for the transportation of live birds and poultry feed operate from separate bases at Ashbourne.
One of the UK’s top 15 food companies, Moy Park is Northern Ireland’s largest private sector business and one of Europe’s leading poultry producers. Other than its two primary poultry facilities in the UK, the other plant is located in Anwick, near Sleaford in Lincolnshire. A third plant in Grantham is dedicated to coated and ready-to-eat convenience foods.
To meet the requirements of its day-to-day business, Moy Park has installed an additional fuelling point at its site in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, assigned exclusively to the vehicles used for the collection of live birds. This installation incorporates a weighbridge, enabling the net weight of each consignment to be determined by measuring the difference in weight of the vehicle when its fully loaded and unladen with a full tank of diesel.
Before departing for a collection run, the vehicle is weighed with a full tank. When it returns fully loaded, it is refueled and then weighed again to authorize payment to the farmers.
Merridale pump dispensers and fuel management software are an integral part of the process. The Merridale systems are used mainly for cost accounting between profit centres, fuel stock control, and re-ordering. All the fuelling points are equipped with electronic contents monitoring, which enables central re-ordering.
Across the group, the Moy Park transport fleet comprises 155 vehicles, of which 70 are registered to use depot refuelling. Fuel usage is around 20,000 litres per week at Ashbourne and 38,000 litres per week at Anwick, amounting to an annual fuel bill of around £3 million.
Mark Garner summarises: “Transport between the different plants and our customers play an important role and our vehicles are on the road 24/7. Whilst we use our tracking service to monitor driver style and fuel economy, the Merridale system enables us to manage our in-house operational costs. This is a data driven process and we are relying on robust information technology systems on a day-to-day basis.”
