Cibao Meat Products Increases Cash Flow, Saves Time with Slingshot

Meet Cibao

Founded in 1969, Cibao Meat Products, Inc. manufactures Hispanic-styled sausages that are sold in club stores such as Costco, Sam's Club and BJ's, as well as through 450 other retail locations. The third generation to lead the company, Heinz Vieluf Jr, President of Cibao Meat Products, is a futurist who has always been fascinated by technology. A proponent of continuous improvement, whether it’s utilizing robotics, automation, or software, Heinz regularly evaluates emerging technologies that could improve his company’s processes.

“I’m always looking for ways to make our business run better and faster,” Heinz said. “Inefficiency can lead to exhaustion, overwork, and burnout — therefore, I champion and leverage technology for the benefit of the entire company.”

After meeting Infragistics CEO Dean Guida in his Vistage CEO group, Heinz wanted to know more about Slingshot, Dean’s digital workplace software. Impressed by Slingshot’s ability to instantly access data and gain efficiency, Heinz realized that the platform could help his company work smarter, not harder.

The Challenge

Since 2020, the company has been using Slack®* to communicate with team members, post reports, and exchange day-to-day business information. However, even with Slack Channels dedicated to specific business tasks, the company was still experiencing delays in tracking key metrics, which resulted in slower decision making.

We are saving potentially 120 hours a month by using Slingshot for our reporting and visualization,” Heinz explained. “Not only are we saving time, but we’re also saving money. After deploying Slingshot, we increased our cash flow by $40,000 a week on average because we can access our accounts receivable data quicker and react to any issues faster.”

Heinz Vieluf Jr, President of Cibao Meat Products, Inc.

The Solution

One of Heinz’s biggest challenges was viewing where clients were in the accounts receivable process. Running reports twice a month, taking time to understand the data and investigate was inefficient and time-consuming. Since implementing the Slingshot solution to replace this slow-moving process, Cibao Meat Products has experienced a significant savings of time as well as increased cash flow.

Heinz’s Slack Channel for accounts receivable reports has been archived and everything has been moved to Slingshot. His teams love the new reports because they receive key information faster and Slingshot dashboards are extremely useful in meetings to discuss the rhythm of the business. Monthly sales reports are no longer needed, which is a huge time saver.

“We are saving potentially 120 hours (15 days) a month by using Slingshot for our reporting and visualization,” Heinz explained. “Not only are we saving time, but we’re also saving money. After deploying Slingshot, we increased our cash flow by $40,000 a week on average because we can access our accounts receivable data quicker and react to any issues faster.”

Slingshot also helps Cibao Meat Products monitor and review its activity with top customers more rapidly, allowing them to quickly make data-driven decisions and implement new initiatives. The savings of time driven by Slingshot has allowed Heinz’s team to spend more time on customer relationship management, sales, retail support, and promotion.

Cibao Meat Products currently has three different apps and programs connected to Slingshot on the backend that are creating dashboards for Heinz, his maintenance department, transportation department, sales, purchasing, and financial. Rather than having data silos and software apps in different places, they can now bring everything together into one dashboard through the Slingshot solution.

Conclusion

Heinz is excited about the improvements that Slingshot has already achieved. As a champion of Slingshot, Heinz is in the process of onboarding all the different departments within the company to create Production-Based dashboards, Active Sales Accounts KPI’s, and a Factbird Operational Dashboard.

“We are extremely pleased with the accuracy of the Slingshot dashboards, which have made us more data driven,” Heinz said. “Our teams can immediately understand complex information, assess market changes, and use business intelligence to accelerate our decision making.”

* Slack is a registered trademark and service mark of Slack Technologies, Inc.

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