Modernize to increase production efficiency

In recent years, Saigon Tobacco Company has continuously invested in modern machinery and equipment to improve production and business efficiency, product quality and labor productivity. This is an important solution to help company grow in the context of increasingly fierce competition.

In the period before 2012, Saigon Tobacco Company had many equipment, machines and spare parts that had been put into use for a long time, don’t meet production demand as well as product quality assurance. In order to increase production capacity, the Board of Directors of company has directed the departments in the bidding for investment projects of machinery lines and high-capacity and modern equipment. For example, a 6 ton / h fiber processing line, a high-speed cigarette and bagging line, 10,000 cigarettes / minute, etc. can meet the growing demand for domestic and export tobacco consumption. ; bidding for dust collection system – central fiber supply for rolling – joining machines and many bidding projects for investment in procurement of other machines and equipment for better production.

Since 2014, the company has cooperated with MobiFone to implement the mSales Sales Management Program to manage the distribution channel system as well as supervise the sales staff. The application of informatics technology to market development has helped company manage its supervisory and sales staff more accurately and effectively.

Company also implements the Histaff project – a solution for managing human resources, time attendance by magnetic stripe cards, salary calculation by computer software. This application has brought high efficiency, help timekeeping quickly and accurately; managing labor more scientifically, reducing personnel involved in this work, benefiting hundreds of millions of dong.

At the same time, Company put informatics solutions into archives and emulation management. Thanks to the use of management software, these tasks have been increasingly improved, synchronized and systematic, greatly reducing the time for searching information, statistics and collating data.

Saigon Tobacco Company actively implements the movement of saving raw materials and materials with the goal of “reducing 2% of production costs, 5 – 10% of administrative costs, contributing to the company to strive to complete comprehensively the plan and the slogan of” saving from very small things will bring great results “has received enthusiastic response from officials and employees. In order to save costs and improve energy efficiency, company has been implementing many practical solutions: Installing inverters for most high-capacity devices; utilize condensed water at some stages of the fiber processing process; recovery and reuse of shredded yarn; replace existing lights with energy-saving lamps for areas of the company; equipped with a thermal camera and regularly check for heat loss in the yarn workshop.

Company cooperates more closely with raw material supplying companies such as Ngan Son Company, Tobacco Economics Institute and Hoa Viet Company in checking material quality, supervising the stage of mixing, separating stems and process. At the same time, to increase the use of materials of domestic suppliers of equal or better quality at competitive prices, cheaper than previously imported materials, etc.

Thanks to those efforts, the company’s production and business results in the period of 2014 – 2018 have grown significantly; highlights such as: Total consumption in 2018 was estimated at 1,446.68 million bags, up 15.2% compared to 2014. At the same time, meeting strict quality requirements for domestic and domestic and export products.

As a result, the investment in machinery and equipment of Saigon Tobacco Company has brought about an increase in labor productivity, the average production output of more than 100 million packs / month, meeting consumption demand.

Productivity and Quality Office