Thanks to the Jollibee Commissary System, ensuring the manufacture and distribution of safe and high- quality food in the most cost-efficient manner is made possible. There are three Commissary System sites: Santolan, Pasig City; Mandaue City, Cebu; and the central site in Canlubang, Laguna. The System, which operates 2417, manages Jollibee's total supply chain process. The Jollibee Pasig City commissary has production lines for breads and sauces, and is the distribution center for North Manila and North Luzon.
In 1996, Jollibee opened the Vismin Foods Corporation (VFC) in Mandaue City, Cebu to service the Visayas andMindanao areas. VFC has its own bread, pie, sauce, and frozen patty lines. The Laguna commissary is the biggest and most advanced in the country and among Asia's best. Operated by Zenith Foods Corporation (ZFC), a full subsidiary of Jollibee, the newest commissary is on a 6-hectare property in the Calmelray Industrial Park. Aided by custom-made mechanized equipment, the production lines are for the marinated Chicken Joy, frozen patties and pies, breads, sauces, hotdogs and other meat products, and dry blended goods. ZFC can service over 800 Jollibee and Greenwich stores.
The chicken marination line can produce as many as 150,000 pieces a day while about 480,000 hamburger patties a day is turned out by the frozen patty line. The breadline is designed to match the volume output of patties, i. e. also about 480,000 pieces a day.
The pie line can produce as much as 157,000 pocket pies in a 20-hour operating day. Currently, pies are exported to Jollibee stores in Hong Kong, Guam, Saipan, Brunei, and the USA. Various sauce products are processed in the ZFC sauceline including those for the Jollibee bestsellers, spaghetti and palabok.A professionally staffed Technical Services Team supports the maintenance of an internationally accepted quality management system that further ensures the quality and safety of the commissary manufactured food products. High caliber teams from Engineering, Human Resources, Information Management, Finance and Accounting likewise provide support to the Manufacturing and Logistics operations of the Commissary. Proof of Jollibee's adherence to high quality standards is the various awards it garnered for the commissaries: in 1997, the commissary in Pasig earned theOutstanding Industrial Plant in the National Capital Region from the Laguna Lake Development Authority and the Most Improved Industry awarded by the Sagip Pasig Movement while Commissary Plant Engineer Romy P.
Fernandez was awarded as one of the Top Ten Most Outstanding Pollution Control Officers of the Philippines. certification by the S6S (Societe' Generale Surveillance) Yarsely, an international certification body. 2004 is a banner year for Vismin Foods Corporation (VFC) who has been assessed and certified by the National Meat Inspection Commission of theDepartment of Agriculture, to have fully met the requirements and standards of Good Manufacturing Practice, reinforcing the commissarys "AAA" accreditation granted by the same agency. FSC Standards Jollibee's phenomenal growth owes much to its strict and committed adherence to high standards as symbolized by "F. S. C.
": Food (F) served to the public must meet the company's excellence standards or it will not be served at all; the Service (S) must be fast and courteous; and Cleanliness (C), from kitchen to utensils, must always be maintained. Jollibee is proud of its employees who carry out their Jobs.Jollibee recognizes them by providing the highest compensation and benefits packages in the fastfood industry, and modern and comprehensive training programs. Managers are regularly updated on the latest store operations systems, people-oriented management skills, among others.
Service crews are trained on various store stations and food-service innovations. Jollibee also offers career opportunities for qualified and exceptional crew members to further their food- service careers as managers. Store operations are ably supported by professionals who are experts in Marketing, Computer Management and Engineering.
