Food & Beverage

A B Mauri/Fleischmann's Yeast

A yeast and bakery ingredients manufacturer selected Infor ERP LX to help optimize operational efficiencies. The company can now see costs at the most detailed level, get closer to just-in-time inventory control, and squeeze as much of the costs out of the system as possible without sacrificing customer service and quality.

AB World Foods

AB World Foods has a highly complex supply chain, driven in part by the nature of its globally sourced and distributed products as well as by the demands of growth and acquisition.With Infor SCM Demand Planning, the company cut costs while also improving service levels.

AppleGrove Restaurants

One of the oldest and largest franchisees of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar®, AppleGrove Restaurants replaced disjointed spreadsheet forecasting and financial reporting with Infor PM, resulting in accurate and timely reporting.

Basic American Foods

The market leader in dehydrated potato products selected Infor SCM Advanced Planner for supply chain planning and Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler for operational scheduling, enabling automatic generation of cost-optimized production plans, minimized changeover times, and scheduling of limited tank storage capacity, saving tremendous costs.

Better Baked Foods

Better Baked Foods produces high-quality, frozen products for its customers. The company has three manufacturing facilities, including two USDA Certified Manufacturing Facilities and one AIB Certified Manufacturing Facility. Better Baked Foods provides both brand and private label products to the retail, special channel, foodservice, and club markets. The company sought to streamline inventory control, facilitate consolidated data access and replace home grown, disparate systems. With the implementation of Infor10 ERP Business (SyteLine), Better Baked Foods increased sales by 38%, reduced IT spending by 16%, and integrated all disparate systems into one application.

Cadbury plc

The world’s largest confectionery company—manufactures and distributes candy, gum, and beverages—has achieved optimal data management with Infor PLM Optiva, reducing costs and time to market while adhering to government compliance. The company takes advantage of Optiva’s technical data management system to improve collaboration, both internally and externally, and gain visibility into R&D efforts at every location making data transparent and useful.

Cumberland Packing Corp.

The manufacturer of Sweet'N Low® sugar substitute had a 20-year-old custom-built system that had no support for production processes and had limited general ledger functionality. Infor ERP Adage was up and running in five months and has helped reduce inventory by 15 percent, or $1.5 million.

Grimmway Farms

When a top producer of conventional and organic fruits and vegetables migrated from Infor MP2 to Infor10 EAM, the company streamlined and automated many processes throughout its departments. With the fully integrated system, the company can easily track and efficiently manage work order history, assets, costs, and its preventive maintenance program. The company also cut report creation time from 1 day to about 30 minutes.

Group Carrefour

A leading French distribution group and the world’s second-largest retailer chose Infor EAM Enterprise Edition to integrate work processes spanning sub-departments across many locations. The company now automatically updates inventory requirements and optimizes inventory costs by reducing maintenance and labor costs.

Heinz Frozen Food Co.

A division of the global food giant saw 11% efficiency improvements, 5% to 10% maintenance cost reductions, and world-class levels of maintenance inventory management after implementing Infor10 EAM and lean principles.

Keystone Foods

The company providing processing, distributing, and logistics and supply-chain services for the proteins industry uses Infor10 EAM in the cloud to provide real-time data in a single database for all users, and to minimize IT costs. Keystone Foods sees annual savings from payroll costs and software and service costs, and it can easily track its work orders that number more than a million. The company has also gained maximum flexibility to configure the software, easily creating custom work orders to minimize involvement of maintenance staff, and creating cross-reference reports to follow inventory in all its stores and plants.

Meyn Food Processing Technology

Meyn Food Processing Technology maximized efficiency and augmented the power of Infor Baan with InforBarcode, a data collection solution that takes ease of use to new level in Infor Baan and ERP LN products, and adds a broad range of powerful features that help any company using Baan or ERP LN to maximize their investment. The InforBarcode component design mirrors a company’s unique business processes with the ability to combine multiple Baan transactions into a single step, which simplifies day-to-day tasks and increases job performance and satisfaction—all without customizing Baan sources. The premier data collection solution in the Infor Baan arena, InforBarcode is a must for any company.

Organic Valley Family of Farms

One of the leading US organic brands chose Infor ERP Adage, Infor SCM Advanced Planner, and Infor SCM Advanced Scheduler to meet the company’s extraordinary planning challenges. Resulting efficiencies were a slowing of the workforce growth rate while sustaining overall revenue growth, and a 37% increase in sales per employee.

PepsiCo Italia

PepsiCo Beverages Italia needed an information management system to manage and track assets that it loans at no cost to clients, particularly coolers and fountains. By implementing Infor EAM, PepsiCo Italia increased productivity and managerial control of all activities. It also reduced errors, achieved better accountability for assets, and improved data collection for better support of decision-making.

Reser's Fine Foods

A manufacturer and distributor of refrigerated food products is using Infor SCM Transportation Management SHIPLOGIX for load building and routing of outbound freight. The company has seen significant results in streamlining the outbound routing process.

Rich Products Corporation

A founder of the non-dairy segment of the frozen food industry and a supplier to the food service, in-store bakery, and retail marketplaces chose Infor10 PLM Process (Optiva), enabling the company to make informed decisions to continue with development or reallocate resources to focus on new projects with a higher potential for success.

Warsteiner Brewery

On average, every German drinks 117 liters of beer a year. Warsteiner Brewery stays first at quenching Germans’ thirst, producing 6.1 million hectoliters (161 million gallons) each year in state-of-the-art production facilities. To do so successfully, Warsteiner takes advantage of Infor Supply Chain Planning (SCM) Advanced Scheduling, which is specifically tailored to the needs of the food, beverage and luxury food industries. It’s particularly well-suited to the complex beer-making process in the way that it can map the handling of mixed drinks and problems related to empty packaging.

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