HQ - USA

1000 employees

Revenue - $ 1 billion

Till now - For Food Ingredients market

Now - For Consumer Food products

Need to Expand, to become Agile & Flexible for new

Product Launches, for getting into new Markets
 Need for change in ACHs IS

Legacy systems (20-30 years old) - Cobbled

together with many point-to-point interfaces

Difficult for legacy systems to exchange data or

supply data needed for holistic view of firm
performance

Legacy Systems - Lacked functionality needed

for a consumer-branded company that grows by
acquiring companies
 2007 Implementing SAPs ERP system

SAP Modules Finance, Order Mgmt.,

Procure-to-Pay & Business Intelligence

ERP Applications Integrated

ACH CIO Break down functional silos

Single set of Transactional & Master data

 SAP Solution Specific to Consumer
Food Product Industry (based on
industry best practices)

Current Stage of company Between

Food Ingredients Business & Consumer
Food Product Business

So, SAP Installation Customization for

both functionalities
 Shortly after ERP went live, ACH decides to
focus only on Consumer Food Product
Business

Eliminated old customization & creation of

vanilla ERP system with zero
customization

2009 Additional SAP Functionality SAP

Manufacturing, SAP Product Lifecycle
Mgmt., SAP Planning, SAP Recipe Mgmt. etc
 Better Data For Better decisions (for all
managers)

ACH Develops first set of company-wide

KPIs(Key Performance Indicators)

Product Profitability Analysis & Reporting - Easy

Finished Goods Inventory - 20% reduction

New Product Initiation 75% less time

 Business
Challenge

Revise Siloed Legacy

Business Systems, Need to
Model Managemen change Business
Go for ERP t Model

Revise
Organizatio IS Business
Business
Processes n Solutions
Make Business
Process Efficient, Increase
Implement Support New Growth &
SAP Technology Business Profit
Manufacturing Processes,
, PLC Mgmt., Integrate
Planning, Application &
Recipe Mgmt. Data, Improve
Decision Making