Customer story: Cargill
Cargill is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. Cargill’s businesses are organized around five major segments: Agriculture Services, Food Ingredients and Applications, Origination and Processing, Risk Management and Financial, and Industrial.
Within Cargill ERP/business-templates exist that are based on SAP-software and that are rolled out over all the Cargill business units. The Cargill organization benefits in various ways from its digital transformation by implementing SAP. Their main objectives are:
- Ready for the Future: By replacing legacy systems with the SAP solution comprising of best processes, organization and system, Cargill becomes ready for the future.
- Standardization: One system for all implies easier process integration, data sharing & reporting within the businesses, platform and holding.
- Business Process and Business Analysis Improvement: “Learn from each other” – sharing best practices, Dimension based analysis, easier reporting tools & “one source of the truth”.
- Support Improvement: Support coordinated centrally, Potential issues are understood worldwide and all sites benefit from their solutions
- Cost savings; significant cost savings potential through efficiency and effectiveness in both operations and support.
Role of Tarlunt
From their roles Tarlunt was responsible for the overall planning and leading the transformations. Tarlunt fulfilled the roles of program management and lead expert commercials.
Approach Taken
One globalized way of working, Commitment to new business concepts, Global data management.
- Global template build and govern (complex system landscape SAP, multiple IT packages).
- Parallel regional Deployments of the global template. Locations implemented : USA, Hungary, Indonesia, Poland, South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Rumania, Switzerland, India, Russia.
- Migrate legacy systems into new global system., Organizational Change strategy,
- Team size: 150 FTE / onshore and offshore
Result
One globalized way of working, Commitment to new business concepts, Global data management.
Global standardization for Business Processes; Sales & Distribution (Ordering, Distribution, Shipping, invoicing), Planning & Manufacturing (Manufacturing, Operations / Supply Chain), Warehouse Management, Procurement, Finance & Control.
