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Fresh Solutions for Fresh Produce

SAP

Technology Category	Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries	Agriculture
Applicable Functions	Procurement
Challenge	Dole processes 48,000 purchase orders each year from farmers across several countries and regions. In order to shorten the PO process, Dole needed to centralize all data and standardize and automate the tools, information, and practices used to manage procurement processes across the region, to save precious time and money. The company looked to SAP to streamline the entire procure-to-pay process. Read More
About Customer	Dole Food Company is an American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 74,300 full-time and seasonal employees who ar Read More
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Solution	Dole discovered that the Ariba Procure-to-Pay solution could more effectively manage all of their spendings for business units across Central and South America with built-in flexibility to adapt to the unique environment and culture of suppliers in each country. Software Components - Ariba Procure-to-Pay solution Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Delivery Time, Production Efficiency, Total Setup Time, Procurement Process Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Agriculture

Applicable Functions

Procurement

Challenge

Dole processes 48,000 purchase orders each year from farmers across several countries and regions. In order to shorten the PO process, Dole needed to centralize all data and standardize and automate the tools, information, and practices used to manage procurement processes across the region, to save precious time and money. The company looked to SAP to streamline the entire procure-to-pay process.

About Customer

Dole Food Company is an American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California. The company is the largest producer of fruits and vegetables in the world, operating with 74,300 full-time and seasonal employees who ar

Customer Name

Dole Food

Solution

Dole discovered that the Ariba Procure-to-Pay solution could more effectively manage all of their spendings for business units across Central and South America with built-in flexibility to adapt to the unique environment and culture of suppliers in each country. Software Components - Ariba Procure-to-Pay solution

Data Collected

Delivery Time, Production Efficiency, Total Setup Time, Procurement Process

Impact #1	[Data Management - Data Analysis] Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to enable more robust analysis and lower costs.
Impact #2	[Data Management - Data Collection] Cloud solutions enable aggregation of purchase orders straight from farmers in the fields.
Impact #3	[Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market] Programming time, production time, and installation time are shortened during the introduction of new products.

Impact #1

[Data Management - Data Analysis]
Cloud solutions enable aggregation of 'big data' to enable more robust analysis and lower costs.

Impact #2

[Data Management - Data Collection]
Cloud solutions enable aggregation of purchase orders straight from farmers in the fields.

Impact #3

[Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market]
Programming time, production time, and installation time are shortened during the introduction of new products.

Benefit #1	Where it used to take 16 days to process a single purchase order, now hours later, the information has been processed, stored and is up-to-date, ready for top-level access.

Benefit #1

Where it used to take 16 days to process a single purchase order, now hours later, the information has been processed, stored and is up-to-date, ready for top-level access.

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Fresh Solutions for Fresh Produce

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