ACH Food Companies - Informatica Customer Success Story

A leader in providing specialty food to North America's consumer and industrial markets, ACH Food Companies has doubled its sales in just over a decade by acquiring other established food companies and brands

“With Informatica we are able to reduce the time taken to integrate the legacy systems from an acquired organization from up to nine months to as little as four months.”

Donnie Steward

CIO, ACH Food Companies

Business Need

Accelerate time to value from business acquisitions.
Close the gap between business and IT, allowing IT to respond with greater agility to the needs of the business.

Support transition from a commodity food manufacturer to a company with a strategic focus on brands.

Challenges

Data from acquired businesses was bolted onto the legacy infrastructure as a separate silo.
Requirement to accelerate deployment of large-scale SAP ERP implementation.
Provide real-time, holistic, accurate view of enterprise-wide data.

Development based on point-to-point interfaces, and documentation was noticeable by its absence.
Reduce time-to-value from acquisitions.

Solutions & Results

Saved $3 million by reducing the SAP data migration program from six months to three months.
Helped manage credit limits and negotiate more profitable contracts with customers.
Increased confidence in information led to faster, enhanced decision making.

Reduced acquisition data integration time from nine to four months, creating a faster route to value from acquisitions.
Delivered a single measure of customer profitability across five business units.
Closed the gap between business needs and IT delivery.