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enterprise management planning that allowed two-dozen business divisions
to share the most efficient and effective. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
systems to support their individual business needs while offering senior
corporate finance officers a consolidated consistent “single global instance” of
the position of the entire company at any given time.
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American Foods Group
1. an Application Services case study
AMERICAN FOODS GROUP TRANSFORMS BUSINESS
SYSTEMS WITH HELP FROM LOGICALIS
Fulfilling customers’ needs is the name of the type of interface.” With a
game at American Foods Group. The simple act of very aggressive timeframe
listening to the customer has turned this company in place, they started
into one of the preferred providers of fresh and looking at options that
frozen meats to some of the largest retailers and could get the company
national food distributors. Headquartered in Green from five separate business systems to one
Bay, Wisconsin, their primary business is in the centralized system with a graphical user interface.
harvest and fabrication of cattle into boxed beef
and the sales and marketing of value-added beef American Foods began by looking at two options—
and brand products. Established in 1985 by current having the software vendor of the Windows
co-CEO Carl W. Kuehne, American Foods Group has applications create a centralized solution or taking
experienced success by being customer-focused, the current green-screen application from software
performance-driven, and relationship-oriented. vendor SSA and upgrading it to a new Windows-
Targeted partnerships and the desire to meet the based release with a graphical user interface.
customer’s expectations 100 percent of the time
have been the key to their continued success and “As we looked into these options, we found
growth. that neither were going to work out,” states
Bannow. Centralizing the data on the Windows
In July of 2005, American Foods Group and Rosen’s applications was not working. Next, they looked
Diversified, Inc. of Fairmont, Minnesota, announced at upgrading the SSA software and found that the
their plan to merge to create a new national food customizations they had made over the past seven
company that would be known as American Foods years would make it impossible to accomplish in
Group, LLC. The new expanded company has the given timeframe. Plus, the upgrade from SSA
operations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, was new and not currently in production.
Ohio, Nebraska, and Virginia. The merger provided
new opportunities and areas of growth for the Logicalis has been a preferred technology partner
company and their more than 3,000 associates. of American Foods Group for many years. During
a regular meeting, they shared their current
Merging companies creates challenges—especially needs with Logicalis, looking for suggestions.
when it comes to integrating information systems. “I introduced the idea of using transformation
The new company found itself with a mixture of software to front end their SSA application to give
technology applications and interfaces. Rosen them the desired look and feel they wanted,” states
was running a decentralized organization with a Tony Fischer, Logicalis Account Executive. Changing
separate Windows® solution at all four of their the existing screens to Windows would allow them
fresh meat plants. To get the desired business to keep their modifications to the software, provide
results, it was necessary to get everyone on a a quicker implementation time, and add access to
centralized system in a very short timeframe. The the application from the Internet. This idea took
main challenge was to agree on how to centralize hold, and American Foods Group started to pursue
and what system to use. ”American Foods had the this option. After carefully considering the complex
solutions that the company wanted to run,” states needs of this project, Logicalis put together a
Lou Ann Bannow, VP of IT. “But it was character- proposal that recommended the IBM Host Access
based (green screen), and the Rosen group was Transformation Server (HATS) to make-over their
used to Windows-based screens and required that application.
2. “We chose Logicalis based on our relationship
and because they were responsive and provided
thought leadership.”
Lou Ann Bannow, VP of IT, American Foods Group
“Our team met to discuss the client’s needs and Logicalis got to work ASAP on the project. As work
timeframe to ensure that the right solution was progressed, additional needs became apparent—
presented,” states Bob Verheyen, Logicalis VP of such as the need for single sign-on due to the
Service Operations. “We did not want to make any number of applications that were running in the
assumptions regarding what they needed.” The environment. Logicalis presented the concept of
HATS software makes 3270 and 5250 applications a portal to American Foods. Because the HATS
available as HTML through web browsers, while solution was built on the IBM WebSphere Portal
converting host screens to a web look and feel. framework, it was easy to address the single sign-
HATS is a rule-based transformation engine that on issue by using Portal and portlets to display
is a zero-footprint, zero-download, Web-to-host access to all applications from any browser.
solution. The power of HATS lies in its ability to
accurately recognize the components of host Additional functionality was added to the portal
screens and transform them in real time to a web by creating a customized sales bulletin board
interface according to a set of predefined rules. portlet for the sales department that would allow
HATS has macrosupport that allows you to provide the different facilities to stay informed on pricing
programmed navigation through multiple legacy changes and other market information. This
screens to improve the productivity and ease of use presented consistency to customers—regardless of
of host applications. HATS enables programmed which location they were working with.
access to a single host application or can integrate
screens from multiple host applications into a With a goal to have the solution fully integrated
single web interface. across all divisions of the company, American Foods
looks forward to the associated benefits it will
Logicalis’ project team created a proof-of-concept bring. “The key thing is centralizing the systems to
on five order entry screens so American Foods make our business more efficient,” states Bannow.
could make sure the solution would give them “Our sales team will be more competitive by having
the desired end results. “We initially considered access to the inventory at all the plants through
two partners to do this work. We chose Logicalis one system. We will reduce the amount of accounts
based on our relationship and because they were receivable work, and our customer service should
responsive and provided thought leadership. be second to none.” Logicalis looks forward to
Logicalis reacted much quicker than the other working with American Foods to transform its
partner and had the proof-of-concept created for business applications and helping them create
the project before the other partner could even put a competitive advantage in the food distribution
a proposal together,” says Bannow. Once approved, market.