Cargill, a global food provider, developed a digital supply chain using SAP solutions to more efficiently transport food from farms to customers. This improved on-time delivery, increased order fulfillment rates, and saved up to 30% on training and 70% on integrating plant systems. The digital supply chain helps Cargill's mission of nourishing the world.

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How Do You Create a Digital
Supply Chain that Feeds the World?
Helping people get access to nourishing food worldwide inspired Cargill, Incorporated to develop processes for delivering trusted food
sources from field to table. Using SAP® solutions to transition to a digital supply chain, the global company has created trustworthy food
processes for partners and consumers.
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Nourishing the World with Efficient Digital
Supply Chain and Transportation Processes
Cargill, Incorporated
Minnetonka, Minnesota,
United States
www.cargill.com
Industry
Wholesale distribution
Products and Services
Food, agriculture, financial,
and industrial segments,
including energy trading,
crop and livestock, food
and beverage, health and
pharmaceutical, financial risk
management, raw materials,
electricity, and gas
Employees
150,000
Revenue
US$107.2 billion (2016)
SAP® Solutions
SAP® for Manufacturing solution
portfolio, SAP Transportation
Management application, and
SAP Manufacturing Integration
and Intelligence application
“SAP helps us meet our commitments to our customers in food and agriculture
around the world. Better managing production and transportation directly
improves the performance of our supply chains, benefiting our customers
as well as our businesses.”
Tim Jordheim, Solution Architect, SAP Applications, Cargill, Incorporated
One of the largest privately held U.S. corporations, Cargill is responsible for 25% of all U.S. grain exports.
Using manufacturing and transportation management solutions from SAP, Cargill was able to develop a
digitalized supply chain that supports its commitment to helping the world thrive.
Before: Challenges and Opportunities
• Meet the complex needs of Cargill’s deep and broad agricultural and food supply chains
• Improve production and supply chain processes with regard to on-time service levels and order
fulfillment performance
• Streamline global business and supply chain processes across lines of business, teams, and locations
Why SAP
• Implement the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence application to standardize integration of plant
systems and enhance learning and use of SAP solutions
• Enable employees in production facilities to easily provide accurate, timely information for the SAP
software system
• Standardize, simplify, and centralize transportation activities – from planning through freight payment and
cost management – with the SAP Transportation Management application
• Manage global operations, transportation, and logistics more efficiently
After: Value-Driven Results
• Higher customer satisfaction thanks to better on-time delivery and order fulfillment performance
• Greater efficiency and effectiveness in planning and execution of transportation and logistics functions
• Easier access and monitoring of operations and business data relevant to logistics processes
• Significant cost reduction in integrating plant systems and training plant employees
Up to 30%
Savings in training employees in
the plants
Up to 70%
Cost reduction in integrating
plant systems
Up to 30%
Improved productivity of SAP
software usage in the plants

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