Oracle software now runs more than 300 Grupo Bimbo facilities, a director says. He gave no budget.
The $23 billion Mexican baking company is in a decade-long move to Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle's cloud ERP. Grupo Bimbo operates in 93 countries, according to the report, TechTarget reported.
Rob Dombkowski, senior director of business technology, told TechTarget the company put 56 U.S. bakeries and roughly 62 U.S. locations and distribution centres onto the system, probably in the last two years. The global total is more than 300 facilities, he said.
Before the project, half the company ran Release 11 of Oracle E-Business Suite, its older on-premises ERP, and the other half Release 12, Dombkowski said. He said the business spends more money on supply chain than on anything else.
Dombkowski says "there seems to be a gap between about 30 years old and 45 years old in the industry" in process knowledge. Each hand-off between generations, he said, is "like having a 40-year legacy system. You lose all the guys who really knew how the whole thing ran".
He sees "a huge opportunity to get cash out" of the supply chain. The report gives no cost, no savings figure and no end date for the project.
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