California provides 80% of the world’s almond supply, but these volumes have to be able to be transported around the world.
As the pandemic disrupted the supply chain at Blue Diamond Growers, the organization realized its supply chain system was limited in capabilities. With SAP, Blue Diamond Growers developed a digital supply chain solution. In addition to the usual threats, being droughts, wildfires, and the weather, California almond growers had to contend with wild fluctuations in supply and demand while transportation resources became limited, unreliable and expensive.
Blue Diamond’s processes, systems, and documents used for managing the cooperative’s $300-million supply chain and logistics functions were limited by a number of manual processes. With workers dependent on a disjointed network, the conditions created by the pandemic made it all but impossible to consistently satisfy demand.
Since 2014, though, Blue Diamond had been working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) software leader SAP. Now, the cooperative turned to the German multinational to utilize its transportation management, logistics, business planning, analytics cloud, and other capabilities to build a world-class supply chain solution.
The development of a state-of-art supply chain earned Blue Diamond Growers the distinction as a finalist at the 2023 SAP Innovation Awards, a yearly ceremony honoring organizations using SAP products to craft meaningful change.
Source: cio.com