American Crystal Sugar Company
Location
Moorhead, Minnesota USA
Solution
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Industry
Food and Beverage
American Crystal Sugar Case Study by JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
The Company: About American Crystal Sugar Company
Located in Moorhead Minnesota, American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative with over one billion in sales that specializes in sugar and sugar-based products and by-products. As the largest beet sugar producer in the United States, American Crystal utilizes innovative farming practices, low-cost production methods, and sales and marketing leadership to produce about 20% of America’s highest quality sugar.
The Situation: Control Variable Costs
Challenges
- Maximize shareholder profit
- Control variable costs, such as overtime
- Manage nonproductive time
The Solution: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP
The Benefits: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ERP Implementation Benefits
- Utilized Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management and Oracle support tools to allow American Crystal Sugar Company to minimize costs
- Optimized system availability for 24×7 operations
- Leveraged Oracle’s support tools to plan updates at the appropriate time for the business and create a more efficient migration process
- Utilized Oracle’s Global Support Center, which provides direct contact to analysts and computer-to-computer connections, giving a more efficient and superior level of service
- Reduced downtime during system upgrades
- Supported seasonal campaigns by providing the ability to hire batches of employees during the rehiring process each fall
- Utilized Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne development tools to quickly generate applications with minimal coding
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