Del Monte-Shifting the IT Infrastructure to the Cloud
| Case Code: ITSY111 Case Length: 15 Pages Period: 2018-2019 Pub Date: 2020 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.500 Organization : Del Monte Foods Industry :Food & Beverage Countries : United States Themes: Management of Information Systems/ Systems Design/ Digital Strategy/Growth Strategy |
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Introduction
In April 2019, US-based Del Monte Foods (Del Monte) announced the various benefits it had derived from migrating existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to public cloud infrastructure, instead of switching over to an entirely new ERP system. It stated that it had cut its IT spending costs by 35% in less than four months, increased operating efficiencies, and reduced the time taken to roll out IT support to staff from weeks to less than an hour. Accenture’s Prasad Sankaran, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Cloud and Infrastructure who assisted the company in its journey to the cloud, said, “It really set them on a journey of analytics, automation and artificial intelligence.”
With a 132-year history, Del Monte was considered one of the pioneers in the US canning industry. However, market compulsions prompted the company to modernize its IT estate and boost its overall business agility...
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