Sustainability Feeding the Future
Nutreco is a leading global animal nutrition company leveraging scientific and technological expertise to support the production of healthy protein to feed our growing population. As dietary needs and behaviors evolve, Nutreco is committed to feeding the future in a sustainable way.
The Nutreco team is hyper-aware of the importance of their work, at every level. Speaking of the day-to-day work his team does, Chief Information Officer Erik Beckers says, “We’re never just solving an incident ticket. We’re helping a farmer nourish their community.” However, unpredictability and a heavy administrative load can burden both the team and their customers as they strive toward their shared vision of a healthy global community.
Nutreco partnered with Infor to introduce more efficiency and certainty into their own operations, enabling them to do the same for their customers. The relationship has made for better demand forecasting, optimized production processes, and massively cut down on wasted work and resources.
“With Infor,” Beckers says, “we know our business function is covered.”
At a glance
Headquarters
Amersfoort, NetherlandsIndustry
Product Offering
Animal nutrition
Infor Product
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Challenges
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Uncertainty across value chain
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Change Management
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Global compliance variability
The Opportunity
By the nature of their business, Nutreco faces several challenges that make streamlining operations difficult. Internally, the team must navigate the organizational change management that comes with regular mergers and acquisitions. There are also external factors to contend with: economic volatility, shifts in the diet of whole populations, and ever-changing international sustainability compliance requirements create uncertainty across the value chain, making product development hard to standardize. As Beckers puts it, “Nutreco’s bill of materials is never fixed.
”Nutreco may not be able to eliminate uncertainty, but with the right tools, they can navigate it efficiently for the 40+ countries they serve. The Nutreco team saw an opportunity to use cloud-based technology to optimize feed cycles, develop more adaptable business processes, and support the sustainable production of healthy protein in the long term.
Infor’s food and beverage ERP solution, powered by AWS cloud services, offered both the industry specificity and reliable infrastructure that Nutreco needed to achieve their goals. Given the global nature of Nutreco’s business, the team opted for a multitenant deployment, in which multiple instances of the application operate in a shared environment. This offering is ideal for an organization like Nutreco, which requires quick and easy insight into a broad range of customers in order to maintain efficient service.
With Infor, we know we can adapt to new releases or onboard a new team in weeks or months, not years.
Chief Information Officer
The Solution
Deploying Infor’s ERP solution marked a major step toward more efficient, sustainable operations at Nutreco. On the production side, more effective demand forecasting based on animal life cycles allowed for minimal waste and precise feeding of livestock, fish, and shrimp.
The ERP also reduced wasted time and resources internally. Given their large size, Nutreco’s team has found it easier and quicker to adapt to Infor’s frequent releases of targeted features rather than the total system updates they were accustomed to with other ERP solutions. “With Infor, we know we can adapt to new releases or onboard a new team in weeks or months, not years,” Beckers says.
With Infor’s custom dashboards, the team has also been able to track financials and inventory, and easily identify and absorb changes in global compliance policy.For Nutreco’s leaders, the launch of the multitenant ERP felt like the start of a partnership rather than the end of a process.“They don’t launch and leave,” Beckers says. “It’s a true collaboration and strategic relationship rooted in our goals.”
Solutions
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More precise demand forecasting
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Faster onboarding
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Easy identification of global compliance changes
Recap
Through industry-specific, cloud-based ERP, Nutreco has been able to reduce unnecessary complexity and work more efficiently toward their mission of sustainably feeding the future. The team sees further digitalization on the horizon, including leveraging AI to help farmers generate more protein with fewer raw materials and eliminate the need for antibiotics in feed cycles.
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