NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor today
announced that BioMar, a leading sustainable aquaculture feed
producer, has chosen Columbus as a
strategic partner to implement its Infor M3 ERP system in the cloud
as Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage. Aiming to standardize and
streamline business processes globally with the latest digital
technologies, the solution will empower over 550 users in 13
countries to work more efficiently with a future-proof digital
platform by 2023.
Learn more about Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage:
https://www.infor.com/en-gb/products/cloudsuite-food-and-beverage
With EUR 1.5 billion in turnover,
sales in more than 80 countries and around-the-clock operations in
every major time zone, the Denmark-based BioMar Group's business is
typical of a large multinational, which presents challenges in
harmonizing processes.
"BioMar and Infor held a series of design-thinking sessions to
obtain a common understanding of BioMar's future strategies and
goals," says Johan Made, Infor's executive VP for northern and
eastern Europe. "Based on that
understanding, a number of digital capabilities were identified,
which were later used to form a digital roadmap going forward. The
implementation of Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage is the
foundation and a major step in BioMar's journey into the digital
future."
Operating in an aquaculture feed industry with many digital
opportunities and challenges, the group's digital roadmap and
business goals through 2023 require more streamlined business
processes and a more data-driven approach to decision-making.
BioMar has been using the Infor M3 ERP since 2013, but the
company felt it was not getting the full benefit of the powerful
ERP system as business processes were not well aligned across the
multinational group of companies. BioMar's CIO and global IT
director Thomas Mortensen shares the
plan for addressing this: "The case for this project is only 20%
about technology and 80% about business. With strong management
support and buy-in, we have adapted our governance structure by
appointing group-wide leaders as business process owners in each
business area to standardize and streamline processes. Combined
with a future-proof digital platform built around Infor CloudSuite
Food & Beverage, a corporate process template and strategic
advice from Columbus, this will
allow us to harmonize business processes across the group and drive
major efficiency gains."
Another challenge for BioMar is that its operations in each
country have been focusing on solving country-specific challenges
with individual modifications and customizations in Infor's ERP
system. Kent Enrico Petersen,
executive director of international M3 business at Columbus, sheds light on how Infor CloudSuite
Food & Beverage makes complex modifications directly in the
database and software a thing of the past: "Any additional
functionality needed will be deployed as add-ons and tools. As a
result, 90% of the ERP system will be standardized across the group
and only 10% will differ for localizations. By enabling the
harmonization of item numbers, bills of materials and other
parameters, this will drive data-driven decision making with vastly
improved data comparability and availability. BioMar is a
strategically important customer to us, and we see great potential
for adding substantial value with our shared vision for strategic
digital initiatives."
Looking ahead, BioMar aims to take digital leadership by
continuously investing in cutting-edge technologies with the Infor
CloudSuite platform as a basis to fulfil its ambitious all-cloud
and all-mobile 2020–2023 digital strategy. With plans to accelerate
sustainability initiatives and innovation in digital services for
customers as well, Mortensen highlights what support is needed
to succeed: "By 2023, we aim to be on the forefront of using
digital tools both internally and externally. This will create new
ongoing digital skills needs and we will be challenged to attract
and retain top talent. We also need a strategic partner that is
invested in our future success, shares our focus on deliverables
and can help us make the right strategic decisions every step of
the way. Given their experience as one of the top M3 consultant
organizations and global presence in the food and beverage
industry, it was only natural to team up with Columbus."
About BioMar
BioMar is an innovator in
high-performance aquaculture feed dedicated to doing its part in
creating a healthy and sustainable global aquaculture industry.
Currently, BioMar operates 16 feed factories across the globe in
Norway, Chile, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, France, Greece, Ecuador, Turkey, China, Australia and Costa
Rica. Worldwide, we supply feed to around 80 countries and
for more than 45 species. BioMar is wholly owned by the Danish
industrial group Schouw & Co, which is listed on the NASDAQ,
Copenhagen. Visit
www.biomar.com
About Columbus
Columbus is a global IT services
and consulting company with more than 2,000 employees serving
5,000+ customers worldwide. Columbus helps ambitious companies maximize,
transform, and futureproof their business digitally. Our innovative
solutions and services portfolio, 9 Doors to Digital Leadership®,
delivers end-to-end digital solutions that address the lifecycle
demands of the retail, distribution, food, and manufacturing
industries. We help companies run a sustainable and profitable
business. Columbus was founded in
1989 and is headquartered in Denmark with offices and partners all over the
world, delivering solutions and services locally—on a global scale.
Visit www.columbusglobal.com
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by
industry. Providing mission-critical enterprise applications to
67,000 customers in more than 175 countries, Infor software is
designed to deliver more value and less risk, with more sustainable
operational advantages. We empower our 17,000 employees to leverage
their deep industry expertise and use data-driven insights to
create, learn and adapt quickly to solve emerging business and
industry challenges. Infor is committed to providing our customers
with modern tools to transform their business and accelerate their
own path to innovation. To learn more, please visit
www.infor.com
For more information, please contact:
BioMar Group
Thomas Mortensen
CIO - Global IT Director
+45 52 15 76 14
tmo@biomar.com
Columbus A/S
Kent Enrico Petersen
Executive Director International M3 Business
+45 53 81 60 62
kent.enrico.petersen@columbusglobal.com
Infor
Richard Moore
Infor PR, EMEA
+44 7976 111 243
Richard.Moore@infor.com
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