Cargill Inc. Extends Enterprise Software Agreement With J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards Software Used in Cargill Operations Worldwide
DENVER, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC), a leading provider of agile e-business software solutions, today announced that it has extended its software agreement with Cargill Inc. to include 10 countries throughout Latin America.
Cargill is standardizing its operations on J.D. Edwards' OneWorld(TM) e-business enterprise software to gain centralized control over information assets across 17 different lines of business to increase operational efficiency. Today's news follows the recent announcement that Cargill will globally deploy J.D. Edwards' E-Procurement solution, powered by Ariba, enabling employees in more than 1,000 locations to order goods and services. (See news release dated 2/2/00.)
"J.D. Edwards and Cargill have developed an excellent business relationship over the past five years and J.D. Edwards has demonstrated that it knows how to support the needs of a large, complex, multi-national, multi-lingual organization," said Lloyd Taylor, CIO of Cargill. "We are using the technology to become better at our core competencies around the world."
"By standardizing on OneWorld, we can rearrange the silos of information that have hindered optimization of our business operations," said Wilson Loesch, Cargill's Latin American IT project leader. "With a common system we will be able to better track supply-chain functions such as manufacturing and distribution schedules, transportation management, order status or customer and supplier information." Prior to purchasing the J.D. Edwards solution, Cargill used a variety of disparate software systems in each Latin American business unit.
Cargill currently uses J.D. Edwards financials software in all of its business units. In partnership with Andersen Consulting and Argentina-based Application Software (ASSA), Cargill will implement J.D. Edwards' full OneWorld enterprise solution including manufacturing, logistics/distribution, customer service management and financial e suites. The entire 10-country Latin America project is expected to be complete in 2001 and includes sites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. |
