Case Studies

Fonterra


Fonterra is New Zealand’s largest enterprise with a turnover of $12 billion and is the world's largest exporter of dairy products, exporting 95 percent of New Zealand’s production and 24% by value of all New Zealand exports.

Their global supply chain encompasses farms, customers and consumers in 140 countries. Collecting over 13 billion litres of milk a year, they manufacture and market over 2 million tonnes of dairy products annually, making them the world's leader in large-scale milk procurement, processing and management.

Cavendish people performed two Programme Director roles for Fonterra:-

  1. Directed a Global Business Transformation programme involving the roll out of SAP R3 across all the international regional operating companies of Fonterra Co-Operative Group.

    Directed a large team of Fonterra and vendor personnel including IBM, Cap Gemini NZ, EDS, SAP, Sysdoc and others. The solution covered all the major SAP Modules including Quote to Cash, Procure to Payment, Project to Profit, Account to Report and HR.
    Programme scope also included all the non SAP major business processes as well.

    This was a $290 million project and is currently the largest single IT programme in New Zealand.
  2. Directed delivery of global Financial Consolidation System. The project team included a vendor consortium of Cap Gemini New Zealand, capiotech of Australia and Hyperion as well as Fonterra resources.
    Project included full system development lifecycle for consolidated group financial reporting using Hyperion Financial Management system for sixty three international companies.

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