Across 16 food manufacturing facilities producing oils, sauces, and dressings, SAP's rigid structure creates maintenance bottlenecks that delay production and risk food safety compliance.
Schedule Ventura Foods SAP Demo Now
Ventura Foods operates 16 manufacturing facilities across the US and Canada, producing shortenings, oils, margarines, dressings, sauces, and soup bases for foodservice and processing. With SAP handling back-office operations but no dedicated CMMS, plant teams struggle with reactive maintenance on critical equipment like mixers, fillers, and packaging lines.
Food plant maintenance teams at facilities like Ontario, CA and Saginaw, TX waste hours logging work orders in SAP's complex interface instead of fixing breakdowns on production lines. This delays repairs on high-speed fillers and ovens, causing costly downtime during peak sauce and oil production. Reactive firefighting replaces proactive PM, risking FDA compliance in perishable goods manufacturing.
SAP lacks native mobile apps, forcing Ventura's technicians in remote sites like Albert Lea, MN or Opelousas, LA to return to desks for updates, slowing response to equipment alerts. In fast-paced food processing, this means longer outages for refrigeration units and mixers, inflating scrap rates on margarines and dressings. Multi-facility visibility is impossible without custom reports.
Rigid SAP calendars don't adapt to variable production shifts across Ventura's plants, leading to overdue maintenance on sanitary equipment and hygiene risks. Without real-time asset history, teams repeat failures on pumps and conveyors, disrupting supply to restaurants and processors. Enterprise-scale reporting drowns actionable insights in data overload.