Harris Ranch Beef Production Sizzles With Infor SCM Products

Harris Ranch, founded in the 1930s in California’s San Joaquin Valley, has grown and expanded into the west’s most progressive, innovative, and quality conscious beef producer. They’ve built a uniquely integrated beef production system where cattle are exclusively sourced, fed, and humanely processed by the company in order to raise beef that’s as pure and great tasting as nature intended. Harris Ranch is now the largest cattle feeder, beef processor, and beef marketer in California and also one of the largest family-owned agribusinesses in the nation, with annual sales in excess of $400 million. Their products are distributed to retail and foodservice markets in the US and around the globe, and are showcased at the legendary Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant in California.

Challenges

• Create accurate sales forecasts. 
• Correctly determine proper balance of product types to avoid production shortfalls and overages among them.
• Keep operations running as efficiently and profitably as possible.
• Optimize the use of raw materials and cut costs.
• Acquire a software solution that works with technology already in place.
• Increase current production levels at a decreased cost per unit.