United Sugars Success Story
United Sugars Corporation, the largest marketer of beet sugar and second largest overall (beet and cane) marketer of sugar in the United States, is a Bloomington, Minnesota-based marketing co-op. They ship beet sugar from nine sites in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota and cane sugar out of Clewiston, Florida. United Sugars' customers are world leaders in the candy, baking, cereal, dairy and beverage industries. To manage their business operations they use the R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from SAP.
When processing orders, United Sugars was relying on textual information, which was a slow process that made it hard to keep up with customer requirements.
To address these challenges, United Sugars searched for a transportation management system (TMS) with sophisticated planning and execution capabilities that would work in conjunction with their SAP system.