• Food and Beverage
  • Case Study

Granulati Italia: Continuous evolution and growth with SAP Business One

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Granulati Italia S.p.A. has been producing high-quality semi-finished food products for ice cream parlours, pastry shops and the hospitality and vending channels since 1982. The company is focused on uncompromising quality, guaranteeing production standards of excellence and complying with international certification procedures to ensure the highest level of food safety. For a company that is constantly evolving, SAP Business One is a reliable software capable of supporting and accompanying its growth.

Challenges and opportunities

  • The previous ERP consisted of several systems which handled commercial, administrative and production tasks separately and was therefore inadequate to requirements.
  • The company felt the need to adopt a management platform in step with the times, capable of satisfying all the production requirements of a company in constant evolution, and also with a view to its international growth.
  • This means managing the entire production, administrative and commercial cycle from client acquisition to order processing with a single integrated system.
Why choose SAP and Var One
  • SAP Business One is a global ERP designed for continuous evolution.
  • SAP Business One is a single system that allows all production, administrative and commercial process to be managed in an integrated manner thanks to a series of dedicated add-ons.
  • Var One is one of SAP's largest partners in Italy and Europe, capable of guaranteeing continuity over time.
  • Var One is a global partner with consolidated know-how, equipped with the best solutions for a food company like Granulati Italia, offering support in both software selection and the development and adoption of certain add-ons: (CompuTec's ProcessForce for production, CompuTec PDG for production progress monitoring, CompuTec WMS for warehouse management and order processing).

After: Value-Driven results

  • The comprehensiveness and completeness of the platform make it capable of managing all processes and meeting all business needs with a single system solution.
  • All data, figures and statistics are available in real time, with very high processing speed provided by the Hana solution.
  • This adds up to increased process efficiency, reduced lead times (inventories), increased data reliability and thus significantly reduced error rates.
    Simplified procedures for the quality certification of food products and raw materials.

“Since Granulati Italia is the market leader in Italy, and has operations worldwide, the main objective was to find a global software and partner capable of evolving and growing with us in terms of product quality and quality of offering and service, supporting our processes and issues and thus ensuring continuity.”
Mirko Canzi, IT Manager - Granulati Italia S.p.A.