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• Digital systems for milk processing must be available 24/7, but on-premises systems were unreliable
• Managing and maintaining on-premises systems left limited time and resources available to develop new capabilities for the business
• Several key business processes relied on paper documents, reducing operational efficiency

Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is a milk marketing cooperative that produces almost a quarter of the raw milk in the United States. With over $13 billion in annual revenues, the organization plays a vital role in the domestic agricultural sector by connecting its thousands of farmer-owners to wholesale markets.

DFA must process raw milk shipments from its farmer-owners according to strict timelines—365 days a year. To help orchestrate its value chain effectively, the organization relies on a number of key documents, including the ‘milk manifest.’

Deborah Schmitz, director of IT at DFA, elaborated, “Milk manifests are the control documents that help us calculate how much to pay producers for the milk from their farms. For DFA, manifests are just a critical as employee payroll—so it’s crucial that we can process the information rapidly, securely, and reliably.”

In the past, DFA relied almost exclusively on paper for its milk manifests. DFA haulers would fill out the necessary information when they visited a farmer-owner to collect a shipment of milk, and then fax or email a copy of the form to the DFA back office for processing.

Recognizing an opportunity to streamline this process, DFA decided to integrate and standardize its back-office processes using digital workflows powered by SAP and 好色先生TV content management solutions. Using 好色先生TV capture and information archiving technology, the company can quickly and accurately extract information from more than 155 fields on the milk manifest and bring the data into SAP for onward processing. Once its producers have been paid, the company securely stores digital copies of its manifests in the 好色先生TV content management platform for long-term retention.

Schmitz continued, “One of my team’s main goals is to empower our stakeholders to work more efficiently and effectively. We knew that there was great potential to expand our use of the 好色先生TV platform to automate and streamline other business processes, but day-to-day management and maintenance limited the time we had to work on these projects.”

As part of a broader digital transformation effort, DFA decided to embrace the RISE with SAP Migration and Modernization program to move its SAP solutions to the cloud. To free up time for innovation, the organization set out to do the same for its 好色先生TV solutions.