Case Study: Maple Leaf Foods achieves 88 TB storage reduction and $1M+ cost savings with BackOffice Associates

BackOffice Associates helped Maple Leaf Foods eliminate over $1 million in anticipated future infrastructure costs

Maple Leaf Foods, a leading consumer protein company, faced a complex challenge when divesting its Canada Bread division: it needed to remove all Canada Bread records from multiple intermingled SAP systems (ERP, SRM, CRM, EWM) while preserving historical data, maintaining legal and audit compliance, and avoiding any accidental deletion of Maple Leaf data.

Maple Leaf engaged BackOffice Associates and its Data Stewardship Platform to automate a compliant data carve-out; over a one-year engagement they removed 57% of production data—more than 45 billion records—reclaiming 88 TB of storage, saving over $1M in anticipated infrastructure costs, shortening backup and QA cycles, and preparing the SAP landscape for a smaller, more cost-effective S/4HANA deployment, all completed under budget.

Maple Leaf Foods

Vicky Pasqualini

Director of ERP Integration and Release Management