Case Study: Ensign-Bickford Industries achieves major cost savings and productivity gains with Boomi

Ensign-Bickford Saves Costs, Boosts Productivity, and Enhances Customer Delight

Ensign-Bickford Industries (EBI), a 19th‑century company now serving aerospace and defense, pet food, and agricultural science markets, faced growing integration challenges after steady organic expansion. EBI needed to modernize enterprise integrations—especially around its IFS ERP—to cut costs, boost productivity and work‑life balance, and improve customer experience. Key projects included automating payroll (Workday to ADP), linking IFS to the Equans MES for shop‑floor operations, and replacing a manual, monthly SAP Concur T&E load (which consumed 100+ hours annually) with a daily automated feed.

EBI selected Boomi in early 2021, leveraging an IFS‑Boomi connector and IFS REST APIs to pull daily Concur data and automatically create external vouchers in IFS, with similar integrations for payroll and MES. The implementation removed roughly 75% of pre‑IFS failure points, eliminated 95–100% of manual T&E effort, and significantly reduced finance/HR hours and error risk—delivering measurable cost savings, productivity gains, better work‑life balance, and improved customer satisfaction.

Ensign-Bickford Industries

Brendan Kehoe

Chief Information Officer