Case Study: Ready Pac Foods, Inc achieves real-time crop visibility and operational agility with Cisco HyperFlex

Ready Pac Foods uses Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged technology to keep food fresh from field to plate

Ready Pac Foods, Inc., a 3,500-employee fresh‑food producer, needed an IT infrastructure that could support profitable growth and provide real‑time analytics for tight harvest-to-shelf windows. Facing an aging mixed‑vendor environment that hindered mobile crop reporting and timely demand forecasting, the company evaluated hyperconverged options and selected Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged technology (integrated with VMware vCenter) to modernize operations and enable mobile data collection for its AgOps and BI systems.

Ready Pac deployed a Cisco HyperFlex System, completing installation in days and migrating 70% of workloads in under two weeks, and leveraged the platform to replace paper crop reports with real‑time mobile feeds into Tableau. Cisco HyperFlex improved traceability and forecasting, helped win tens of millions of dollars in new business, and delivered measurable savings — canceling more than $30,000 a year in extended support contracts and cutting over $50,000 a year in power and cooling — while increasing VM density and freeing IT to focus on strategic initiatives.

Ready Pac Foods, Inc

Mark Myers

Director, Information Technology