Case Study: Dot Foods achieves large-scale EDI and non-EDI order automation with Cleo Integration Cloud

How Cleo data transformation improved Dot Foods’ $7 billion redistribution business

Dot Foods, the $7 billion food redistribution company, faced rising integration complexity from handling EDI and non‑EDI transactions across multiple applications and systems. The patchwork of custom code and manual order entry hindered its goal to automate 80% of purchase orders, so Dot Foods engaged Cleo after an on‑site demo to find a common integration tool that would accept flat files, spreadsheets and XML as well as traditional EDI.

Cleo’s data transformation and integration platform, Cleo Integration Cloud, delivered auto‑mapping, end‑to‑end business integration and was paired with OCR for faxed orders, enabling Dot Foods to move data between systems without custom code. The Cleo solution automated tens of thousands of EDI and non‑EDI purchase orders, reduced manual order entry, sped trading‑partner onboarding via FTP processes, and became the company’s go‑to tool for complex mappings and integrations.

Dot Foods

Sean Ketcham

Electronic Commerce Coordinaator