Case Study: Barilla streamlines food manufacturing operations with Databricks

Creating a winning recipe for a hyperefficient supply chain

Barilla, the world’s largest pasta producer, faced growing supply-chain and manufacturing challenges from climate disruption, rising raw-material costs, and a legacy on-premises data warehouse that couldn’t scale. With data siloed across factories, logistics, inventory, ESG, and marketing systems, Barilla struggled to analyze more than 1TB of daily data and needed better governance for GDPR compliance. Databricks helped them modernize their data foundation with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Lakehouse.

Using Databricks, Barilla centralized data management and analytics into a unified platform, improving collaboration and making it easier to find and analyze the right data for decision-making. The result was better manufacturing performance at lower cost, more efficient logistics, improved sustainability reporting, and more targeted marketing campaigns. Databricks enabled Barilla to reduce silos, strengthen data governance, and deliver more timely insights across the business.

Barilla

Graziano Belmonte

Global Big Data and Advanced Analytics Director