Case Study: Mission Produce achieves reduced avocado spoilage and higher plant productivity with Happiest Minds

Modernized Legacy IBMi Management System Boosts Plant Productivity

Mission Produce, the world leader in Hass avocado production and distribution, operates packing and ripening facilities across multiple countries, including a large new plant in Peru. The company relied on an IBM AS/400 (IBMi) system for logistics and supply chain management, but its legacy workflows created slow, manual processes, added overhead and increased the risk of product spoilage and operational bottlenecks.

Happiest Minds modernized the plant’s systems with a service-oriented, responsive application built on Zend, integrated via APIs with the existing IBMi/DB2 backend and supported by BI reporting. The new solution automated critical workflows, delivered real-time status visibility, and fed data back to legacy systems—resulting in faster operations, improved productivity, reduced avocado spoilage, lower operating costs and a scalable platform for future needs.

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