Case Study: C&S Wholesale Grocers achieves 60% faster app performance and improved supply‑chain resilience with HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD‑WAN

Optimizes efficiency and productivity of grocery supply chain with business-driven HPE Aruba Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN

C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery supplier in the U.S. serving over 7,900 customers, relied on data-driven supply chain systems hosted in two data centers and connected to 60 warehouses. Its legacy MPLS WAN suffered unpredictable downtime and manual failover, causing interruptions to real-time inventory, SaaS, voice and video applications and threatening customer service and productivity.

C&S deployed HPE Aruba EdgeConnect SD‑WAN (with WAN optimization and orchestration), allowing simultaneous use of MPLS, DIA and LTE, automated sub‑millisecond failover, application overlays for SLA enforcement, and integration with cloud security and RingCentral. The rollout boosted SaaS and data‑center application performance by about 60%, enabled up to 60% projected telecom cost savings, increased uptime and user experience, and freed IT staff to focus on strategic projects—resulting in higher employee productivity and happier customers.

C&S Wholesale Grocers

Leonard Bernstein

Senior Director of Infrastructure and Service Delivery