Case Study: The Chefs’ Warehouse achieves faster acquisition integration and improved inventory visibility with IBM and Oracle JD Edwards

Serving up the right ingredients to facilitate growth

The Chefs’ Warehouse, a specialty food distributor, needed to rapidly integrate new acquisitions and consistently meet its high standards for service and on-time delivery in a highly competitive market. To address this challenge, they partnered with IBM to implement the Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One ERP system.

IBM provided a comprehensive solution, implementing JD Edwards' financial and distribution modules to provide enterprise-wide inventory visibility and process automation. The result was improved efficiency across core functions; the accounts payable team, for instance, handled significantly more transactions without increasing staff size. IBM's implementation enabled The Chefs’ Warehouse to integrate new business units faster and build a stable foundation for future e-commerce and continued growth.

The Chefs’ Warehouse

Frank O’Dowd

Chief Information Officer