Case Study: Large Food Manufacturer achieves ERP modernization and 50% IT cost reduction with IT Craft

Custom software development, modernizing and optimizing legacy project of a major food processing company

Large Food Manufacturer, a major food‑processing company with a 30+ year COBOL‑based custom ERP, faced growing incompatibility with modern technologies and could no longer support new business requirements. IT Craft was engaged to provide custom software development and ERP modernization (moving to an Angular / ASP.NET MVC /.NET stack) while preserving continuous operations and existing workflows.

IT Craft executed a stepwise migration that ran the legacy and new systems in parallel, synchronizing data in the same database with data locks, introducing a .NET core, infrastructure updates, continuous monitoring, and phased feature transfers to avoid downtime. The modernization delivered measurable impact: IT costs fell by 50%, development productivity rose 26%, system performance improved 15%, and the company gained streamlined workflows, fewer errors, and new automated capabilities (billing, warehouse, etc.) while maintaining data integrity and uninterrupted service.