Case Study: Sunkist achieves rapid, low-maintenance Navision integration with Jitterbit

Oldest Citrus Growing Co-op Finds Sweet Spot with Supply Chain Integration

Sunkist Growers, the historic citrus co‑op, needed to replace the custom programs and scripts that tied their AS/400-based Sales & Distribution system (Kirkey) to Oracle Financials when they migrated to Microsoft Navision. Facing a complex, brittle custom-coded integration and a requirement to connect via Navision web services, Sunkist benchmarked six leading integration tools and selected Jitterbit for its balance of advanced functionality, ease of adoption, and simple support.

Using Jitterbit to trigger Navision web services let Sunkist leverage Navision’s business rules and isolate interfaces from backend tables, minimizing future change impact. The initial integration was deployed within days, eliminated the need for complex custom code, is maintainable by a single in-house resource, and was rated #1 in Sunkist’s six‑vendor benchmark.

Sunkist

Alan Kenworthy

Director, IT, Sunkist Growers