Case Study: Australian Consolidated Milk (ACM) achieves streamlined operations, end-to-end traceability and cost savings with Microsoft Power Apps

Dairy data floods ACM with daily goodness, ensures efficiency, and guards quality

Australian Consolidated Milk (ACM) runs a $55 million high‑tech milk‑processing facility in Girgarre that handles multiple milk types (conventional, organic, A2) and needed to automate tanker unloading, guarantee end‑to‑end traceability, prevent cross‑contamination, reduce human error, and control costs. To modernize operations and extend quality monitoring to farmers, ACM worked with Advance Computing and implemented Microsoft Power Apps as part of a broader Microsoft technology stack.

Using Microsoft Power Apps together with Dynamics 365, Azure Cognitive Services, Power BI and Azure, Advance Computing built an integrated system for automated booking/unloading, tank and pump controls that block incorrect transfers, image‑based quality checks, and farmer temperature alerts. The solution delivered full farm‑to‑factory traceability, reduced contamination risk, connected 5,000+ data endpoints for real‑time decision‑making, and cut weekend overtime—estimated savings of about $100,000 a year—while improving operational efficiency and competitiveness.

Australian Consolidated Milk (ACM)

Jason Limbrick

Chief Operating Officer