Case Study: Smithfield Foods achieves unified global teamwork and efficiency with Microsoft Office 365

Food company enhances global teamwork, unity, and efficiency with Microsoft Office 365

Smithfield Foods, a US$15 billion global food manufacturer with about 48,000 employees, faced fragmented systems and processes after growth through acquisition, making global collaboration, scheduling, file sharing, and regulatory compliance difficult. Leadership sought a single, secure platform to unite employees, data, and workflows and to enable mobile, around‑the‑clock productivity.

Smithfield standardized on Microsoft Office 365 (including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, and Office 365 ProPlus) with Microsoft Services to build a single global address list and company intranet. The move improved teamwork (notably via video calls), sped eDiscovery, increased mobility and security, supported further cloud adoption (Azure, System Center), and produced hard savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars while helping create a cohesive “One Smithfield” culture.

Smithfield Foods

Mansour Zadeh

Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer