Case Study: Cargills (Ceylon) PLC achieves $250,000 CapEx savings and faster, complaint-free operations with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle)

Cargills saves $250,000 on CapEx by migrating apps to Oracle Cloud

Cargills (Ceylon) is a 180‑year‑old Sri Lankan conglomerate that runs more than 400 retail outlets, is the country’s largest food manufacturer, and operates diverse businesses from restaurants to banking. After deploying Oracle JD Edwards on‑premises starting in 2012, the company hit hardware and resource constraints in 2017—causing slow invoice and batch processing and blocking a rollout at its dairy business—so it faced a choice between costly new servers or moving to the cloud.

Cargills migrated its JDE applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, avoiding about $250,000 in capital expenditure. The move let the company scale compute resources up or down without rebuilding instances, eliminated user complaints about performance, and enabled reliable, device‑agnostic access across locations—so seamless that most users don’t realize the system now runs in the cloud.

Cargills (Ceylon) PLC

Affan Yusuf

Manager IT Application Support