Case Study: Hormel Foods achieves one-platform visibility and faster acquisitions for 50+ brands with Oracle Cloud Applications

With over 50 brands on 1 cloud, Hormel Foods is nuts about Oracle

Hormel Foods, a 130‑year‑old global branded food company that manages 50+ iconic brands (including Planters, SKIPPY, and SPAM), faced fragmented, aging IT systems from years of acquisitions and heavy customizations. Disparate HCM, ERP, and supply‑chain applications limited visibility, slowed processes, and made integrations—like the $3.35B Planters acquisition—complex and time‑consuming.

Through Project Orion, Hormel partnered with Oracle and KPMG to consolidate HCM, ERP, EPM, and SCM on Oracle Cloud (using Oracle Integration and Migration). The move delivered a single source of truth, faster acquisition integration, a partially automated financial close, improved procurement and vendor visibility, cross‑brand forecasting, and continuous quarterly upgrades—strengthening agility and competitive decision‑making.

Hormel Foods

Jim Sheehan

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer