Case Study: Agropur (Canada’s largest dairy cooperative) achieves 30% faster ERP upgrades with Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite

Panaya helps Agropur release fine cheese enterprise ERP updates 30% faster

Agropur’s Fine Cheese division — a 450‑employee unit of Canada’s largest dairy cooperative (serving over 3,500 farmers and processing 2.7 billion liters annually) — needed to upgrade its SAP 4.7 system to ERP 6.0 to access new functionality like Adobe Forms and to meet an impending end-of-maintenance deadline. With a small in‑house SAP team, a tight annual upgrade window and only a weekend of acceptable downtime, the division had to complete the upgrade quickly without heavy reliance on outsourced support.

After a Panaya CloudQuality™ Suite demo and trial, Agropur used Panaya for upgrade planning and testing and went live over a long weekend with no surprises. The project saved nearly six weeks (about 30% of the total upgrade time), cut outsourcing costs by 45%, reduced unit testing by 50% and integration testing by 30%, and finished under budget — benefits Agropur credits to Panaya’s hands‑on support and transparency.

Agropur

Marie Claude Alary

Manager, Business Process Systems Improvement