Case Study: Cargill Salt achieves 39% productivity improvement with Sage Clarity Epicor Informance

Improves productivity with real-time analysis and performance metrics

Cargill Salt, a major salt producer, was facing challenges with inconsistent manufacturing data and high operational costs. Their lack of accurate metrics for equipment effectiveness and downtime led to unreliable production planning, excessive overtime, and elevated inventory carrying costs. To support their reliability program, they turned to vendor Sage Clarity for a solution, implementing the Epicor Informance enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) system.

The solution from Sage Clarity provided real-time, granular analysis of production data across all lines and plants. This led to a significant and measurable impact, including a 33% improvement in identifying losses and a 39% improvement in productivity. Within one year, one plant was producing over 20% more product per shift while using 40% less labor, allowing Cargill Salt to reduce costs and increase output dramatically.

Cargill Salt

Greg Yeager

Industrial Salt, Reliability Leader