Case Study: Blue Diamond Growers achieves faster, more accurate demand and supply planning with SAP Ariba

How Can Next-Generation ERP Take Demand and Supply Planning to the Next Level to Accelerate Growth

Blue Diamond Growers, a Sacramento-based cooperative serving more than 3,000 growers and $1.7B in annual revenue, needed to modernize operations to support continuous product innovation and maximize returns for its members. The company faced fragmented planning, procurement, and analytics processes—especially in its lower‑margin ingredients business—and sought expert help to deploy an intelligent ERP and integrate new supply‑chain and analytics solutions.

Working with SAP, Accenture, and The Silicon Partners, Blue Diamond deployed SAP S/4HANA integrated with SAP IBP, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Ariba, backed by SAP Enterprise Support and Early Adopter Care. The result was a single source of truth for demand and supply planning, greater automation and fewer errors, faster sales and financial processes (financial closing time down 40%; one task reduced from six hours to 20 minutes), broker settlements cut to 2 days, conversion downtime reduced 54%, and a 35% smaller financial data system.

Blue Diamond

Steve Birgfeld

Vice President Information Technology and Services