A third-generation family owned company founded in 1949, Simmons Foods has been known for its business foresight, innovation and loyalty to customers. In fact, some of their customer relationships go back almost fifty years. In the late 1990s, their management dramatically shifted the company's focus. Rather than investing company resources to build their own consumer brands, they made a strategic decision to concentrate on their business-to-business customers. In addition to maintaining long-term relationships, they carefully add new partners in key market segments. Historically an innovative company, Simmons Foods operates under four business units: Poultry, Pet Food, Rendering and Fowl Processing.

• Successfully implemented iProcurement and Purchasing.
• Are aggressively rolling out iProcurement to all of its 15 purchasing sites.
• Punch-Out Strategy to extract maximum value and minimize the number of vendors.
• Moved to a workflow driven requisition process from a paper PO environment.
• Worked through their 11.5.9 and 11.5.10 upgrades.