Carozzi S.A. Updates Server Infrastructure, Accelerates Data Uploads by 300%
 
 

Carozzi S.A. Updates Server Infrastructure, Accelerates Data Uploads by 300%

  • Oracle Customer:  Carozzi S.A.
    Location:  Santiago, Chile
    Industry:  Consumer Goods
    Employees:  10,000
    Annual Revenue:  $1 to $5 Billion

Printer View Printer View

Carozzi S.A., a leading Chilean food company that produces pasta, biscuits, candy, chocolates, flour, rice, breakfast cereals, tomato paste and fruit pulp, has nine production plants in Chile, two in Argentina, and three in Peru. It also has commercial offices in United States, Mexico, Ecuador, and Paraguay. Carozzi exports more than 1,000 products to nearly 50 countries on five continents. Its leading brands include Carozzi, Costa, and Ambrosoli.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Carozzi S.A.

  • “The combination of Oracle Database and Oracle’s Sun hardware provides significant value in terms of operating continuity. We can develop value-added applications for our company and customers and continually innovate, critical capabilities for mass consumer companies.” – Adolfo Salvatierra, IT DIrector, Carozzi S.A.

  • Implement a new server infrastructure as the basis for upgrading its third-party enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, ensuring operational continuity to support the company’s steady growth, including plans to expand into new food product lines and acquire companies,
  • Improve information management to accelerate application response times, improving things such as supply chain, production, and demand planning
  • Maximize server availability for optimal product planning

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner ENTEL Chile S.A. to deploy the Oracle technology infrastructure, supporting additional ERP features, like supply chain management, for its more than 1,400 users, and ultimately helping to increase food product sales
  • Implemented Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition to accelerate response times
  • Reduced time for uploading food product information to clients’ mobile sales devices from six hours to two hours daily—a 300% improvement
  • Accelerated the materials control process from 16 hours to 6 hours, allowing the company to quantify materials used in food production  more precisely, and to adjust margins more efficiently
  • Ensured operating continuity by running the company’s database on a SPARC Enterprise M5000 server  cluster and using four SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers for transactional systems
  • Implemented a contingency, high availability platform based on clustered SPARC Enterprise M4000 servers and two SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers
  • Implemented Oracle Application Server to ensure database and application availability

Partner