ERP system helps multi-sited pasta maker consolidate IT systems and streamline EDI
Cooperatively owned by more than 1,100 durum wheat farm families, Dakota Growers has pasta production facilities in Carrington, N.Dak. and New Hope, Minn., as well as its own durum mill attached to the pasta plant in Carrington. It also operates two company-owned warehouses and uses eight external public warehouses throughout the country. Although the process of making pasta is fairly basic -- grinding durum wheat into semolina; mixing water to form dough, extruding and drying various pasta shapes -- the undertaking becomes more complex when special shapes, ingredients and packaging configurations are required. As a result, the entire process at Dakota Growers is integrated from field to plate, allowing the company to monitor all processes from seeding and harvesting to product delivery.