Lesaffre Yeast Corporation and Red Star Yeast Company LLC, a joint venture between Lesaffre Yeast Corporation and Archer Daniels Midland Company Inc., is a producer of yeast for a variety of applications throughout North America. These applications include bakeries and food service, retail stores for home baking, wine, animal feed additives, human health care and ethanol.
In 2004, Lesaffre installed the Process Manufacturing version of Oracle E-Business Suite (OPM), designed specifically for recipe-based manufacturing. It was one of the first subsidiaries within the Lesaffre Group family, a global company of 6,000 employees based in France, to install a fully integrated ERP system.