Aptean Food & Beverage ERP bcFood Edition
Green Valley Pecan Tracks Millions of Pounds of Product with Aptean Food & Beverage ERP Industry
Food & Beverage
Challenges
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Manual processes for production Inefficient processes in the packaging department
Benefits
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Increased number of quality checks at each stage of production Implemented automated packaging processes Gained the ability to track millions of pounds of inventory
Green Valley Pecan is one of the world’s largest pecan growers and the seventh-largest pecan processor. The company, based in Sahuarita, Ariz., was founded in 1946 by Keith Walden, who purchased a large area of farmland in the Santa Cruz Valley, just south of Tucson, Ariz. Walden found initial success by becoming one of the country’s largest exporters of lettuce, but eventually determined that the Santa Cruz Valley was ideal for growing pecans. From 1965 to 1969, the company planted 7,000 acres of pecan trees to create the largest irrigated pecan orchard in the world. In 1975, Green Valley Pecan built its processing plant, and in 2000, it expanded its operations and purchased two more swaths of land, one in Cochise County, Ariz., and the other in Georgia. Today, the company owns over 10,000 acres of pecan trees and produces tens of millions of pounds of in-shell pecans a year.
Multiple Legacy Systems Created Inefficiencies in Production Prior to implementing Aptean Food & Beverage ERP, Green Valley Pecan was utilizing two separate systems to help manage its operations. While the two systems worked reasonably well together, the team at Green Valley Pecan was stuck using each of the software’s most basic features, which resulted in a lack of real-time tracking and visibility.