Aptean Smart Hub
Bongards Creameries Utilizing Aptean Smart Hub to Save Time, Streamline Processes and Drive Continual Improvement Industry
Food & Beverage
Challenges
» Manual processes consuming team
members’ valuable time and leaving room for error
» Lack of visibility across multiple
solutions for different operational areas
» Need for greater insight into
potential issues before problems occur
Benefits
» Time saved and mistakes prevented thanks to intelligent, automated processes
» Cohesive solution ecosystem via integrations between platforms
» Automatic alerts based on
predefined criteria keep employees in-the-know
Founded in 1908 in the small southern Minnesota town that gave the business its name, Bongards Creameries is a 300-farmer co-op with more than a century of dairy expertise. Now headquartered in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the organization is a vertically-integrated global supplier of both natural and processed cheeses, as well as powdered whey, with hundreds of millions of pounds of finished goods manufactured at two Minnesota production facilities and a third in Tennessee. The company’s clients range from foodservice distributors to commercial restaurants, retail delis, schools and convenience stores. Bongards has been a satisfied Aptean Process Manufacturing ERP client for a number of years, but in the process of growing and expanding the company’s tech stack over time, key internal decision-makers identified a need for greater connectivity between the numerous applications and platforms utilized by employees. That’s why the leadership team chose to implement Aptean Smart Hub, a solution designed to automate processes, enable system integrations, promote data accessibility and increase collaboration across an entire organization. Bongards’ staff have leveraged it more and more over eight years of use to tie together various software and web services while also automating tedious manual processes.