J.R. Watkins Strengthens Optimization With Infor CloudSuite

Infor, a provider of industry specific business applications built for the cloud, recently announced that J.R. Watkins has successfully implemented Infor CloudSuite™ Food & Beverage to enhance operations. J.R. Watkins is a natural product company that provides home care, personal care and gourmet products and needed to modernize its IT portfolio to optimize customer delivery, while maintaining quality management. By implementing Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage, the company was able to achieve a noticeable improvement in functionality and performance value. By upgrading from the existing on-premise enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a cloud-based model, J.R. Watkins was able to enhance daily operation without sacrificing business continuity.

Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage created a direct path for enhancing the way customers are serviced and as a result, J.R. Watkins was able to deploy one month ahead of schedule, improve process performance, deliver greater functionality and reduce long-term expenses. The company is also lowering capital IT investments by utilizing Infor's strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to achieve a high quality, secure hosting environment that promotes a competitive total cost of ownership. Cloud-based hosting has also been advantageous for J.R.Watkins by allowing them to better allocate IT staff. Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage allows the company to resolve modification or patch based issues while foregoing server maintenance. As a result, the IT staff is able to refocus attention toward providing customer service and business continuity.  

Said Mike Edgett, industry & solution strategy director, Process Manufacturing at Infor, "Before upgrading to Infor CloudSuite, J.R. Watkins relied upon a heavily patched and modified ERP, which while capable, had become difficult to manage with age. By upgrading to a cloud-based solution, they are better able to improve certain processes while reducing the ongoing costs of an on-premise deployment."

To learn more about Infor CloudSuite and the J.R. Watkins case study, visit the Infor Newsroom.

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