Danish Crown: Meeting high food safety and quality standards with SAP PLM
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“SAP PLM provides integration with our ERP back end
to enable specification exchange. This helps us search
and retrieve information such as ingredients, origin,
and additives.”
Marianne Faber, Domain Architect, Danish Crown A/S
Danish Crown A/S
Randers, Denmark
www.danishcrown.com
Industry
Consumer products
Employees
26,641
Revenue
DKr68 billion
(€9.1 billion)
Products and services
Production and commercialization
of animal protein–based food
Featured solutions
SAP PLM
1,500
Suppliers onboarded
to SAP PLM
6 months
To complete the project
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Time-consuming, nontransparent process of obtaining material specifications and information
from suppliers to meet high food safety and quality standards
• Need for a transparent platform to centralize diverse stakeholders’ data
• Importance of specifications and associated documents used during audits to verify compliance
with legislation in each country and with customer requirements
Why SAP
• SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) portfolio, enabling formalized, transparent, and
harmonized digital processes
• Support for more-secure and direct digitalized data exchange with suppliers for production
material specifications
• Bidirectional integration of data with the back-end ERP system
After: Value-driven results
• Simplified processes by eliminating multiple sources of information, including e-mails and phone
calls, in exchanging formal objects such as specifications, documents, and certificates
• Enabled efficient and scalable collaboration within and across the extended enterprise
Meeting high food safety and quality standards with SAP PLM
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“SAP PLM provides integration with our ERP back end
to enable specification exchange. This helps us search
and retrieve information such as ingredients, origin,
and additives.”
Marianne Faber, Domain Architect, Danish Crown A/S
Danish Crown A/S
Randers, Denmark
www.danishcrown.com
Industry
Consumer products
Employees
26,641
Revenue
DKr68 billion
(€9.1 billion)
Products and services
Production and commercialization
of animal protein–based food
Featured solutions
SAP PLM
1,500
Suppliers onboarded
to SAP PLM
6 months
To complete the project
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Time-consuming, nontransparent process of obtaining material specifications and information
from suppliers to meet high food safety and quality standards
• Need for a transparent platform to centralize diverse stakeholders’ data
• Importance of specifications and associated documents used during audits to verify compliance
with legislation in each country and with customer requirements
Why SAP
• SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) portfolio, enabling formalized, transparent, and
harmonized digital processes
• Support for more-secure and direct digitalized data exchange with suppliers for production
material specifications
• Bidirectional integration of data with the back-end ERP system
After: Value-driven results
• Simplified processes by eliminating multiple sources of information, including e-mails and phone
calls, in exchanging formal objects such as specifications, documents, and certificates
• Enabled efficient and scalable collaboration within and across the extended enterprise
Meeting high food safety and quality standards with SAP PLM
94183enUS (24/09) © 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use