CASE STUDY: REIMAGINING IT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A DISTRIBUTION GIANT

From Distribution Giant to Digital Leader: Reimagining IT Infrastructure
It’s hard to be one of North America’s top food and beverage distributors when your legacy infrastructure stops you from, well, delivering food. For AHEAD’S client, a $60 billion industry giant, every minute of system downtime meant potential delays in food delivery to thousands of restaurants, hospitals, and schools across America. Slow system rollouts, inconsistent configurations, and a lack of visibility into asset management were also hindering the company’s ability to scale efficiently in a time of rapid growth.
Download the case study to see how AHEAD partnered with the client to transform their infrastructure and deliver the operational efficiency needed to keep up with the scale of business at 150 locations and counting.
Top 3 Takeaways
IT infrastructure standardization and optimization for a $60B industry giant netted immediate operational efficiency:
- T-shirt sizing configuration standardization simplified implementation and dramatically reduced maintenance overhead.
- 3X faster site deployments accomplishing in days what used to take weeks
- Streamlined asset management in AHEAD Hatch yielded real-time asset tracking and program visibility for precise budgeting and forecasting