A dairy management solution

摘要

Nestle is the world's largest food and beverage company. With more than 2,000 brands across 191 countries, it was ranked number 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017. Nestle prides itself on continuous innovation, and the company's success is founded on over 150 years of anticipating trends and understanding consumers' needs. It has the most advanced science and innovation network in the food and beverages industry, which enables it to translate its knowledge into highly relevant products and services for consumers. In 2014, Nestle launched a project -Globe Milk Solution (GMS) - to replace aging dairy management software in its more than 25 dairy markets around the world. Nestle's digital innovation in operations and agriculture lead, Tomas Vera, explains that his company needed to replace its old and obsolete systems with a global solution. "Each country in our network had its own, customised local solution. Some markets shared a platform, but almost every market had its own because the laws and regulations governing raw milk processing differ from one country to another," he says. "The payment calculation formulas are also very different, which forced the creation of these disparate systems."