By SAP
As a food industry leader that has helped feed well over a billion people, Tyson Foods is no stranger to innovation. Seeing massive transformation taking place in the industry, Tyson has followed an aggressive expansion strategy to provide the scale and operational efficiency needed to bring affordable protein products to more people around the globe. A few examples include Tyson's recent acquisition of Keystone Foods and the Thai and European assets of Brazilian-owned BRF, two companies whose assets would give the food industry leader the scale needed to accomplish its global mission.
However, ask any person who is involved in the world of M&A and they’ll tell you it’s complex, especially when it comes to managing and consolidating the different systems and assets that come with purchases. No one knows this better than Gene Pagel, Tyson's VP of Business Integration, whose primary charter at the company has been finding innovative ways to integrate hundreds of acquired legacy systems into the company’s Global ERP strategy built on SAP S/4HANA.