Customer Story: Ben E. Keith
From Hand-Built EDI to EDI Automation Factory
Ben E. Keith rebuilt their entire integration infrastructure with Cleo and hasn't looked back.
Phil Brandt, VP of Architecture at Ben E. Keith Company, shares how this 120-year-old, family-owned food and beverage distributor tackled a massive ERP transformation alongside a full re-engineering of trading partner integrations. After years of hand-built, undocumented EDI and custom scripts, Ben E. Keith needed a scalable, standardized integration platform that could keep pace with thousands of trading partners — and grow with the business.
Results & Key Takeaways:
- Rebuilt integrations with 1,000s of trading partners alongside a full ERP transformation
- Cleo Managed Services delivers 24/7 monitoring
- The value of supply chain orchestration and single-pane-of-glass visibility
- Non-technical staff can now diagnose and triage errors without waiting on developers
- AI-assisted mapping will dramatically cut time-to-market for new integrations
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1:7Century Supply Chain SolutionsHear how Century Supply Chain Solutions uses Cleo to support supply chain orchestration across its growing logistics operations.
