McCormick, SAP ink supply deal

SAP announced recently that McCormick & Co. Inc. has selected solutions from mySAP™ Business Suite in a strategic, global effort to improve business processes, effectively manage performance, and enhance both sales and service to its customers and its relationships with suppliers.

McCormick & Co. Inc. is the global leader in the manufacture, marketing, and distribu-tion of spices, seasonings, and flavors to the entire food industry. According to company executives, the selection of 1,500 mySAP Business Suite licenses further optimizes the value of the SAP enterprise management system in place at McCormick, providing both a comprehensive product suite and strategic business infrastructure to enable faster and more effective execution, management, and measurement of critical business functions.

In addition, the selection of SAP solutions will help McCormick extend collaborative capabilities to its trading partners on a global scale.

"SAP provides us with a strategic asset to power the Beyond 2000 initiative, and the sel-ection and implementation of new solutions will further our efforts to increase analytical capabilities, enhance trading partner relationships, and improve operations," said Fran Contino, CFO and SVP supply chain, McCormick & Co.

"The business intelligence solution, deployed through portal technology from the SAP NetWeaver platform, will enable us to quickly enhance the amount of valuable information we deliver to our sales force, our plant floor, and our business management," said Jerry Wolfe, CIO and vice president of Global Business Solutions, McCormick & Co.