Ardent Mills is a premier flour-milling and ingredient company that cultivates the future of plant-based solutions to help their customers and communities thrive. They are committed to transforming how the world is nourished. They operate in more than 40 locations and specialize in flour, quinoa, pulses, and organic & gluten-free products to drive emerging nutrition and innovation across plant-based ingredients. Their holistic portfolio empowers the company to meet the complex needs of customers today while focusing on the growing needs of tomorrow’s consumer. Deeply rooted in communities throughout North America, Ardent Mills operates in the United States, including Puerto Rico, and Canada, with company headquarters in Denver, Colorado. They employ more than 100 certified millers and support thousands of local jobs that contribute billions of dollars to local economies – helping people, customers, and families everywhere flourish. Ardent Mills is also committed to corporate social responsibility, the quality of life and health for economy, and practice environmental sustainability across their four focus areas – Agriculture, Transportation & Logistics, Procurement, and Operations.
To stay current with the increase in operations and production across their plants in several different countries, their processes needed to be efficient and supported by the technological capabilities available today. This was a priority to ensure their cross-country teams were operating at optimal capacity.
In this article, we shine the spotlight on a long-time employee, Deborah Romero-Reinig, who used Power Apps and Power Platform to improve processes at Ardent Mills and establish reporting capabilities across their plants. Deborah started her Power Apps journey with SharePoint as the primary data source. In preparation towards building a paperless state-of-the-art mill, she and the team are transitioning to Microsoft Dataverse as the underlying data platform for all their apps. Following on from Deborah’s success with Power Platform, an internal community of citizen developers has emerged at the company which has led to further innovation and an increase in efficiency through low-code digital solutions.
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