Snack food giant Mondelēz International had to transport a whole lot of Oreo cookies, Cadbury and Toblerone chocolate, Ritz and Triscuit crackers, and many other snacks on the way to $25.9 billion in revenue last year.

Almost a third of that was sold in North America, where Robert Owen leads transportation network optimization. That network connects a vast array of plants, distribution centers, branches, external manufacturers, and suppliers. When he joined the company in 2012, the transportation function ran on on-premises Oracle applications, using a wide range of hardware that Mondelēz had to manage.