Founded two decades ago on the premise that all milk isn't created equal, Sydney-based a2 Milk Company is expanding worldwide, supported by a new foundation of cloud applications that ties together its global operations.
even as a2 Milk started to grow rapidly across geographies, disparities in data reporting and processes from country to country made it all-but-impossible to operate as one global company rather than an agglomeration of national ones, says CFO Race Strauss. The company, with annual revenue of about US$850 million, now has operations in Australia, New Zealand, China (its largest market), the US, and most recently Canada.In April 2021, a2 Milk standardized worldwide on several Oracle Cloud applications: Oracle Cloud ERP's accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, cash/collections management, and financial analytics modules; Oracle Cloud EPM's financial consolidation and close module; and Oracle Cloud SCM's procurement, inventory management, order management, and manufacturing modules. Later this year, the company plans to go live on Oracle Cloud EPM's planning and budgeting module and Oracle Cloud ERP's expenses module.