An enterprise platform connecting warehouse operations, production execution, transportation coordination, and livestock management across two processing plants, built according to the requirements of North America's largest lamb processor.
Superior Farms was running warehouse, production, transportation, and livestock operations across two processing plants without a system to connect them. Manual processes, inventory gaps, and siloed data blocked visibility at every level. A custom enterprise platform was built leveraging Cattlytics capabilities on Microsoft Dynamics 365, covering advanced warehouse management, production execution, transportation coordination, and livestock operations integration.
Superior Farms is the largest processor and marketer of American lamb in North America. Founded in 1964 and headquartered in Davis, California, the company runs two processing plants in Dixon, CA and Denver, CO, sources from family ranchers across the country, and supplies retail and foodservice customers in the United States and more than 10 countries. The company is structured as an employee-owned business (ESOP), giving every team member a direct stake in how operations perform.
Industry
American Lamb Processing
Geography Served
Davis, California, USA
Technology
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain
Family rancher partnerships channeled through one connected supply chain platform
Employee-owners whose daily work now runs on a single enterprise system
Dixon, CA and Denver, CO processing facilities connected through a single enterprise ERP
Of all USDA-inspected American lamb processed annually, now with full supply chain traceability
Superior Farms processes more lamb than any other operation in North America. Two plants, a national network of rancher partners, and customers across more than 10 countries generate significant movement every day across receiving, production, warehousing, and logistics. As that volume grew, the tools managing it did not keep pace. Finance, production, and warehouse teams each maintained their own records with no shared data connecting them. Management was making decisions based on information that was already out of date by the time it reached them.
Processing, warehouse, finance, and transportation ran on separate systems with no shared data layer connecting day-to-day operations.
Lot, pallet, and license plate tracking were not consistently applied, leaving teams without reliable visibility into what was on hand.
Production teams logged harvest schedules, cut data, and inventory movement by hand. System records lagged hours behind actual plant activity.
Load planning, route scheduling, and carrier coordination were handled separately from warehouse and inventory, creating gaps in outbound execution.
The implementation was structured in six stages around Superior Farms' specific operational requirements, beginning with the enterprise foundation and expanding to warehouse execution, production management, outbound logistics, and the livestock operations layer. Each stage was adopted and validated before the next was introduced, ensuring teams worked from accurate, system-driven data before additional capabilities went live.
Superior Farms' operational landscape across finance, warehouse, production, transportation, and livestock was assessed to define a purpose-built implementation roadmap.
The D365 Finance & Supply Chain platform was configured as the central system of record for finance, procurement, inventory, and sales order management.
Advanced Warehouse Management introduced system-directed controls for receiving, put-away, replenishment, and picking, with lot and license plate tracking embedded throughout.
The Ardia production app and Microsoft Warehouse Management mobile app were deployed to digitize harvest scheduling, label printing, and real-time inventory creation.
Outbound logistics were connected to the ERP, bringing load planning, route scheduling, and carrier coordination into the same system driving warehouse and production.
Configured as the livestock operations layer, connecting breeding, health records, and master planning with D365 supply chain and financial workflows via Integrator.
The custom enterprise platform built for Superior Farms leverages our meat processing ERP capabilities, running on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain and extended with warehouse, production, transportation, and livestock modules tailored to the operation's specific requirements. Each component captures data at the point of activity and routes it into a single enterprise record for finance, supply chain, and management reporting.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain forms the enterprise backbone for finance, procurement, inventory, and reporting at both plants.
Custom warehouse workflows were designed around Superior Farms' receiving, put-away, picking, staging, and shipment processes at both plants.
Lot, pallet, and license plate traceability was configured for every warehouse and production movement across Superior Farms' processing scope.
The Microsoft Warehouse Management mobile app delivers guided transactions on the plant floor with offline capability for high-volume processing environments.
A custom WMS layer handles Superior Farms-specific warehouse flows that fall outside standard Advanced Warehouse Management configurations.
Production workflows were customized for Superior Farms' harvest scheduling, labeling requirements, and production orders, with inventory records auto-created in D365.
Outbound load planning, route scheduling, and carrier coordination run within the same ERP that manages warehouse inventory and plant operations.
Livestock breeding, health, and master planning records flow into D365 via Integrator for connected end-to-end visibility.
Superior Farms runs two processing plants and a national rancher network on one connected platform. Plant teams execute warehouse and production workflows through guided, system-driven processes. Outbound logistics planning sits inside the same ERP as inventory. Livestock records flow directly into supply chain operations. Every function, from receiving livestock through final shipment, now generates a single continuous data record.
Superior Farms processes more lamb than any other operation in North America on a custom enterprise platform built around their specific requirements. Let's explore what that could look like for your plant.