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    Ardent Mills - Public Cloud Enabled Enterprise IT Simplification-Updated

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    This document summarizes the journey of Ardent Mills, a flour milling company, to simplify its operations through a digital transformation to a fully public cloud-enabled solution. Key steps in its journey included announcing a joint venture in 2013, selecting its headquarters in 2014, and completing an operational alignment project in 2016. Its goals were to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, innovate products and services through data-driven decisions, and create a modular, responsive IT landscape aligned with business needs. Through its "Velcro architecture" and public cloud solution, Ardent Mills achieved a 90% improvement in key performance metrics, simplified its IT landscape, reduced IT costs, and gained capabilities to rapidly adapt to business needs.

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    This document summarizes the journey of Ardent Mills, a flour milling company, to simplify its operations through a digital transformation to a fully public cloud-enabled solution. Key steps in its journey included announcing a joint venture in 2013, selecting its headquarters in 2014, and completing an operational alignment project in 2016. Its goals were to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, innovate products and services through data-driven decisions, and create a modular, responsive IT landscape aligned with business needs. Through its "Velcro architecture" and public cloud solution, Ardent Mills achieved a 90% improvement in key performance metrics, simplified its IT landscape, reduced IT costs, and gained capabilities to rapidly adapt to business needs.

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    This document summarizes the journey of Ardent Mills, a flour milling company, to simplify its operations through a digital transformation to a fully public cloud-enabled solution. Key steps in its journey included announcing a joint venture in 2013, selecting its headquarters in 2014, and completing an operational alignment project in 2016. Its goals were to maximize efficiency, reduce costs, innovate products and services through data-driven decisions, and create a modular, responsive IT landscape aligned with business needs. Through its "Velcro architecture" and public cloud solution, Ardent Mills achieved a 90% improvement in key performance metrics, simplified its IT landscape, reduced IT costs, and gained capabilities to rapidly adapt to business needs.

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    Public Cloud Enabled

    Enterprise IT Simplification
    Top Flour Milling & Ingredient Company
    Journey so far..

    March 5, 2013 May 29, 2014 July 2, 2014 March 1, 2016

    Ardent Mills Joint First Day of Headquarter Completion of


    Venture Operation as Selected OAM (One Ardent
    Announcement Ardent Mills Denver, CO Mills) Project
    Business Vision Digital Imperatives

    Create World’s Best Grain Based Solution Company Data-Driven


    Maximize combined assets, capabilities & Decisions
    experience of both parents

    Simplification

    Bring innovation at marketplace


    Innovative flour & grain products, services,
    solutions to the marketplace
    Responsive
    Business Processes

    Create solutions right-sized to the mission


    Reduce costs& overhead; Eliminate unnecessary Real Time
    structures & activities Enterprise
    Solution Ideation
    Transition
    Considerations

    Technology
    Considerations
    System Incubation of Digital
    Design Solution

    Infrastructure
    Assessment Business-Led
    Decisions

    ti on s
    gra tion
    e
    Int idera Governance
    Si mpl i ficati on Cons Considerations
    Digital Tenets of One Ardent Mills Solution

    100% Public Loosely Coupled


    Cloud Enabled Tightly Integrated
    Solution with on- Velcro
    demand IS Architecture
    Enterprise
    scalability (SaaS/IaaS)
    Transformation
    No Data Center Modular & More
    or Real Estate Responsive to
    Cost Change

    Rationalized Self Serve Data


    Scientific &
    Landscape Analytics
    Automated Trade,
    Entities Data Driven
    Commodity &
    Application Insights, Decision
    Manufacturing Env.
    Infrastructure Making, and
    Help manage
    Data Automation
    market fluctuations
    Velcro architecture “Loosely Coupled -Tightly Integrated”

    Contract Market Customer


    Management Mill Feed Based Management
    Costing

    Backbone including Core Finance

    Mill
    RQT Risk Transportation
    Ops

    Velcro Architecture
    More Modular, Loosely Coupled, More Responsive to Change
    Simplified Organization aligned with Lean IT Ecosystem

    Market Business Growth and


    Contract Based Customer
    Mgmt
    Mill Feed
    Mgmt Customer Expansion
    Costing
    Future Planning and
    Backbone Navigation
    RQT Risk Operations Transportation Customer Experience
    Management

    Strategy and Relationship


    Velcro Operations Backbone Administration
    Accountability Service Delivery

    One Cared For Team - Guided By Ardent Mills Values - Business Aligned - Second to None
    Business Impact of One Ardent Digital Solution

    Over 475,000 transactions


    90% improvement in Finished Simplified IT landscape
    executed successfully per
    Products KPI Reduced from 360+
    week with success rate of
    60 vs 600 errors yearly applications to 37
    99.98%

    Rapid on-board / off-board & Business Agility &


    100% Public Cloud enabled
    faster time to market “Best- Digitization supported by IT
    Double Digit reduction in IT
    in-Class” Applications for systems
    Opex. No overhead and real
    Business Functions based on Improved synergies and
    estate cost
    Velcro Architecture reduced business risks
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