Wholesale & Distribution

CJ Freshway

About Us

The company is a specialized enterprise that provides food ing redient distribution, group catering services, and related services such as food safety, logistics, education, and consulting under the slogan “Food Business Partner Creating the Success Way.” Additionally, as part of its digital transformation efforts to secure outstanding capabilities, it is engaged in various business activities.

Challenge

  • There was a need for countermeasures against unpredictable external environments such as COVID-19 and rapidly changing markets, and for creating an environment to accommodate business requirements from the field.
  • Online-based platform companies are entering the market, breaking down the boundaries of B2B businesses, and transforming into e-commerce companies by well-funded distribution conglomerates.
  • Limitations of cost reduction and IT resource expansion in on-premises environments, as well as difficulties in testing and implementing new technologies such as AI/ML.

Our Role

  • Diagnosis of IT infrastructure improvement for All-in-Cloud
  • Design and configuration of application and database transition, including infra resources
  • Transition of enterprise systems to Open Source and Container-based architecture
  • Transition from Oracle Exadata to Oracle RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL
  • Design and configuration of CI/CD environment using AWS CodeSeries
  • Provision of Managed Services

Outcomes

Cost reduction

  • Reduction of high-cost items such as Oracle and WebLogic with the conversion to open-source
  • Continuous optimization of infrastructure resources for cost reduction after the open service
  • Improvement of cost management through standardization of configurations

Performance improvement

  • Single-order management service transition resulted in approximately 38% speed improvement
  • SAP inventory service saw an average speed improvement of 55% after transition

Employee satisfaction improvement

  • 75% of survey respondents reported experiencing improved response speed
  • Increased satisfaction of CJ Freshway customers

After the conversion to Cloud, it is possible to flexibly cope with the growth of monthly sales.

  • Although monthly order volumes have been increasing since the Cloud conversion, flexible architecture has contributed to business growth without major issues.