Transforming Peru's Poultry Leader
San Fernando, Peru's largest poultry producer with over 75 years of industry leadership, successfully transformed its IT infrastructure through a comprehensive migration to AWS cloud. Working with skie, the company modernized its SAP platform, established a cloud-native data platform, and migrated mission-critical business applications to the cloud.
Explore the Case StudyAbout San Fernando
Founded in 1948, San Fernando has grown from a small family business to become Peru's largest and most trusted poultry producer. With thousands of employees and a significant share of the Peruvian market, San Fernando produces millions of chickens annually, along with turkey, pork, eggs, and processed products. The company maintains complete vertical integration, from feed production and breeding operations to processing and distribution, serving millions of Peruvian families daily with high-quality protein products.
As one of Latin America's leading food producers, San Fernando's operations encompass hatcheries, feed mills, farms, processing facilities, and distribution centers throughout Peru. The company's commitment to quality, food safety, and operational excellence has made it a recognized brand and a pillar of food security in Peru.
Customer Challenge
As San Fernando's business grew and diversified, its on-premises IT infrastructure became increasingly complex and expensive to maintain. The company faced several critical challenges:
Infrastructure Limitations
The legacy infrastructure was struggling to support expanding operations and growing data requirements, with performance bottlenecks impacting business-critical applications during peak production periods.
SAP System Restrictions
The SAP system was nearing its end of support and lacked the capabilities required for modern business processes, creating risks to business continuity.
Limited Data and Analytics Silos
Business intelligence workloads were isolated from other data sources, limiting comprehensive insights across operations.
Security and Compliance Concerns
Complying with stringent regulations on food safety, finance, and data privacy required more sophisticated security controls than the local environment could efficiently provide.
Scalability Restrictions
Seasonal fluctuations in the poultry industry required rapid scaling capabilities that the fixed infrastructure could not cost-effectively accommodate.
The Transformation Strategy
skie partnered with San Fernando to design and execute a comprehensive cloud transformation program, migrating its entire IT infrastructure to AWS while simultaneously upgrading critical systems and establishing a modern data platform.
Migration Strategy
The project began with a comprehensive assessment of San Fernando's application portfolio and infrastructure dependencies. This informed a phased migration strategy that combined multiple approaches based on the specific needs and criticality of each workload to the business.
SAP Landscape Transformation
The core ERP system was upgraded to the latest supported version while migrating to AWS infrastructure optimized for SAP workloads. The underlying database platform was modernized and optimized for cloud infrastructure, with a resilient and scalable architecture ensuring high availability and performance.
Infrastructure Migration
Non-SAP applications were migrated using AWS best practices and tools, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining business continuity throughout the transition.
Computing and Storage
Infrastructure optimized for SAP and enterprise workloads with high-performance storage solutions selected according to workload requirements. Object storage serves as the foundation for the data lake and long-term archive.
Networks and Security
Private network architecture with security controls that enforce least privilege access, role-based access control with multi-factor authentication, and automated patch and operational task management.
Monitoring and Operations
Comprehensive monitoring with customized dashboards and proactive alerts, complete audit trails for security and compliance, centralized security monitoring and threat detection, and continuous analysis of network traffic and system activity.
Data and Analysis
Modern data warehouse with auto-scaling capabilities, serverless data processing and integration, and intelligent data lifecycle management for cost optimization.
Results and Benefits
The migration delivered transformational benefits in technology, operations, and business results:
Technical Achievements
- Successfully migrated all critical applications and infrastructure in less than a year without data loss
- SAP systems updated to currently supported versions
- Achieved enterprise-level availability for production systems
- Significant improvement in application response times
- Analytics queries running several times faster than legacy systems
Operational Benefits
- Comprehensive security controls that meet food safety and financial compliance requirements
- 24/7 monitoring with automated alerts and incident management
- Dramatic reduction in the time required to resolve infrastructure problems
- Substantial reduction in ongoing operating expenses through cloud optimization
Business Impact
The new data platform and analytics capabilities have democratized access to data in San Fernando, enabling:
- Production teams to optimize operations and improve performance
- Supply chain leaders to improve inventory management and reduce waste
- Financial analysts to generate real-time profitability information
- Quality assurance teams to proactively identify trends and prevent problems
Key Achievement
Conclusion
San Fernando's migration to AWS demonstrates how a well-executed cloud transformation can simultaneously modernize infrastructure, upgrade critical systems, and establish new capabilities that drive business value. By partnering with experienced cloud specialists who understood both AWS best practices and SAP's business requirements, San Fernando achieved a complex transformation while maintaining business operations.
The result is a modern, secure, and scalable IT foundation that not only meets today's operational needs but also positions San Fernando for continued innovation and growth in Peru's dynamic food production industry. The cloud-native data platform has fundamentally changed how the company leverages data for decision-making, while the modernized SAP landscape provides the capabilities needed to support business processes for years to come.
For food production and manufacturing companies considering migrating to the cloud, San Fernando's journey illustrates the transformational potential of a comprehensive and well-executed AWS cloud strategy.