CPG manufacturing line at a packaged foods facility

For Conagra Brands · SAP EAM & Maintenance Modernization

Reliable production across 40+ facilities starts with reliable maintenance execution.

Conagra runs more than 40 manufacturing facilities across six countries, 70+ brands, and a portfolio that depends on uptime. The system is in place. The question is whether the operating model around it is structured for consistency, visibility, and scale.

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40+

Manufacturing facilities across six countries

$11.6B

Revenue tied to uptime in frozen, refrigerated, grocery, snacks

70+

Iconic brands depending on consistent execution

Why Enterprise Asset Management for Conagra Brands

Enterprise Asset Management is not just a maintenance system project. For a portfolio the size of Conagra, it is an operational performance initiative that directly affects uptime, brand fill rates, working capital, and the ability to standardize execution across Healthy Choice, Marie Callender's, Slim Jim, Hunt's, Birds Eye, Reddi-wip, and dozens more lines.

Where the Gaps Are Costing You

Two structural problems that cap your reliability ceiling at scale.

Conagra's maintenance teams are not failing because they lack effort. At 40+ sites with mixed frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable operations, the operating model has to be structured for consistency, visibility, and scale. That is where most gaps live.

Inconsistent Maintenance Execution Across Sites

Across 40+ plants spanning Grocery & Snacks, Refrigerated & Frozen, International, and Foodservice, maintenance execution varies. Visibility into cost, effort, downtime, and performance is uneven. Weak planning and scheduling discipline drives unplanned downtime. What works in one plant rarely transfers to the next.

IndX Value

Start with a structured global asset reliability and maintenance maturity assessment across a representative slice of Conagra sites. Define current-state challenges, requirements, quick wins, and a scalable roadmap connecting planning, scheduling, mobility, and SAP PM into one operating model.

Global Standardization vs. Site-Level Reality

Multi-country manufacturers struggle to harmonize maintenance standards without disrupting operations. Asset management gets neglected or deprioritized during larger SAP or S/4 transformation programs. Corporate requirements and site-level operational realities pull in different directions with no framework to reconcile them.

IndX Value

Standardize maintenance execution using SAP PM, resource scheduling, and mobile maintenance. Align corporate standards with the operational reality of frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable plants. Build the foundation for predictive maintenance, APM, BTP, and clean-core modernization.

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Proven At Scale

IndX's Asset Management practice has helped global manufacturers like Dr. Oetker save millions per year in identified site savings by implementing SAP EAM with a structured maintenance operating model.

Start Here: Global Asset Reliability Assessment

Before you modernize 40+ plants, know where you actually stand.

The IndX Global Asset Reliability Assessment gives Conagra a structured view of maintenance maturity across sites. It identifies the gaps between current execution and a scalable, reliable maintenance operating model that holds up across frozen, refrigerated, and shelf-stable production.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Maturity

Evaluate how work is planned, prioritized, and scheduled across sites. Identify where reactive work dominates and where preventive disciplines are not embedded in daily execution on high-throughput packaging and processing lines.

SAP PM and EAM Configuration Review

Assess how SAP Plant Maintenance is configured and used across Conagra's environment. Identify underused capabilities, data quality gaps, and misalignment between system setup and the actual workflows on the plant floor.

Mobile and Scheduling Adoption

Review the current state of SAP Service and Asset Manager deployment, resource scheduling integration, and shop floor mobility. Identify barriers to adoption and execution consistency across mixed temperature-controlled environments.

Reliability Strategy and KPI Visibility

Evaluate whether reliability strategies exist for critical assets, whether KPIs are tracked consistently, and whether maintenance performance data drives decisions at the plant, segment, and corporate level.

What Conagra gets from the assessment

A structured maturity scorecard across selected sites. A clear view of the gaps between current state and a scalable maintenance operating model. Prioritized quick wins, and a phased roadmap for SAP PM, scheduling, mobility, and reliability program development that can scale from pilot plants to the full 40+ footprint.

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Proven With Global Food Manufacturers

From an SAP cost line item to a board-level business case.

IndX's Asset Management practice has helped global food and beverage manufacturers, including Dr. Oetker, identify millions per year in site savings by turning SAP EAM from an IT cost discussion into a structured, multi-year business transformation.

Assessment to Pilot, Not Assessment to Report

Structured reliability assessments that move from current-state diagnosis into a live pilot site, in a focused engagement window. The output is a running system and trained users, not a recommendation deck.

A Roadmap Leadership Can Fund

Multi-year maintenance maturity roadmaps with clear, sequenced milestones. Site priorities aligned to corporate transformation goals, with quantified savings tied to each phase of the plan.

SAP as a Business Platform, Not an IT System

IndX repositions SAP EAM and IAM as the core platform for reliability, transparency, and maintenance performance. The conversation shifts from cost containment to operational growth.

Ask how IndX would shape the same conversation for Conagra's 40+ plant footprint.

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The IndX Solution Portfolio

Six capabilities that build a scalable maintenance foundation for Conagra.

IndX brings together SAP asset management expertise, reliability best practices, and practical implementation experience to address the operational gaps in CPG and frozen food manufacturing environments.

SAP PM and EAM Implementation

Design and implement SAP Plant Maintenance and Enterprise Asset Management foundations that support consistent execution across sites. Configure work order management, preventive maintenance, functional locations, and equipment hierarchies aligned to your reliability strategy.

SAP PMSAP EAMS/4HANA

Mobile Maintenance Execution

Deploy SAP Service and Asset Manager to put work orders, inspection checklists, measurement points, and asset history in the hands of technicians on the shop floor. Eliminate paper-based execution, improve data quality, and close the loop between planning and field completion.

SAP SAMMobile WOOffline-capable

Resource Scheduling and Planning

Implement structured maintenance planning and scheduling workflows with SAP integration. Enable craft-level scheduling, resource optimization, and backlog management that connects planned work to daily execution on every shift across multi-line plants.

SchedulingBacklog MgmtCraft Planning

Spare Parts and Materials Management

Align spare parts strategy with reliability criticality. Reduce excess inventory for low-risk components while ensuring availability of critical spares for high-throughput packaging and processing lines. Integrate with SAP MM and maintenance planning workflows.

SAP MMCriticalityInventory Opt

Reliability Strategy and Asset Criticality

Define and implement reliability-centered maintenance strategies for critical assets. Develop failure mode libraries, set preventive maintenance task lists, and create the asset criticality framework that prioritizes maintenance resources where they matter most to brand fill rate and customer service.

RCMCriticalityPM Task Lists

CMMS Roadmap and S/4 Modernization

Define a phased roadmap from current CMMS or SAP ECC state to S/4HANA asset management. Address BTP, clean-core architecture, predictive maintenance integration, and the data and process foundations required to support future APM capabilities at Conagra scale.

S/4HANABTPClean CoreAPM Roadmap

What a Structured Maintenance Foundation Delivers

Operational outcomes that show up on the production schedule.

30-50%

Reduction in unplanned downtime with structured PM and planning execution.

20-35%

Reduction in maintenance overtime through better scheduling and backlog management.

15-25%

Spare parts inventory reduction by aligning stock to criticality and failure patterns.

2-4x

Improvement in preventive vs. reactive maintenance ratio within 12 to 18 months.

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How IndX Works With You

Four phases from maturity gap to operating model.

IndX does not deliver a slide deck and leave. Every engagement moves from assessment through design, implementation, and adoption support. The output is a running maintenance system, not a recommendation document.

Global Asset Reliability Assessment

Structured maturity review across a representative slice of Conagra sites. Covers planning and scheduling discipline, SAP PM configuration, mobile adoption, spare parts strategy, and KPI visibility. Outputs a scorecard and prioritized roadmap.

4-6 Weeks

Operating Model Design

Define the future-state maintenance operating model. Align corporate standards with site-level requirements across frozen, refrigerated, and grocery plants. Design SAP PM process templates, scheduling workflows, mobile scope, and governance.

Design Sprint

SAP Implementation and Pilot Rollout

Configure and deploy SAP PM, Service and Asset Manager, resource scheduling, and supporting capabilities at pilot sites. Migrate data, validate processes, and train planners, schedulers, supervisors, and technicians on the new operating model.

Core Build

Adoption, KPIs, and Multi-Site Scale

Embed the operating model into daily maintenance execution. Establish KPI dashboards, review cadences, and continuous improvement. Scale the validated template across the remaining 40+ Conagra plants and prepare for predictive capabilities.

Sustain + Scale

Asset-Intensive Environments We Know

Built for the production realities Conagra runs every day.

IndX has implemented SAP-based asset management and reliability programs across the segments where unplanned downtime has the highest operational and financial impact, and where temperature, throughput, and brand fill rate cannot be compromised.

Frozen & Refrigerated

Temperature-controlled production where downtime cascades into spoilage and service failures.

Grocery & Snacks

High-throughput shelf-stable lines where preventive discipline drives unit economics.

Packaging & Processing

Multi-line packaging environments where changeover and reliability define brand cost.

International Manufacturing

Multi-country footprints where corporate standards meet local plant realities.

Why IndX for Conagra

SAP expertise plus reliability discipline. Not one without the other.

Most SAP implementers do not understand maintenance operations. Most reliability consultants do not implement SAP. IndX brings both together in one engagement, from assessment through go-live and adoption.

SAP Certified Partner for EAM

Deep implementation expertise across SAP PM, SAP EAM, SAP Service and Asset Manager, resource scheduling, and the S/4HANA and BTP landscape. Not a generalist integrator learning on Conagra's program.

CPG Maintenance Operating Model Expertise

IndX brings structured reliability and maintenance methodology into every SAP engagement, with direct experience in food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods environments. We define the operating model before we configure the system.

Global Multi-Site Rollout Capability

Proven methodology for aligning corporate maintenance standards with site-level operational requirements. A repeatable rollout template that reduces deployment time and cost at each subsequent site without compromising the global standard.

Execution-First Delivery Model

IndX assesses, designs, implements, trains, and supports adoption. We do not hand off a roadmap and disappear. Every engagement ends with a running system, trained users, and a measurable improvement in maintenance execution quality.