Founded in 1949, Refinaria Nacional de Sal S/A manufactures Cisne and Clipper salt brands. The company is known for its investment in innovative technologies and its strict adherence to quality controls that ensure products with a high degree of purity, thanks to its own laboratory facilities for physicochemical and microbiological analyses.

Each month, Refinaria Nacional de Sal produces 20,000 tons of salt used in food products, hemodialysis solution, textiles, canned goods, paper, cosmetics, paints, pharmaceuticals, photographic film, dyes, adhesives, and explosives.

Challenges
- Replace a 20-year-old enterprise resource management (ERP) system to automate and integrate the salt refinery’s financial, production, and distribution processes
- Increase data security by eliminating manual data entry
- Automate salt-production quality control and consolidate analysis data, enabling the manufacturing department to gather information more quickly and accelerate the release of suitable salt lots from the company’s inventory
- Provide quick and precise tax, financial, and commercial information to help managers monitor progress towards business goals