Sorbent minerals manufacturer for pet care, agriculture, and industrial fluids
Oil-Dri manufactures sorbent minerals across pet care, agriculture, animal health, and industrial applications. The tech stack is operationally mature—JD Edwards, SAP, Oracle, Workiva, OneStream—reflecting a vertically integrated manufacturer managing supply chain, production, and financial consolidation at scale. Active hiring is manufacturing-heavy, with concurrent projects in autonomous maintenance, production scaling, and financial process automation, suggesting investment in both plant modernization and cost control.
Oil-Dri is a public, vertically integrated sorbent minerals manufacturer founded in 1941 and headquartered in Chicago. The company produces cat litter, animal gut health products, crop and horticulture amendments, fluid purification media, sports field products, and industrial absorbents. With 501–1,000 employees across manufacturing, operations, maintenance, engineering, and logistics, Oil-Dri operates multiple production facilities and maintains direct control over research, supply chain, and sales. The organization is family-controlled, with third-generation CEO leadership.
Core systems include JD Edwards, SAP, Oracle, Workiva, OneStream, and Salesforce. Analytics: Power BI, Tableau. HR: Dayforce. Finance: Blackline, Sage Fixed Assets. Operations rely on PLC and Allen-Bradley industrial controls.
Key projects: autonomous maintenance programs, scaling new products from lab to production, financial process automation (consolidated reporting, close checklists), and plant equipment optimization to reduce costs and improve mining efficiencies.
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