National foodservice distributor with 80+ years and 850+ delivery vehicles across Australia
PFD Food Services is a large-scale logistics and distribution operation built on legacy Windows + OpenEdge + Progress 4GL infrastructure, now actively migrating toward cloud (Azure, AWS) and modernizing core systems. Active projects span ERP-Salesforce-Informatica integration, Dayforce HCM rollout, fleet optimization, and service desk automation—a hiring acceleration across operations and engineering roles signals simultaneous infrastructure refresh and operational efficiency push. Pain-point clustering around QA digitization, fleet longevity, and smarter routing reveals a company addressing fragmentation across 70+ sites and legacy system brittleness.
PFD Food Services delivers fresh, frozen, and dry goods plus non-food supplies (paper, cleaning) to restaurants, cafes, hospitals, schools, pubs, clubs, and airlines across Australia. The company operates over 850 purpose-built delivery vehicles from 70+ strategically located sites, with a workforce between 1,001 and 5,000 employees. Founded in 1943, PFD combines established market presence with emerging digital transformation: they offer online ordering and next-day delivery, and are currently implementing modern cloud infrastructure, unified CRM-to-ERP pipelines, and contemporary HR systems to support scale.
Core stack: Windows, Microsoft 365, OpenEdge, Progress 4GL, Salesforce, Informatica, Manhattan WMS. Infrastructure: AWS RDS, VMware ESXi, Azure AD, Active Directory. Currently adopting Dayforce, Azure, and AWS for modernization.
Active projects: ERP-Salesforce-Informatica integration, Dayforce HCM implementation, smarter routing, fleet longevity improvement, service desk automation, QA digitization, cloud migration to Azure/AWS, and compliance system alignment across 70+ sites.
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