⚠︎ ILLUSTRATIVE DEMONSTRATION — built by Chris Clark, an external CIO candidate, from public information. Company and sponsor anonymized. All figures fictional. Project Meridian is a fictional program codename.
Project Meridian · Ingredients BU Control TowerSAP S/4HANA · DATA · AI
On trackWatchAt riskCarve-out: ParentCo → a private equity sponsor (illustrative carve-out; figures fictional)

Executive Brief — operations, 60-second read

Service headline

where we are

OTIF 93.8% against a 94.5% target, with forecast error down to 12.4% after the AI pilot. One product line at risk (soy protein, Plant Central); the rest of the portfolio is in band.

Biggest operational risk

watch

Soy protein line SL-2 is slowing — ~410 cases at risk this week — and the pectin buffer at Plant EU-2 is down to 3.5 days. Owners paged.

Decision needed

ask

Approve overtime on SL-2 and pull emulsifier volume forward from Plant EU-1 to protect the bakery commitment. Net margin impact is positive.

Operations at a glance

service · forecast · inventory · capacity

This shift

focus items
Value protected this week
$128,400
Live estimate from the two production AI agents (utilization, expediting, forecast accuracy). Illustrative and updating.
LIVE

Ask Meridian — ask the control tower anything

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Ask a question above, or type your own. Meridian answers from the (illustrative) numbers across every tab.

Value Case — value creation for the Sponsor

Run-rate value bridge

Five owned levers → ~$45M · $M

IT cost

Separated base → optimized
$118M
today, separated base
→
$95M
Meridian target run-rate
App rationalization 210→140, single S/4HANA instance, footprint consolidation.

Levers → workstream → KPI

Each lever owned in Project Meridian
LeverOwner workstreamRun-rateStage-gate KPI

KPIs · Briefing — vs targets

KPIActualTargetTrend (12)Status

Overview — standalone readiness

Day-1 Readiness

8 workstreams
78%
target 100% by cutover −30d

TSA Services

to exit from ParentCo
34
12 at risk · 9 exited

Applications

separate · replace · retire
210→140
70 retired · 48 replaced

IT run-rate

illustrative
$118M
target $95M optimized

Day-1 readiness by workstream

percent complete

Separation — TSA exit & application heatmap

TSA Exit Tracker

service towers exiting ParentCo
Service towerProviderCost/moExitStatus

Application separation

disposition × complexity (count)

Flows — raw material to customer

Illustrative value chain · daily tonnage
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Plant Floor — network status

Plant network

illustrative site status

Line control room

live line status

Schedule — cutover & TSA-exit milestones

SKU 360 — product-line portfolio

Product lineLead brandOTIFMAPEDOHCases at riskTrend

OTIF 360 — service performance

OTIF Composite

30-day
93.8%
target 94.5%

Forecast MAPE

30-day
12.4%
▼ 1.1 pt after AI pilot

Inventory Accuracy

cycle count
97.1%
▲ 0.4 pt

Cases at risk

next 7 days
1,000
soy protein weighted

OTIF by customer

top accounts

OTIF vs forecast trend

12 weeks

Commitments — customer service obligations

CustomerSegmentWkly volumeOTIFFee at riskStatus

External — market & commodity signals

Commodity & input signals

illustrative

Signal feed

market & regulatory

Disruptions — active & auto-flagged

PPM Control Tower — Project Meridian program

Single-instance SAP S/4HANA + cloud data platform + AI agent layer + cybersecurity · SteerCo bi-weekly to BU CFO & the Sponsor operating partner
Program Budget
$95.0M
AC $34.2M · 36%
Schedule (SPI)
0.96
EV $31.8M / PV $33.0M
Cost (CPI)
0.93
EV $31.8M / AC $34.2M
Stage Gate
Gate 2
Activate · conditional

Phase Roadmap

0 Mobilize → 4 Sustain

Portfolio Health

workstreams by RAG

Overall RAG

program health this cycle
A
Amber — schedule and cost slightly behind (ERP, AI); mitigations in flight.

Sprint Velocity

delivered points · last 6

Resource & Capacity

squad utilization

24-Month Roadmap — SAP S/4HANA & AI

Jul 2026 → Jun 2028 (illustrative)

Status by workstream

percent complete · phase · RAG
Workstream% completePhaseRAG

Critical Path

longest-pole activities to standalone go-live
ActivityDepends onFloat (d)Status

EVM by Workstream

PV / EV / AC · $M
WorkstreamPVEVACSPICPIRAG

SPI / CPI trend

last 12 periods
SPICPI

Phase Burn-Down

open story points · Phase 2

Cumulative Spend vs Budget

burn projection · EAC ~$98M

Budget by phase

plan vs actual · $M
PhaseBudgetActualStatus

KPI incentive pool vs stage-gate targets

pay-for-performance triggers

Decisions

made vs required

RAID Log

top items this cycle
TypeItemOwnerSev

Stage-Gate Posture

Gate 2 · close-out criteria

Risk Heat Map

likelihood × impact (count of risks)

Release & Cutover Schedule

major releases to standalone go-live
ReleaseScopeWindowStatus

Deliverable Schedule

key deliverables · owner · due
DeliverableOwnerDueStatus

Quick Wins Queued

value now, ahead of go-live
Quick winValueStatus

Org Change & Adoption

change-readiness index by function

Statement of Work — scope summary

Project Meridian · fixed-scope program

Objective: separate the Ingredients BU business from ParentCo and stand up an independent technology estate on SAP S/4HANA, a cloud data platform and governed AI, exiting all TSAs by Q2 2028.

In scope: TSA exit, Day-1 readiness, ERP build & cutover, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data & AI platform, application rationalization (210→140) and organizational change.

Out of scope: product-formulation systems retained under TSA beyond 2028, and post-close M&A integrations.

Commercials: ~$95M program on pay-for-performance stage gates, SteerCo governance to the BU CFO and the Sponsor operating partner.

Scenarios — model the build

Levers

move the sliders · outputs recompute (illustrative)

Modeled Outcome

vs baseline standalone plan
Run-rate value
$45M
IT cost
$95M
Separation risk
Med
Time-to-standalone
~14 months to full TSA exit

Changes — what the tower updated

Project Meridian · Control Room

LIVE
Day-1 Readiness
78%
to cutover −30d
TSA exited
9/34
12 at risk
Live disruptions
Program SPI
0.96
CPI 0.93 · EAC $98M
Value protected · wk
$128,400
AI agents running
OTIF (30d)
93.8%
target 94.5%
Forecast MAPE
12.4%
▼ improving