EMDA delivers successful ERP migration for leading agricultural equipment manufacturer

May 2026  ·  8 min read

EMDA, Infor’s Partner of the Year 2025, is proud to announce the successful go-live of Infor CloudSuite Industrial (CSI) across BA Pumps & Sprayers’ Cambridge, New Zealand and Geelong, Australia operations – marking the completion of a significant business transformation for one of Australasia’s leading agricultural spraying equipment manufacturers.

The project replaces a legacy Infor Streamline platform that had been in operation for over 20 years and had reached end of life. With both the New Zealand and Australian businesses now running on a single, modern cloud-based ERP, BA Pumps & Sprayers has the foundation it needs to operate more efficiently, scale with confidence and bring its two trans-Tasman operations into alignment.

A complex migration, successfully delivered 

The implementation presented a number of unique challenges reflective of BA Pumps & Sprayers’ specialist manufacturing environment. The business produces a highly configurable range of spraying equipment for the agriculture, horticulture and viticulture sectors, with products featuring base configurations, standard upgrade options and bespoke customer-specified componentry – all requiring robust configure-to-order and make-to-order capability within the new system.

The Cambridge site also operates a steel fabrication function, managing multi-stage production processes including material preparation, welding assembly and subcontracted surface coating – all of which required careful mapping and integration into CloudSuite Industrial’s manufacturing and shop floor control modules.

Coordinating the go-live across two countries, with separate legal entities, warehouse operations and work centre structures, required meticulous planning and close collaboration between the EMDA project team and the BA Pumps & Sprayers business across both sites.

Benefits already being realised

With both sites now live, BA Pumps & Sprayers is already experiencing the tangible improvements that motivated the project from the outset. Key benefits achieved include:

• A single source of truth across the New Zealand and Australian businesses, replacing disconnected systems and manual reconciliation processes
• Transformation of paper-based workflows across production, warehousing and administration, with digital processes now embedded directly within the ERP
• Improved production visibility through integrated shop floor control, giving operations teams real-time status across fabrication, assembly and subcontracted processes
• Streamlined inventory management across the Cambridge, Victoria and Queensland warehouses, with accurate stock visibility supporting better purchasing and production planning decisions.
• Improved Financial visibility across all sites, AR & AP etc. enabling for data and information at hand for key business decision making.
• Improved job allocation and scheduling, augmenting the previous Trello-based process with native ERP workflow and work centre management
• Process alignment across NZ and AU, ensuring both businesses operate from consistent procedures and share a unified data structure
• Reduced administration and data entry through automation of previously manual steps across ordering, production and fulfilment
• A platform ready for future growth, including the planned dealer portal for online parts ordering and further integration with HubSpot CRM

Looking ahead

For BA Pumps & Sprayers, go-live is not the end of the journey – it is the beginning of a new chapter. The business now has a modern, cloud-based platform that will grow with it, support its expanding product range and enable continuous improvement across its operations.

Mark Harris, General Manager of BA Pumps and Sprayers said, “Moving to CloudSuite ERP has been a transformational change for BA Pumps and Sprayers. While the change has been a lot of work and very challenging for our people, we now have our operations running far better and the future opportunities for the company to improve are exciting. Now into our 2nd season on the new platform our team is in a great space, confident in their ability to meet customer commitments and rise to the opportunities ahead.”

Cam Spear, Strategic Relationships Director at EMDA, commented, “The BA Pumps & Sprayers team committed fully to this project and that commitment is reflected in the quality of the outcome. Migrating from a long-standing legacy platform is never straightforward, and doing so across two countries in relatively quick succession makes it more complex still. The team at BAPS approached every challenge with professionalism and pragmatism, and we couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve achieved together.”

“This go-live marks the start of something, not the finish. There is significant opportunity ahead to build on what’s already in place – from enhanced reporting and forecasting through to the dealer portal and deeper CRM integration. EMDA will be right alongside the BA Pumps & Sprayers team as they continue to grow and get more from their investment in CloudSuite Industrial.”

EMDA extends its warmest congratulations to the entire BA Pumps & Sprayers team across Cambridge and Geelong on this significant milestone, and looks forward to a long and successful partnership ahead.