What does a 116-year-old almond cooperative and cutting-edge enterprise AI have in common? More than you'd expect. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge podcast, host Mark Vigoroso sits down with Steven Birgfeld, VP of Information Technology and Services at Blue Diamond Growers - the iconic brand behind Almond Breeze and those ubiquitous snack nuts - for a rare, candid look at enterprise transformation from the practitioner's seat. Steve pulls back the curtain on how one of America's most storied agricultural cooperatives, owned by nearly 3,000 California almond growers, is navigating its way through a full SAP ecosystem - S/4HANA Rise Private Cloud, IBP, BTP, and the newly adoptedBusiness Data Cloud - while simultaneously experimenting with embedded and agentic AI to revolutionize synchronized supply planning, crop forecasting, and manufacturing yield optimization. Steve shares how their marketing team issaving six figures per campaign using generative AI to identify the next trending global almond flavor, why a promising 20-year-dataset AI crop forecasting model ultimately couldn't outsmart Mother Nature, and how their CFO is redefining his team as data scientists rather than reporters of financialnews. If you've heard enough AI vision-casting from vendors, this is the episode you've been waiting for - a grounded, ROI-guided, value-first perspective from an enterprise tech leader in the trenches… or the orchards! Stream it now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!