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InterSystems Data Platform for Rapid Development, Data Integration, and Flexibility in the Supply Chain

Optimizing the Supply Chain

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CUSTOMERS: CFAO, MSC, Paltac Corporation, SPAR Austria, Chess Logistics Technology, Chadwicks Group, Murata Machinery, awinta GmbH, snext

CHALLENGE: Data and application silos, complex partner ecosystems, and periodic market disruptions make it challenging to achieve an optimized supply chain.

OUTCOME: InterSystems technology improves business results by enabling better decision-making; creating streamlined, data-driven, end-to-end processes; and providing accurate real-time visibility and traceability across their supply chains.

Organizations recognize the importance of an optimized supply chain to business success, but data and application silos, complex partner ecosystems, and periodic market disruptions make it challenging to achieve in practice.

Supply chain executives worldwide rely on InterSystems technology to improve business results by enabling better decision-making; creating streamlined, data-driven, end-to-end processes; and providing accurate real-time visibility and traceability across their supply chains.

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InterSystems data platform is next-generation data management software that complements your existing data and application infrastructure with rich database management, integration, API management, and analytics capabilities to provide better decision-making capabilities and deliver business outcomes, including:
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Supply-chain visibility
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Demand forecasting
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Inventory optimization
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Pricing optimization
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Staffing optimization

How InterSystems Data Platform Optimizes the Supply Chain

  • Simplifies development by providing all the integration, database management, and analytics capabilities you need to expedite a wide variety of supply chain initiatives
  • Eliminates the need to rip and replace by complementing existing infrastructure. It integrates and connects applications and data silos
  • Makes you more agile: you can deliver flexible and customizable applications that adapt to changes in networks and process flows
  • Delivers a quick return on your investment with rapid development, lower total cost of ownership, and reduced maintenance
  • Gives you flexible deployment options by supporting on-premises, cloud-agnostic, hybrid, and multi-cloud development environments and by providing native support for containers

Customer Success Stories

CFAO: Supply Chain Visibility & Optimization
CFAO, a €4.2-billion ($5.1-billion), French, third-party logistics provider with business in 36 African countries and seven French overseas territories

CHALLENGE Address multiple data management challenges spanning real-time, supply chain visibility; customer experience; e-commerce; and support for brick-and-mortar shopping malls

OUTCOME
  • Unified commerce
  • 360-degree view of customers for better buying experience
  • New revenue channels created from data intelligence
  • Interoperability among existing applications and systems
  • IT seen as contributor to company success

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MSC: Optimized Visibility and Inventory Planning Insight
MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company), a world leader in container shipping with a fleet of 537 vessels and more than 70,000 staff members operating in 155 countries

CHALLENGE
Manage, process, and validate large volumes of data in real time and make it available to stakeholders, including customers, via a web-based track-and-trace tool

OUTCOME
  • Interoperability among systems of many providers and agencies
  • Tracking of more than one billion shipping container movements
  • Processing of 400,000 container movements per day in real time
  • Optimized IT infrastructure
  • MSC system solutions hosted on cloud
  • Enable optimized inventory planning for customers

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Paltac Corporation: Digital Transformation of Supply Chain
Paltac Corporation, Japan’s largest wholesaler of cosmetics, daily necessities, and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, moving 50,000 items from 1,000 manufacturers to 400 retailers operating 50,000 stores

CHALLENGE
Adopt a next-generation system infrastructure to enable digital transformation that will increase revenues and improve efficiencies

OUTCOME
  • In-store support application, first step in its digital shift, developed in just five months
  • Streamlined customer experience
  • Improved productivity throughout supply chain
  • Increased sales

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SPAR Austria: Inventory Control at Shelf Level
SPAR Austria, a member of SPAR, the world’s largest food retailer consortium, is a €8.3-billion ($9.9-billion) company with more than 1,500 stores in Austria

CHALLENGE
Create an enterprise resource-planning and point-of-shelf system to help local store managers control their inventory

OUTCOME
  • Real-time accurate data ensuring correct movement of stock, inventory, and pending deliveries
  • Flexible scalability for continuous roll-out and growth
  • Improved workforce efficiency and satisfaction
  • Automated weekly demand forecasting for promotions across 1500 stores

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Chess Logistics Technology: Warehouse Management
Chess Logistics Technology, creator of management and logistics computing applications and services in the logistics, food and retail distribution, industrial, and manufacturing sectors. Users include major hospitality, food and grocery supply chain, and food distribution businesses in the United Kingdom.

CHALLENGE
Develop warehouse management systems combining industry best practices with easy-to-enhance functionality

OUTCOME
  • Ability to create sophisticated warehouse management systems rapidly and cost-effectively and tailor them to customer needs
  • Reduced operating costs with improved picking accuracy, productivity, and resource allocation
  • Market-leading throughput, scalability, and reliability
  • Easier analysis, coding, and testing of complex situations and procedures

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Chadwicks Group: Foundation For E-Commerce Platform
Chadwicks Group, Ireland’s leading building supplier and home improvement specialist, operates 50 branches nationwide and employs more than 1,300 people

CHALLENGE
Transform e-commerce capabilities and develop innovative newservices

OUTCOME
  • Cloud-first ecosystem with seamless flow of data
  • Increased customer interaction
  • Rapid development of new services
  • Real-time reporting and analysis
  • High-speed, high-volume data processing
  • Agility to adapt to emerging opportunities

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Murata Machinery: Logistics Optimization
Murata Machinery, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of logistics automation solutions that combine a variety of automated material handling equipment, robotics, and IoT

CHALLENGE
Implement a foundational data platform capable of high-speed transaction processing and integration of data from multiple systems, including supply chain optimization, equipment-maintenance, shipping, and IoT systems

OUTCOME
  • Optimization of shipping operations resulting from integration of warehouse-management and associated systems, such as loading systems
  • Stable operation and high-speed processing of material-handling system equipment
  • Preventive and predictive maintenance enabled by collection and analysis of real-time raw data from material handling equipment

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awinta GmbH: Containers & Devops
awinta GmbH, market leader for pharmacy software in Germany with 700 supported users

CHALLENGE
Enable cross-site, continuous development and easy deployment of pharmacy software

OUTCOME
  • Native support for container technologies enables fast version changes
  • Shorter release cycles
  • Simple and efficient deployment of new features
  • Shorter update times for customers

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snext: Supply Chain Applications
snext is a technology company offering SaaS for supply chain applications

CHALLENGE
Deploy foundational data platform to enable fast development and deployment while integrating and normalizing data from multiple sources

OUTCOME
  • Accelerated and simplified development, deployment, and maintenance of next-generation supply chain SaaS offerings for product categorization, inventory control, and demand monitoring
  • Ability to work with users’ existing systems
  • Integration of data from fragmented systems
  • Scalability

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D’autres Retours d’Expérience Réussie qui pourraient vous intéresser

SPAR Autriche, basé à Salzbourg et membre de SPAR, le plus grand consortium de distribution alimentaire au monde, est une entreprise de 4 milliards d’euros qui compte plus de 800 points de vente et 600 commerçants SPAR en Autriche. L’enseigne souhaitait mettre en place un système de planification des ressources d’entreprise (Enterprise Resource Planning – ERP) de bout en bout et de point de vente (pointof-sale – POS) permettant d’aider les directeurs de magasins à contrôler leur stock. Après avoir étudié attentivement les différentes options, SPAR Autriche a décidé d’implémenter IMAge (Integrated Management Application for Grocery Enterprises), une solution basée sur la plateforme de données d’InterSystems.
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) est la deuxième société de transport maritime au monde. Sa flotte de navires transporte chaque année plus de 12 millions de conteneurs, manutentionnés dans près de 270 ports. La gestion de ces flux de conteneurs et des processus associés est complexe. Elle est affectée par des situations incontrôlables (météo, grèves, etc.) et génère d’immenses quantités de données et d’informations : certificats d’origine, documents de propriété des biens, lettres de transport, bordereaux de connaissement, factures commerciales et douanières, bordereaux d’expédition, pour ne citer que quelques exemples. Le système informatique central de MSC, basé à Genève, doit traiter et valider électroniquement plus de 300 000 transactions par jour. MSC s’est fixé l’objectif de pouvoir traiter ces énormes quantités d’informations en temps réel afin que les clients puissent suivre l’état de leur fret sur le Web, à l’aide de l’outil de suivi "Tracking and Tracing".
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