Partner of Choice for a Leading Swedish Oil Manufacturing Company for Setting Up its Integration Competency Center

Client

The client is a European manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen products having sales offices in more than 30 countries and a global distribution network with 60 storage depots. 

Challenges

• Eliminate point-to-point integration.
• Providing loose-coupling agility and a high degree of reusability.
• IT focus on a common information model and industry semantics implementation. 
• Reduce/eliminate manual work by automating the information exchange between applications. 
• Improve the information exchange speed with no loss of information.
• Standards-based approach adhering to a process-driven enterprise.
• Flexible business processes and an enabler for a strong governance process. 

LTM Solution

• Setup Integration Competency  Center (ICC), comprising of a Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Developers, Administrators, and Support team members 
• Devised Integration Landscape strategy for the client.
• Defined Integration patterns, best practices, principles and policies.
• Development and transition to the new Cloud-based Integration Platform.
• Developed several Integrations between ERP, CRM, depots, refinery applications, third-party, banks, etc.
• Robust fault handling and error management framework. 
• End-to-End Integration Monitoring Solution.
• Provided standard fixes, workarounds, reports, and validation with reproducible problems related to the scope of the solution.

Business Benefits

• > 100% faster time-to-market – with accelerated onboarding of third-party facilities, visibility of global inventory for supply and logistics planning, automated reconciliations, and interactive settlements over the integrated platform.
• Reduction of IT costs by 40% with complete elimination of Distributed Data Processing issues, reduced monitoring and maintenance, reduction in issues relating to Masters, ready capacity for additional processing, homogenous reports, and MIS.
• Improved overall process efficiency by up to 50% by integrating several systems and processes.
• Reduced carbon footprints by integrating with B2B channels for Invoices.
• Reduced manual efforts by 30% through integrations and end-to-end monitoring solution.
• Improved speed of information exchange with guaranteed data delivery.