it francebelgium italcementi group october 2007 biztalkfor ready mix concretes business

IT FranceBelgiumItalcementi Group October 2007

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IT FranceBelgiumItalcementi Group BizTalk for RMC business - October 2007 2

Summary

Business context

Architecture Global view

Business view

Technical view

Figures (actual / target)

Project status

BizTalk contribution

BizTalk Roadmap


Business context

Boreal project : IS replacement of Ready Mix Concretes business

Activities perimeter Sales Production Distribution

Organisation based on multiple sites and entities 7 administrative areas (France & Belgium) 200 plants About 400 users

Information system based on SAP for Referential Accounting & controlling activities Invoicing


Global view

SAPReferentials:

CustomersSuppliersMaterials

Boreal Hub (National)

Boreal Plant

MasterData

Data

…

…Plant

manager

Sales administrationProduction / Logistics

7 Areas (France & Belgium)

200 Plants

ProductionSales

Distribution

Sales

Distribution

Production

Invoicing

Boreal Plant

Data

Sales

Distribution

Production

BWStatistics

BizTalk

…

…


Sal

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AreasPlantAreas

Business view

Mas

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Mas

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Catalogue(Products & prices)

Catalogue(Products & prices)

CustomersCustomers

Raw materials vendorsRaw materials vendors

Transport & ServicesSuppliers

Transport & ServicesSuppliers

ComponentsComponents

Vehicle fleetVehicle fleet

Procurement(P.O / IGR)

Procurement(P.O / IGR)

Formulas, RecipesFormulas, Recipes

Projects, Estimates,Contracts

Projects, Estimates,Contracts

Raw materials invoiceverification

Raw materials invoiceverification

Invoicing customersInvoicing customers

Product qualityFollow-up

Product qualityFollow-up

Transport & servicesInvoices verificationTransport & servicesInvoices verification

Vehicle operationsFollow up

Vehicle operationsFollow up

ObjectivesQuality of Service

ObjectivesQuality of Service

InventoriesInventories

UnavailabilitiesUnavailabilities

OperationsReporting

OperationsReporting

Sales reportingSales reporting

Production(Prod.order, Batches, DN

Production(Prod.order, Batches, DN

Stat

istic

sSt

atis

tics

Biztalk


Applicative view

SAP

Boreal Plant

Boreal Hub

BW

BizTalk

MSMQ

Boreal Client

Boreal Client

Boreal Client

Boreal Client

Transformation

Boreal PlantBoreal Plant

Boreal Plant

Routing

Administrative users

Productionusers

Reporting users

Supervision ClientSupervision Client


Boreal Plant XXXX

Technical view

SAP

Boreal Hub

Boreal Server

ExportSAP

ImportSAP

ExportBoreal

ImportBoreal

ExportBoreal

ImportBoreal

BizTalk

IDocin

IDoc out

BW

BusComponentsHost

Boreal Client Region

Super.Client Region

SupervisionNationale

Scheduler

Supervision

Scheduler

Bu

sCo

mp

on

entH

ost

Supervision

Boreal Windows

service

AutoUpdate

Supervision

Supervision

.Net Remoting

BDBoreal

Sql Server

BorealXXXX

SupervXXXX


Daily figures

Boreal HubBizTalkTransformation

SAP ImportSAP B

US

ExportSAP

ExportBoreal

ImportBoreal

Boreal Plant

ImportBoreal B

US

ExportBoreal

IDoc

IDoc

BizTalkRouting

33006600

500010000

1500030000

620012400

Actual : ~100 plantsTarget : 200 plants

200 plants


SAP Boreal HUB flows & figures

TARGET

Flowaveragemontly

average daily

average daily

Scheduling Agreement 600 30 60Supplier Invoices flag 16000 800 1600Sales orders invoices flag 45000 2250 4500Component 100 5 10Customer credit 25 1 3Customer/Building Site 5000 250 500Supplier 30 2 3

total 66755 3338 6676

Goods movement 18000 900 1800Purchasing contract 800 40 80Préinvoicing figures 800 40 80Elementary zone 70 4 7Tariff 700 35 70Bill of loading 100000 5000 10000Building site 4000 200 400Lorries 200 10 20Material 260 13 26

total 124830 6242 12483

ACTUAL

SAP=>Boreal

SAP<=Boreal


Project status

Deployment status BizTalk for Boreal operational since 2005

104 plants connected through BizTalk

Target : 200 plants for June 2008

BizTalk environment Started with BizTalk 2002 and MSMQ

Migration done to BizTalk 2006

Foreseen improvements Better tracking of exchanges by end-users and technical people

(CODit BizTalk Dashboard)


BizTalk Contribution for Ready Mix

Business view Better visibility and control of the production :

Administrative people can follow the production status of each plant and be more reactive

Production parameters of each plant are traced back centrally

Data exchanges in real time (new customer, new formula, …) vs one daily exchange in the former application

Less constraints for the business

...

IT view One single application to manage data exchanges (transformation and routing), not only

RMC but also other businesses (cement, aggregates…) instead of several interfaces

Integrated management of disconnected sites (queues…)

Management of sites modification simplified (adding or removing of plant)

Common language for mapping rules between SAP and Boreal

…


SOA Architecture with WCF and BizTalk

Providing a standard way of communicating

Avoiding Point to Point connections and custom coding

Removes intermediate MSMQ storage

Implements reliable messaging

Implements Technical and functional ACK/BACK

Implements END TO END transactions

Providing visibility on the integration errors to the business users


SOA Architecture with WCF and BizTalk

Providing agility to the ItalCementi Group

Easy to add new routing destinations

High availability of the BizTalk environment

Avoiding custom communication protocols for each application

Easy to manage the connections to the applications.


BizTalk Evolution

CimentFrançais has anticipated on the BizTalk 2006 R2 version by

Creating a WCF adapter for BizTalk 2006 which is compatible with the standard BTS 2006 R2 WCF adapter.

The Current BizTalk 2006 environment is fully upgradable (to BizTalk 2006 R2)

BAM Reporting

The average processing time will be reported using BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)

This will allow the business to pinpoint the performance

bottlenecks in the architecture.

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