ESAB, världsledande inom svetsteknologi, är det svenska och globala företaget med krävande kunder, många i komplicerade leverantörskedjor och just-in-time tillverkningsprocesser. ESAB möter kraven bland annat
genom att automatisera processer och integrera egna och kunders system. Det har givit en förenkling av orderhanteringen och faktureringen, det har förbättrat kassaflödet och sänkt kostnader för fakturering. Bara en
förkortning av "kundkreditdagar" ger kostnadsfördelar i miljonbelopp per år. Ta del av hur Enfo har hjälpt ESAB göra detta till veklighet, hur en på riktigt smartare infrastruktur kan skapas. Talare: Magnus Strömer, Alliance Manager och Anders Wasén, Chief Architect, Enfo AB. Mer från dagen på http://bit.ly/sb13se
2. Enfo Sweden AB
Förbättra kassaflöde och minska
faktureringskostnader med en
smartare infrastruktur
Magnus Strömer, IBM Alliance Manager
Anders Wasén, B2B Solutions Architect
3. Enfo Sweden AB
ESAB, a ”smarter” infrastructure…
Magnus Strömer, IBM Alliance Manager
Anders Wasén, B2B Solutions Architect
4. Agenda
• Enfo, who we are…
• The ESAB business case
• Baseline
• The solution
Enfo Sweden AB
5. Enfo Zystems
We are close to 150 Integration specialists
We design, implement and maintain our solutions, Middleware products
along with our framework Baseline
We have more than 200 certifications on Integration products
Enfo group is Nordic IT company with close to 1000 employees
Zystems has implemented more than 75% of all IBM Integration
platforms in Sweden
Europe's leading support organization within Integration
We have subsidiaries and partners in Finland, Norway, Denmark,
Germany and USA
Enfo Sweden AB
6. The ESAB case…
Enfo Sweden AB
A short introduction to ESAB:
Founded 1904 after Oscar Kjellberg’s invention of the welding
electrode
World leader in welding and cutting equipment
Owned by Colfax corp. About 8.000 employees worldwide
Offices in 80 countries and 26 manufacturing plants
ESAB boosts customer satisfaction with seamless EDI
Accelerating onboarding for new clients, improving
cash-flow, reducing invoice and order processing costs
An IBM case-study: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/wsc14456seen/WSC14456SEEN.PDF
7. The ESAB case…
Enfo Sweden AB
The business case:
• Together with IBM we analyzed ESAB’s financial statements and found that
the Days sales outstanding (DSO) was higher than the industry average.
• The reason was found to be in their IT solutions for EDI, which was unstable
and difficult to monitor.
• Invoicing for example added 2 days to their DSO. In decreased cash flow and
loss of revenue these 2 days builds up to substantial amounts over a year.
• Cash flow took a 23 million Euro hit which was slashed by 1 million Euro!
9. Baseline – Integration Best Practice
Roles and
Organization
Processes
Documents
and Templates
Concept
Model
Baseline Reference Architecture
Baseline Software
Any Middleware (IBM, MS, Open Source)
Enfo Sweden AB
10. The Concept Model
Integration
Model of integrations
Easy to understand
Can express any requirement
Contract
Service
Consumer
System
Provider
11. Bridge the Gap with the Concept Model
Contract
Contract
Integration
13. The solution
Enfo Sweden AB
ESAB started looking for a new B2B Gateway
Key features for the new B2B platform:
Ease of use!
Flexible
Scalable
Robust
Secure
Efficient
Atlas project was started to migrate several ERP instances to
one
Transformation of EDIFACT was moved from WMB to WTX in
DataPower
Partner profiles consolidated into DataPower XB60
SOA enabled B2B Gateway lessend the ESB complexity
Several servers/protocols migrated into DataPower
14. The solution
Enfo Sweden AB
IBM DataPower overview
Purpose built hardware platform
Provides support for all “modern” protocols and B2B, e.g.
EDIFACT, ebMS/ebXML, SHS, SSEK
Performs critical security functions and protects messages
across the enterprise
Decreases cost by enabling self load balancing and cluster
awareness
Enforces security standards with zero coding using
configurable XML encryption, digital signatures, and Oauth
Supports data-streaming, removes the need for file storage
in DMZ
15. The solution
Enfo Sweden AB
Internet
DMZ
Intranet
MQ Queue
Manager
DMZ Queue
Manager
B2B / EDI
Gateway
ESB
WebServices
DMZ
App.server
DMZ Queue
Manager
IBMFTP Server
Datapower
Appliance
Failover (HA)
IBM Datapower
sFTP Server
Appliance
sFTP Client
FTP Client
Firewall
Firewall
JMS Bridge
ERP
Intranet
DB
MQ Queue
Manager
File share
server
File
storage
ESB
MQ Queue
Manager
ERP
MQ Queue
Manager
File
storage
16. The solution
Enfo Sweden AB
DataPower XB62
Production cluster.
Real-time replication.
Internet
DMZ
Datapower
XB62
Datapower
XB62
Datapower
XB62
Optional: External
load balancing
Firewall
L
B
MQ Queue
Manager
FTP
HTTP
JMS
WebService
(SOAP)
DataPower XB60
QA/Test.
2 DataPower in production
1 DataPower for test/QA
Load-balancer for HTTP/S
external proxy to handle
HTTPS/SSL
17. What ESAB love the most…
Enfo Sweden AB
Ability to support a wide range of customer demands in transport
protocols due to the width of DataPower capabilities
Greatly decreased lead-time of onboarding new connections and partners
Consolidation of several protocols and different message-flows into DataPower
gives your company a single focal point for all your external traffic. This is giving
you only one place to monitor all your external data, regardless of if it is sFTP,
WebServices, EDI, AS2 or any of the other supported protocols and message
types.
Enfo Zystems concept of "Extend SOA to include B2B" has significantly
decreased the complexity of routing in the back-end integration platform as
DataPower handles any routing, even content-based, with such efficiency. The
graphical Processing Policies in DataPower helps configuring fine control of
message routing in a quick and efficient manner.
18. What ESAB love the most…
Enfo Sweden AB
Out-of-the-box support for EDI, both ANSI X12 and EDIFACT in
combination with the best transformation tool on the market, IBM
WebSphere Transformation Extender, reduces development time of
advanced transformations to a fraction compared to standard coding.
Profile based setup of partner- and message-flows gives the availability to
deploy and change setup as a common base and also script configuration as
both export and import packages. This is reducing errors and significantly
speeding up projects.
Synchronous handling of transactions within DataPower gives the possibility to
reject any invalid data sent by external partners. The transaction will be
refused by DataPower and the partner will receive an Error-response instead of
your organization having to deal and track down invalid data in your own
internal platform. This is especially convenient for EDI data which is normally
complex and difficult to track errors in.