Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
Data Engineering
API Management for Global 500 Construction Manufacturer
- Forbes Global 500 manufacturer with 100+ years supporting construction, mining, forest, energy, and manufacturing industries
- $245.5B in revenue
Business Need
- Effective and reusable data sharing between internal business teams and ecosystem constituents (ex: dealers)
- Easily adoptable and maintainable framework for data sharing and integration
- Eliminate manual processes and improve accuracy/quality
- IT and business collaboration for more governed processes
- Business self-sufficiency
- Cost optimization via platform rationalization
Challenge
- Inefficient sharing of critical customer, dealer, parts, and order data between teams and applications
- Lack of standards in information sharing and integration
- Time consuming and inaccurate data impacts internal and external collaboration
- Data unavailability hinders business decisioning
Solution & Results
- Standardized data integration across business and IT groups, 78% reduction in cycle time (weeks to days)
- Rationalization and $1.5M+ license cost savings
- 40 use cases of business value-driven enterprise integration in just 4 months
- Implemented processes to define, measure, monitor, and manage KPIs
- 91% reduction in data quality effort
- Automated ~74% of API policy creation, improving operational performance
- Futureproof, low/no maintenance solution
- Data-driven decision-making on the cloud