eQ Integrator App Delivers Capacity Improvement by 50%
Highlights
Secure data cleansing &
migration app for thousands of
ingredients and recipes
Achieved 75% efficiency
increase in data consolidation
Reduced internal resource needs
by 50%, streamlined data access
Business Opportunities
- High resource consumption and complexity in merging diverse data from acquisitions into existing systems.
- Complexity of managing overlapping ingredients with minor differences.
- Manual data entry leading to errors and overutilization of resources.
- Searching for the right data and documents was time consuming.
A leading food and beverage industry packaging brand described their challenges as following:
Features
- User friendly interface for data enrichment and cleansing.
- Auto-creation of various specifications:
- PLM system: Oracle Agile PLM for Process - Ingredients, Formulations, Trade Specs, Packaging, Master Recipe, etc.
- ERP system : SAP ECC6 - Ingredients, Packaging, Master Recipe, etc.
- At a glance comparison between existing and incoming specs - including extended attributes such as chemical and physical properties
- In built verifications to enforce PLM processes (e.g. mandatory attributes, LOVs from PLM etc.)
- Same eQ Integrator App can be reused in the future for new acquisitions with minimal changes to the App
eQube® Benefits
- Centralized and streamlined diverse data sources, facilitating comparison, tracking, and management of numerous attributes and specifications within a single system.
- Consolidated extensive data attributes and specifications, allowing for simplified comparison and tracking across the organization.
- Populated data from native legacy ERP and PLM systems to target ERP and PLM systems using a simple user interface (UI) and automatic data transformations.
- Adhered to highly customized versions of systems used by the customer
The company received the following benefits by choosing eQ Technologic:
eQ Process
- Conducted SME workshops to understand F&B integration challenges; design a user-focused app with agile UI mock-ups for a superior user experience
- Implemented data cleansing through an intuitive UI, with comparative views of specifications and reduced manual data management using eQube®-ADA.
- Created in-built workflows and validations to ensure data integrity and align with evolving PLM processes, pushing data to COTS PLM and ERP systems.
- Launched with a focus on Ingredients management, followed by formulations, packaging, and master recipe management iterated based on performance analytics, and continuously accommodated evolving data conditions.
eQube® Products Used
- eQube® Integration Suite: eQube®-MI, eQube®-AG, eQube®-TM
- eQube® Analytics Suite: eQube®-BI, eQube®-ADA
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