Customer
Our customer is a world leader in the production of tires. The company manufactures and markets tires, several lines of belts, hose and other engineered rubber products for the transportation industry and various industrial and consumer markets, as well as rubber-related chemicals for various applications. Our customer operates more than 100 plants in 29 countries.

Project Overview
The project entitled «Integration and Transfer of Legacy Systems» (ITLS) is designed to adapt SAP objects that were initially tuned for customer plants in Germany to be deployed at plants in other countries. The project includes functionality extension for the following areas: Factory Accounting, Factory Purchasing, Tire Costing, Specifications, Ticketing, Plant Maintenance, and Plant Mold Mgt.

Project Execution
IBA implements the project in close cooperation with the customer. The IBA responsibilities include adaptation of programs, reports, transactions, tables, and other FI/CO objects to meet the needs and requirements of each country, as well as assistance in FI/CO customization. The Blueprint phase is also underway for Plant Accounting (France). In the near future, the project will be expanded to include plants in Turkey and Great Britain. Different phases for various countries are implemented concurrently.

IBA has been engaged in the improvement of PM Cockpit, a tool to maintain and link key objects of the PM module. The PM module implements special logic and rules to operate certain PM objects. The rules were set up to support specific production processes. Presently, the improvement is done for the Luxemburg plant but will soon be expanded to cover other plants. The work consists of two stages, namely porting of the legacy module to an object-oriented platform and implementation of new functionality.

It is also planned that IBA will participate in the implementation of a production module (SAP-PP) at the mold plant in Luxemburg. The project will include customizing, as well as development of an interface to exchange data with a number of engineering shop-floor systems. In addition, PP functionality will be extended to replace certain shop-floor systems.

Project Results
The customer receives high quality applications that incorporate the latest technologies. Retaining all features of the legacy applications, new solutions provide enhanced functionality and are tuned to meet the needs of different plants of our customer. The customer achieves cost reduction while maintaining high quality. All deliverables are completed on schedule and exceed quality requirements specified by the customer.

Last modified: 28 August 2006

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