| Customer:
Expert Hellas
Challenge:
- Automate the supply chain process for the entire point-of-sale network of Expert in Greece
- Provide on-line access to the central J. D. Edwards ERP system at Expert headquarters
- Meet strict time-to-market solution delivery requirements
Applications:
Expert Hellas required a robust Web-based solution for automating the following business processes for their network of retail stores:
- Inventory price check and product availability
- Product ordering
- Order tracking
- Security, monitoring, reporting and administration for the above applications
Key Business Challenges:
Minimize handling delays and costs, minimize errors, and improve high level view to management.
Key Technical Challenges:
- Thin-client at every store with no installed software
- Secure and high-performance access to the J. D. Edwards ERP back-end data
- Reliability and continuous uptime
- Easy maintenance and expandability
Solution:
EBS designed and implemented a set of solutions, applying standard software engineering methodologies that allow rapid development, integration and deployment in a distributed IT environment. Involved products and technologies included JBoss Application Server, J. D. Edwards ERP, JCA/JDBC and Microsoft SQL Server. The delivered solution met the business goals with proven performance and reliability and can be easily expanded to accommodate changing business needs and additional requirements.
Technology:
Back-End EISs: J. D. Edwards ERP, Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS
Application Server: JBoss / Tomcat / Apache Webserver
Integration: JCA/JDBC
Software Architecture: Full J2EE* 1.3.1 3-tier approach
*Java 2 Enterprise Edition
Value for Aventis:
- Reduced operational costs
- Power, speed and flexibility at the Point-of-Sale
- Increase in sales and customer service quality
- Time reduction of product delivery at Point-of-Sale
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