A MAJOR FOOD DISTRIBUTOR client partnered with Corporate Technologies to enable an outsourced warehouse function supporting its customers—which included some of the world’s largest food producers. Contractual requirements added intense time pressure by preventing our client from receiving revenue until the warehouse was online.

The most complex IT challenge was the integration of unique data formats for each company’s multiple order processing and warehouse management applications, and real-time reporting of order and delivery status via a Web portal.

Our solution implemented a data integration engine to clean, format, exchange, or reject data from multiple sources according to complex business rules. A secure network infrastructure links and protects the server and storage architectures.

As required by our client’s contractual obligations, we implemented this complex solution in an extremely tight timeframe and now support thousands of transactions per day representing millions of dollars.

AN INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION VENDOR engaged us to develop a workflow reporting solution that would allow their customers—software companies—to better meet their GA release deadlines. To ensure maximum quality of software releases, our client needed to generate faster manufacturing summary reports.

Corporate Technologies’ initial analysis identified the need to map highly complex business rules to a set of software tools and reporting infrastructure—all in an environment characterized by a highly intricate workflow.

Our implementation, which required an understanding of the complex data structures within each software product, contains a high-throughput reporting database that includes business intelligence technology to provide analytics. We also provide ongoing support of the application, integrating new workflow report requirements as our client’s customer base grows.

Report generation, which previously averaged six hours, now takes minutes. New reports for new customer workflows are generated faster—and because they are self-service—require no IT or engineering programming. The separate reporting database significantly offloads the main system, improving transaction throughput by orders of magnitude.