Real-time vehicle and parts locator | Parts and vehicles supply chain

Challenge

Dealers, Parts Suppliers, OEMs, Logistics partners need visibility into where is the part or vehicle.
Building an end to end traceability system needs data from mainframe.
Real time query of mainframe data has performance impact.
Mainframe CDC software options are expensive.
27 Countries across the continent follows different variations to processes.

Solution

Build and deployed cloud native solution on Heroku Cloud.
Purpose driven materialized views on mainframe provided data, refreshed periodically on change events.
Used Spring based webservices on top of Apache Camel for data transformations, duly cached exposed through Jetty Servers.
Client systems on Heroku processed data from mainframe wrapper services and used on part/vehicle locators and business reports.

Benefits

Near real time end to end traceability of parts and vehicles were made possible.
Highly available services on cloud provided interruption free operations.
Boosted predictability for Suppliers, Dealers at hours level than days.
Enabled faster fulfillment for end customer and improved the brand image for OEM.