Better Predictability by Developing a Real-time Vehicle & Parts Locator
Bringing end to end traceability and tracking for parts and vehicles in the supply chain
Global Vehicle OEM in European Market
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.