Holicm - Real-Time Logistics and Credit Management
Holcim is one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates and is behind some of the most trusted brands in the building sector including ACC, Aggregate Industries, Ambuja Cement, Disensa, Geocycle, Holcim, Lafarge and Malarkey Roofing Products.
Logistics Use Case:
The Application Transformation team started using an event-driven approach to a logistics use case for cement delivery. This solution required real-time data from more than 10,000 trucks in different locations across Europe. The team needed to correlate the orders with the GPS locations of the trucks and carry out real-time analysis within the tool that had to be easy to deploy, maintain and operate.
Real-Time Credit Solution
The original credit system was using SAP which ran batched processes overnight. Payments were manually checked in country specific systems before allowing customers to collect their order at the cement depot. The process was time consuming, inefficient and didn’t provide a good customer experience.