Adoption of organisational group customer changes into integration layer to global cloud CRM
Project duration: 2 years, 1 month
Brief description
Several country representations of a group customer are carved out from their group organisations to establish themselves as autonomous sales organisations. Theses structural changes of the company landscape directly impacts the ERP set-up which leads again to the necessity to adopt the same in the integration layer to the global Salesforce.com cloud solution, being in use by the customer. PTA is in the lead to assure that approximately 15 MS BizTalk based master and transactional interfaces to and from Salesforce to work continously and interruption-free for all the ca. 400 users. PTA contributes during all project phases and plans, supports and executes tasks in development, testing and implementation.
Supplement
Within this SAP project, PTA supports the interface – driven connections between the involved ERP system and the global Salesforce.com CRM Cloud solution. In this scenario SAP PI and Microsoft BizTalk Server are processing messages flowing to and from the involved systems, following the architectural approach of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). PTA covered conceptioning, planning, configuration and monitoring of the BizTalk application which is responsible for the specific orchestration, processing and mapping of the individual messages.
Subject description
Salesforce.com is used to implement sales and service management at the customer. The complete lead-to-cash process starting with the first contact of a potential customer, via opportunity handling to the deal is covered by the features of the system. Repair visits of technical experts are planned based on inbound customer complaints as well as regular maintenance visits as granted by individual service contracts. A planning board helps to identify and assign the appropriate field service engineer based on availability, skills and technical requirements of each service visit. The engineers document their work in Salesforce from where it's forwarded to the ERP system for invoicing. Spare parts ordering and management completes the features of the service module.