Staying competitive in the market requires consistently adapting to changes and fitting into the environment. At AeonX, we are always striving to ensure that our clients are progressing along with the industry’s evolving technology.
This is clearly illustrated by a recent engagement we had with one of our clients, which was highly successful. The client, one of India’s top healthcare organisations, is dedicated to offering high-quality treatment to everyone.
Towards achieving the ambitious goal, the client upgraded its SAP systems to drive efficiency and enhance operational capacity. The SAP system could not, however, be used to its full potential due to a lack of skilled personnel and structural inefficiencies.
AeonX promptly identified this problem and provided the necessary assistance to resolve it through our SAP Managed Services. Through SAP AMS, the client was able to maximize the efficiency of SAP systems. Additionally, this experience helped us to position ourselves as a leading SAP Managed Service provider.
By incorporating technology into what they do, we specialize in helping our clients’ businesses grow. It is plainly stated in our most recent engagement for a major infrastructure player.
Our client is a major infrastructure developer with a strong presence in the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) market. The client implemented cutting-edge technological progress and picked SAP solutions to boost efficiency in project completion.
However, they were unable to drive more value from their SAP solution due to incomplete technological knowledge. This limitation was found while carefully examining their IT architecture. The client was able to achieve strategic and focused value from their SAP solutions with assistance from our SAP managed services experts.
Taiyo Nippon Sanso India (TNSI) has slashed operating expenses and service delivery times by going all-in on SAP ERP with the help of Aeonx, an SAP Gold Partner. With two trans-filling facilities, TNSI is a market leader in India’s helium business. The Taiyo Nippon Sanso India Company Limited (TNSI) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, a leading provider of industrial, Medical, Electronic and Specialty gases with headquarters in Japan.
TNSI has been instrumental in ensuring a ready supply of the most common Electronic and Specialty gases for usage in numerous industries, including microelectronics, surface coatings, glasses, and fibre optics, among several others. While Invoice and Delivery Challan are generated in SAP, TNSI uses TrackAbout as their primary cylinder asset management software. The database of TrackAbout stores the scanned data of gas cylinder pickup and delivery. In order to retrieve the cylinder details (serial number, TAG, lot number) for cylinder tracking, documentation, and reporting, the company needed advanced analytics tools and a unified system integrating the main features of its core business processes.
For TNSI, maintaining a clear integration strategy across internal and external communications was an enormously difficult task. Meanwhile, it could not afford to make a drastic technology change to deal with the problem.
With the use of SAP ERP, an enterprise resource planning application, TNSI was able to combine its several asset management platforms into a single one, improving internal communications’ efficiency and coherence. This is how Aeonx implemented its process step by step:
Implementation Process:
Obtaining requirements from the TNSI business team.
Analysing APIs with the TrackAbout US team.
Obtaining API access credentials from TrackAbout.
Creation of Z-Tables to store data from the TrackAbout API.
Develop a custom SAP program to implement TrackAbout’s REST API GET method.
Enhancement in VF03 header to display details about each cylinder.
Improvements in print output to display cylinder details.
The development of custom reports based on the data received from TrackAbout.
To enable this level of digitization, Aeonx created a custom program in SAP to implement the GET method of REST API using SAP standard class CL_HTTP_CLIENT. Aeonx team implemented REST API calls from SAP ABAP using this class, which makes HTTP communication possible in ABAP. In addition, a background schedule was set up for this program to run every two hours. Using SAP, a table was created to keep track of the last execution time and date.
Additionally, the program is scheduled to execute TrackAbout’s GET function every two hours beginning with the last execution date and time. The API returns order data in JSON format, and this is then converted into an internal table, which is then stored in a Z-Table, with the cylinder serial number and order number as key fields.
A modification to the VF03 header was made to better show cylinder information obtained from TrackAbout by referring to the Z- Table. According to requirements, cylinder details were also added to the output forms. Using the data that TrackAbout provided, unique reports were made to suit the needs of the business.
Within a month of integrating TNSI’s TrackAbout into SAP ERP system, many use cases were ready for production, and TNSI started to reap the rewards fairly quickly.
Through direct and seamless connectivity with TrackAbout and SAP ERP, Aeonx enables TNSI to access, search, share, and analyse all of their organisational data in one location. Once background jobs are planned, TNSI can use Aeonx’s solution to quickly implement a robust and flawless solution without any manual intervention, boosting their agility, efficiency, and digital transformation while also giving them a competitive edge in the energy market.
Innovations were brewing at one of the largest automatic plants in India. Gopal Namkeen’s ambitions were stymied by its reliance on traditional hosting, a lack of a barcode reading system, and non-integrated sales systems.
With the help of AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, Aeonx, and its Greengrass technology solution powered by AWS, Gopal Namkeen automated these critical processes and integrated its disparate legacy systems into a cohesive technology stack. By focusing its resources on business strategy rather than on time-consuming manual processes, Gopal Namkeen has improved key marketplace KPIs and grown nearly 10x in the last year.
Accelerating with a rapid pace
With a reputable and trustworthy market position achieved through quality, reliability, and faith since 1994, Gopal Namkeen has one of the largest automatic plants spread over 75000 Sq.ft. in Rajkot. Gopal Namkeen’s crunchy, mouth-watering Snack Pellets are extremely popular in all age groups.
Gopal Namkeen faced significant challenges with being able to rapidly accelerate, scale, and improve its packing and dispatch architecture at the start of the pandemic. The problem could be attributed to three factors: traditional hosting, slow, independent systems that did not integrate well, and reliance on a labor-intensive, error-prone, non-integrated sales platform that was difficult to use for packing and despatch.
As Bipin Hadvani, Managing Director at Gopal Namkeen Group described it, “Our system and processes couldn’t maintain pace with our brand, catalog, and product range because we did not have the ability to move as aggressively as we would have liked.”
From day one, Gopal Namkeen made it clear that it wanted a complete picture of its systems, not views of different silos. They also required that the data be in JSON format for it to be imported into the portal.
Stepping into Integration and Automation
The project had to be done entirely remotely due to Covid-19 restrictions. In spite of this, the team managed to complete it in just two months. This is how Aeonx approached the task and completed it in such a short amount of time-
•Built a system that can read barcodes
•Developed a dispatching system that integrates sales orders
•Hosting of the solution within a development environment
•Testing by AeonX and Gopal Snacks team for end-to-end portal functionalities.
•DNS update for domain authentication and CName records.
•Provide live setup + support for 1 month after going live
We proposed AWS Greengrass technology to store the barcode data, which allows data to be stored locally in the event of an internet outage. This data can then be uploaded to the cloud once the internet is back up. Also, we created functionality in the portal to modify the time when packing vouchers are generated, which exports the data further to SAP through the REST API. Further, only approved sales order data is imported from SAP to the portal. In order to begin loading, the sales order is further matched against the dispatch line. If a different item that was not in the sales order is dispatched, the system is set up to automatically modify the order in SAP. Order status changes once the material is successfully loaded into the vehicle. Furthermore, the closed order data is sent to SAP using a REST API.
The barcode integration with the packing and dispatch system enables dealers the flexibility of ordering products and sharing information with the management, no matter where they are. With AWS, they can now automate key processes of their daily operations while tracking real-time data on SAP. “We are already seeing a 10-percent performance improvement and we are only halfway through implementation,” stated Bipin Hadvani, Managing Director, Gopal Namkeen.
With the laying of the foundation stone, Gopal Namkeen was established in 1994. The company sells snacks and Namkeen both domestically and internationally and is one of the oldest and most well-known Indian brands. The headquarters of Gopal Namkeen is located in Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
Gopal Namkeen has a large dealer network, and on a busy day, this means processing a large number of orders and integrating backend ERP systems. To collect orders from their dealers, Gopal Namkeen relied on a legacy system. As most dealers buy wholesale products, these transactions involve bulk purchases as well. Traditional hosting was used for the underlying dealer portal application architecture, which was not well suited for speed. As the number of transactions increased, it became sluggish, and the user interface was difficult to manage.
Our team worked remotely on this project due to the pandemic, and it only took us two months to complete. They also needed the data to be in JSON format, which they could feed into the dealer portal.
Here’s how AeonX went about delivering a high-quality end solution:
Detailed Requirement Gathering from Gopal Snacks
Finalize solution design and database for Dealer Portal.
Dealer Portal development as per the scope.
Hosting of Solution in Development Environment
Testing by AeonX and Gopal Namkeen team for end-to-end portal
functionalities.
Solution Improvement as per the findings during testing.
DNS update for Domain Authentication using DKIM and CName records.
Go Live + 1 Month Go-Live Support
After gaining a thorough grasp of their needs, AeonX devised the following architecture to ensure that they don’t run into problems again:
The following are the advantages of the new dealer portal we created for Gopal Namkeen:
Dealers can order products based on their needs – the dealer portal allows them to be more flexible when it comes to ordering things. They can now put an order size that corresponds to their requirement.
Some of their items are produced in various locales. When a dealer places an order in this situation, the order is sent directly to the factory where the product is made.
If a dealer orders many products, not all of them are manufactured in the same place. In this situation, the order is sent to the appropriate factory, which subsequently delivers it to the dealer.
It’s possible that certain products will spoil while in transit. In that instance, the dealers are prohibited from purchasing the merchandise since the food may spoil before it reaches them.
Potato chips, for example, are created in all factories. When a dealer places an order for certain products, it is sent straight to the facility closest to them.
Gopal Snacks can limit order values based on a Dealer’s credit limit in the system — certain dealers were bringing in more sales for Gopal Namkeen than others. As a result, we created a gateway where they can allocate a higher-order value to their top dealers. This guarantees that companies are maximizing earnings and properly allocating their products.
Dealers may now access their credit limit on the dealer portal — Dealers can now easily view their credit limit on the order screen. This saves both parties a lot of time because they don’t have to engage on a frequent basis to verify how much credit they have.
With the help of live integration, once the vendor has paid, the system will automatically release the credit block – We designed a solution to automate their process once the money from the vendor is received.
Dealers can check on the status of their orders.
Through the portal, the dealer can obtain an account statement.
We assisted them in taking a stride forward and digitally transforming by having one of Gujarat’s largest automated plans. Their most important day-to-day operations have been automated. With the support of AWS, they can keep track of real-time SAP data. They may now study a wide range of data and make decisions based on analytics to maximize their earnings because they have access to a large amount of data.
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