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Xtenza Application integrated with SAP

AT&S (Austria Technologies and Systemtechnik) develops and makes complex printed circuit boards (PCBs). Annual revenues are $715-million. Its fabrication plants in Austria, China, India, and South Koreas supply PCBs to OEMs and contract manufacturers who produce everything from cellular phones and handheld electronics to autos, aircraft, industrial, and medical equipment. AT&S clients include General Electric, Honeywell, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, and Siemens.

An AT&S factory was making more than 25 international shipments daily to customers worldwide. Generating the export documentation and tracking shipments manually was time consuming and led to many inefficiencies and delays. Reports from multiple shipping/forwarding agents had to be consolidated by hand into a spreadsheet for tracking purposes. This process consumed 4-5 hours every day. Analyzing shipping charges from multiple carriers to multiple destinations was even more difficult. AT&S was unable to leverage negotiated shipping rates to their best advantage.

AT&S needed a comprehensive logistics solution that could be implemented quickly and integrated seamlessly into their existing SAP 4.0 enterprise applications and utilize Lotus Domino for workflow and collaboration tasks.

Xtenza Solutions was selected for implementation. After a trial period for evaluation, AT&S and Xtenza were able to go live with the new application within 10 weeks. Xtenza was able to provide SAP integration, data migration and customized shipping documents and reports.

As a result:

• AT&S no longer sends or receives paper shipping documents
• Shipment tracking and export license reconciliation is available on-line
• Daily shipment reports from multiple agencies are available in seconds from eLogixmate
• Real time shipping information is available on line for both company employees and shipping agents
• Duplicate data entry for SAP applications has been eliminated
• Logistics managers have been freed from time consuming work through the automated reminder feature of eLogixmate

Based on their success with Xtenza, AT&S plans to implement the Vendor Managed Inventory module of Xtenza’s eProcurement application for their customers and to track finished goods inventory at various warehouse locations worldwide.