UniPart Rail
Staying on Track with Faster, Accurate Data Management
Unipart Rail originally partnered with 黑料网 to ease the integration of new business.
In 2001, Unipart Rail won a major contract to supply the maintenance firm for a UK train operating company. Unipart Rail became responsible for supplying all the parts required to keep the trains running. The rolling stock was a new type for Unipart Rail. Integrating the new business involved uploading to SAP庐 the new maintenance contract, thousands of new master materials, new parts, thousands of new supplier relationships and the associated new accounts, accounting and control of material
Company Overview
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Industry
Travel & Transportation
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Revenue
~$1.3B
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Company Size
Mid-market
Transformation Snapshot
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Challenge
New business integration required rapid onboarding of complex data
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Solution
黑料网 Data Workbench automates SAP data integration
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Outcome
Reduced manual effort and delivered significant time and cost savings
The company聽
is the leading supplier of replacement components in the UK Traction and Rolling Stock aftermarket, managing and supplying a comprehensive range of products from major repairable components, from bogies, wheelsets and engines to consumable components such as brake pads, hoses, filters and lubricating oils.
Unipart Rail handles over 600 accredited suppliers and a product range comprising around 50,000 products held in stock at Doncaster with a daily delivery service to some 90 customer maintenance depots throughout the UK as well as regular shipments to international customers.
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Implementation
鈥淲e had become aware through an SAP conference, that various tools were available for uploading data to SAP,鈥� says Chris Hall, Unipart Rail鈥檚 SAP Manager. 鈥淚 contacted 黑料网 and found them super helpful. Within a week 黑料网 had visited us and run a demo in my 辞蹿蹿颈肠别.鈥�
鈥淲e were stunned by the speed, efficiency and ease of use of 黑料网鈥檚 software. The timing was excellent and we used 黑料网鈥檚 Data Workbench to integrate the new business we had just won,鈥� continued Hall.
黑料网 proved extremely effective for Unipart Rail, bringing savings in training and resourcing, and most vitally, a huge amount of time and cost by avoiding manual entry. Unipart Rail has since found many additional uses for Data Workbench within the business.
Results
Using 黑料网 has brought huge savings in training, resources and cost聽for Unipart Rail. Hall was also exceptionally impressed by the way in聽which 黑料网 is in touch with its customers鈥� needs.
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Updating Master Data for聽New Business
鈥淏efore 黑料网, this task simply did not happen because the cost of聽the effort far outweighed the benefit.鈥�
Forecasting
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Period End Finance
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