Use Case - Manufacturing
Integrating JD Edwards and Mainframe Tasks Into Enterprise Workflows
Customer since 2019 – This Fortune 500 company manufactures specialty heavy commercial and emergency vehicles for customers globally
Challenges
Multiple siloed schedulers and instances causing errors and downtime
Inefficiencies in cost, time and labor for scheduling, maintenance and training
Failures not known until jobs completed
Situation
The company needed to integrate JD Edwards (JDE) and mainframe workloads into enterprise processes. The existing workload automation solution was unable to support seamless integration of these technologies, even after significant custom work. As a result, the Operations team wrestled with multiple schedulers and instances.
There were inefficiencies in cost, time and labor associated with learning and maintaining the various schedulers and ETL failures were common. With errors not seen until a job completed and manual troubleshooting, SLAs were often breached and staff worked most weekends.
Integrations Used
Results With Tidal
Orchestrate JDE workflows for Manufacturing, MRP and Finance
Eliminate multiple schedulers – Tidal replaced 10 schedulers
Shrink licensing costs, training and admin time
Proactively resolve problems to improve operational effectiveness – 20 hours per week saved
Cut overnight/weekend work, leading to better morale and productivity
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