International beverage firm increases business efficiency and reduces cost with new data warehousing platform

International beverage firm increases business efficiency and reduces cost with new data warehousing platform

Foster’s Group is using the Informatica Platform from data integration software provider, Informatica to attain a single, accurate view of its global operations.

Foster’s Group primarily known for its flagship beers, is a 160-year-old global beverage company that owns a portfolio of more than 200 brands, including beer, wine, spirits, cider, and -nonalcoholic beverages. Through a series of acquisitions Foster’s has operations on five continents, sells its products in more than 100 countries and employs a workforce of 6,000.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have caused Foster’s to have a mix of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.

Foster’s is using Informatica Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica PowerExchange and Informatica Data Explorer. The Informatica solution underpins Foster’s enterprise architecture programme, impacting all of the international beverage leader’s business units.

Major consolidation programme

It drives common business processes, improved data quality, IT simplification and reuse across the enterprise and is being used for enterprise resource planning (ERP) consolidation – merging five systems into one – and the establishment of a unified customer relationship management (CRM) environment.

The platform will also power the creation of a single global business intelligence (BI) environment for faster, lower-cost reporting and analytics, enhanced supply chain efficiency and improved production planning. And it will enable the standardisation of product and customer data hierarchies for unified global views.

The company will also use it data warehousing investment to improve data quality before, during and after data migrations and system consolidations. And it is anticipated that it will allow broader use of outsourced IT services and reassignment of internal IT resources to higher-value tasks through the elimination of inflexible, hand-coded integration interfaces.

“The target state for our enterprise architecture program is to have a single source of truth for critical business data worldwide. The Informatica Platform is an essential part of achieving that goal,” said Michael Davis, Foster’s Group senior enterprise architect. “The Informatica solution will eventually touch almost every aspect of the business through the improved quality of information, streamlined processes and visibility into global operations it helps to power.”