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Logistic primer
The following example is based on the sequence of SOA and integration projects under-
taken over several years on one of the oldest Scandinavian Company, aimed to improve
costs savings and operational agility. The details about the company and the project under-
taken are explained in the following sections.
Basic facts about the company
Some of the details about the company and its market position are as follows:
Governing and type of own-
ership
Number of em-
ployees
Logistic operator
Business domain
Reindeer Rudolph Delivery
(RRD) AS
Logistic and distribution with more than 300 years of
service
State owned/ Government
20,000
RRD history
RRD is a well-established big logistic operator, freight forwarder, and parcel delivery ser-
vice, operating across Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Its main assets are cargo trans-
portations units, cargo and transshipment terminals and collection and distribution centers.
All operations are very centralized and governed from a single operation center (Stockholm
HQ). Development and implementation tasks are under the control of the local IT depart-
ment with high level of skills in centralization. Although up to 50 percent of implementa-
tions are done by internal IT forces, the presence of external vendors, carrying on develop-
ment, is substantial due to the magnitude of ongoing tasks.
Technical infrastructure and automation environment
The application landscape just reflects the governance model as all core applications are
implemented by the centralized Oracle E-Business Suite bundle running on very beefy
hardware (a modern mainframe), on the HA topology.
A very extensive Adapter framework is employed in order to handle a sizeable amount of
remote service consumers and service providers. In order to handle a desirable level of con-
currency, asynchronous interchange patterns are considered as a primary way of commu-
nications. The Oracle E-Business Suite is the main source of business events, which are
identified and distributed for message construction and processing.
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