Challenge: A leading oil field services company acquired a Canadian based company and has faced the enormous challenge of system incompatibility between the two companies. With two different ERP systems, shifting various business processes to headquarters is hampered by the fact that data is being captured, processed, and stored in totally different systems with different nomenclature and views of the information. For this company, one important objective associated with aligning the information from the disparate systems was to centralize the invoicing and collection process so that all invoicing is done using the same e-commerce application at headquarters. This large Oil field services company needed to access data from SAP, align it with the data from JD Edwards, and pump it into the e-commerce application exactly as if it had come from their existing JD Edwards system. They wanted a bi-directional alignment to also push various invoicing and payment information back to SAP so that each business unit could share data and continue working independently, yet transparently. 

Stone Bond’s Solution: This has been achieved with the help of Stone Bond’s One Less Adapter™ for SAP.   Stone Bond’s technology enabled the company to connect with both ERP systems to ensure that all content was centrally accessible, without replacing existing infrastructure or discarding their custom applications.  One Less Adapter for SAP provided re-useable, self-guiding, drag-and-drop connectivity to move data to and from SAP without programming.  Stone Bond’s technology offered the business an easy method of correlating data, content, applications, processes and the IT infrastructure in the wake of this acquisition.

Benefits:The implementation was done quickly and without disruption. The invoicing process now handles SAP data, just as it does data from JD Edwards. The two systems feed and receive information on a real-time basis, removing redundancy, enhancing data system integrity, and significantly reducing errors and inconsistency.  By providing a transparent connection, One Less Adapter preserved existing investments and processes, enables content reuse, and extends the value of existing systems beyond their original scope, while minimizing the cost and risks associated multiple ERP systems. These hurdles that typically plague the successful outcome of Mergers and Acquisitions were eliminated by Stone Bond’s One Less Adapter technology.