Cases for the iSeries platform

3rd Party data import/export

Year

2002-2004

Client

Shell Consumer Home Comfort

Industry

Service of HVAC installations (Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning)

Country

UK, Greece, Turkey and Germany

Profile

Shell Consumer is a business unit in the Shell organization with a global portfolio of 115,000 employees in 145 countries. Shell Consumer is represented in 25 countries focusing on development of new business areas offering products and services for the home – from natural gas and electricity to fuels and lubricants.

Challenge

100,000 customers in the German service business unit are bound to move

Solution

iSeries2web used as an XML communication tool allowing the backend ERP to be updated with the official street registry.

Result

The correct address information reduced costs for shipping materials, trimmed down the amount of returned mail and saved time during billing procedures.