Customer Case
Winter
2008
OVET chooses the Ometa
Integrator solution to build Portals in SharePoint integrated with the ERP
system (BaaN).
OVET is a company in the south of
the Netherlands specialized in the transshipment, storage and processing of
bulk products, particularly in the field of solid fuels and ores. Its main
clients are steel companies, power stations and traders. OVET one most important
of the stevedores of
solid fuels for the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.
OVET manages their
orders, service operations, time registration, logistics, financial
transaction,.. using an ERP system (BaaN). Disclosing this information to the field
operators was done via downloads to MS Excel and paper printing.
Here the problem of disconnectivity
between the field operators and the back office system became visible. Order
status, time registration,… need to be filled in on paper or MS Excel and are
to be sent to the administration office. This leads to administrative overhead,
communication overhead and data entry mistakes.
The vision of OVET was to disclose
the information from the back office system in Portals rather than the
disconnected MS Excel spreadsheets. They have SharePoint as the platform for
Enterprise Portals. With the Ometa Integrator solution they can now integrate
the back office. The framework discloses information to non-ERP users and
enables the link between the structured back office data and the unstructured
front office (documents, mails, pictures,…).
Now operators see the ERP
information and all related documents within their SharePoint Portal. New
planned orders that are not yet stored in the back office system can be managed
in SharePoint. Once all information is collected and the order is confirmed, it
can be sent to the back office system.
OVET starts with portals for
Planning and Time Registration. Later portals around order management, HR,
reporting,… will be setup in SharePoint with the full integration to their Back
office system.
Company Profile Snapshot
The history of OVET begins in
1957. In that year the French stevedoring company Manufrance decided
to set up a local bulk stevedore company for and with a major
customer: the Association Cooperative Zélandaise de Carbonisation, better known
as the Cokesfabriek (Coke Factory). The managing director at the time, Y.H.M.
Simenel, started out with seven other employees and ran the company in
Terneuzen.
OVET chose to use floating cranes in
order to be able to lighten vessels in midstream as well as from the quai. The
first floating cranes had a lifting capacity of 6 tons. The company was
successful and steadily gained new clients besides the Coke Factory. The
lifting capacity of the cranes went from 6 tons to 16 tons and later to 25
tons. The newest crane with a lifting capacity of 36 tons came into service in
2007. From an annual 500,000 tons at the beginning, transhipment at Ovet has
grown to as much as 10 million tons. The company now has terminals in
Vlissingen and Terneuzen and over 100 employees ensure that clients can
count on a high quality service .