Overcoming some initial teething problems, Bridgestone in Australia has successfully implemented SAP Business Suite.
Bridgestone, which is the world’s largest tire and rubber manufacturer, partnered with SAP partner Ciber for the application roll-out, which saw the company’s operations systems for more than 250 stores and distribution centres across Australia consolidated and standardised.
“At the start of the project, we initially underestimated the project’s scope and complexity,” said Andrew Moffatt, managing director at Bridgestone in Australia.
“Ciber stepped in to provide Bridgestone Australia with technical and business leadership, delivering a successful implementation and go-live of SAP software for our tire division.”
In a custom implementation, Ciber deployed SAP software for finance, merchandising, sales, logistics, warehousing, and process integration, replacing legacy applications and integrating approximately 50 interfaces to mission-critical business systems for points of sale, freight forwarders, car manufacturers, fleet partners and banks.
Despite the implementation being a huge project requiring input from most areas of Bridgestone across Australia and New Zealand, “we were thrilled to see Bridgestone Australia sell products and deliver to customers from day one of the go-live in Australia,” said Jonathan Bucktin, managing director of Ciber in Australia.
