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Building a Microservice Container-Friendly Intercompany Trading System at Brenntag

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Product Area

API Management, Identity and Access Management, Integration

Region

Asia Pacific

Industry

Technology

Highlights

60% Reduction in Processing Time:

Over 60% decrease in internal order processing time, now processing internal orders in 1 day instead of 3 days.

Agile and Scalable Architecture:

Implemented a microservice cloud-based container-friendly architecture that is agile, scalable, and resilient.

Streamlined Operations:

Successfully reorganized Asia Pacific regional hub activities, increasing throughput and creating value within the organization.

Overview

DigiB, a company under the Brenntag Group, acts as the digital hub for Brenntag, a global leader in chemical and ingredients distribution. Brenntag operates 640 locations across 77 countries and generated USD 14.4 billion in sales in 2019. WSO2’s solutions were pivotal in developing the Brenntag Source – Intercompany Trade platform, which consolidates Brenntag’s tools and integrates seamlessly with their SAP ERP system, enhancing operational efficiency and scalability.

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Using WSO2 to implement Brenntag Source – Intercompany Trade was a key part of our strategic vision of moving away from a monolithic architecture into a microservice cloud-based, container-friendly application architecture. This has helped us to bring products to the market faster due to its agile nature and ease of implementation with WSO2. This has also improved the efficiency, scalability, and resiliency of the intercompany trading processes among the internal entities."

Mei Lin Wong

Regional Managing Director

DigiB Asia Pacific

Challenge

Brenntag faced inefficiencies in their internal intercompany trading processes, resulting in reduced productivity with internal orders taking up to 3 days to process. To address this, they needed to digitize these processes and create an online platform that would consolidate all Brenntag tools under one roof, with seamless integration with their core ERP system, SAP.

Objective

  • Digitize Intercompany Trading Processes: Develop an online platform to manage intercompany trading efficiently.
  • Seamless Integration with SAP: Ensure the platform integrates smoothly with the SAP ERP system.
  • Improve Operational Efficiency: Reduce the internal order processing time.

Solution

DigiB evaluated multiple vendors and ultimately chose WSO2 due to its successful implementations in many international banks and its network of technically proficient partners, including 101Digital, the project’s implementation partner. The choice of WSO2 was reinforced by a successful proof of concept (PoC) demonstrating compatibility with SAP, a key requirement for DigiB. The solution, Brenntag Source – Intercompany Trade, is a microservice architecture deployed on cloud-based containers in Singapore and is currently live in the Asia Pacific region. It includes:

  • WSO2 API Manager: Exposes over 110 APIs for creating, managing, and retrieving purchase and sales orders.
  • WSO2 Enterprise Integrator: Integrates with SAP, document management systems, and Kafka, handling tasks such as data transformation, orchestration, and aggregation.
  • WSO2 Identity Server: Manages user authentication, authorization, and API security.

Results

By transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservice cloud-based, container-friendly architecture, Brenntag and DigiB were able to reorganize their Asia Pacific regional hub activities, significantly increasing throughput and creating value within the organization. The Brenntag Source – Intercompany Trade platform is now agile, efficient, scalable, and resilient, enabling internal orders to be processed within 1 day instead of 3 days.

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