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Volvo Parts is a company within the Volvo Group handling supply chain management for the aftermarket. The company has been growing quickly through mergers and today has a diverse set of different IT systems to support similar or even identical functionalities. The business challenge is to implement one global process for material management supported by one common IT system for all the warehouses. The presentation will focus on the technical challenges and lessons learned within the project, replacing 20+ different IT systems, both in-house developed and bought packages, with one COTS-based IT system. Since the new system is expected to have a long lifetime, we need to secure that the COTS based solution is open, flexible and scalable over time. Integration to existing systems is another key part of the architecture needed in this solution.
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Hansson, E., Grahn, G.V. (2005). One Global COTS-Based System to Replace 20+ Local Legacy Systems. In: Franch, X., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3412. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30587-3_24
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