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Business Process Excellence Makes Eco-Manufacturing Dream a Reality

Software AG

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Longyan Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. (Longyan) was under pressure to drive continuous process optimization and needed innovative manufacturing processes. The company urgently required mapping of end-to-end business processes and more visibility through process analysis. However, they had insufficient tools to design, simulate and test new processes. The company’s goal was to save resources, optimize more, eliminate unnecessary workflows and drive innovation wherever possible. This represented a massive undertaking for a company that had never gone in the direction of full interoperability. A business process management initiative on this company-wide scale was going to need the right solution capable of optimizing Longyan’s entire manufacturing value chain. Read More
About Customer	The Longyan Tobacco Factory was founded in 1961 and began operating in 2007 as the Longyan Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. The company is well known for being the very first state-owned tobacco company in the Republic of China’s Fujian Province and is by far the largest. In 1998, it was named one of the top 20 major companies in this sector by China Tobacco. Longyan and Xiamen Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. are wholly owned subsidiaries of China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd. As a state-owned company in the consumer staples sector, Longyan is also responsible for improving the profitability, long-term prospects and market value of this public asset. Read More
Solution	After scouring the marketplace, Longyan was confident it had found the right partner. Software AG’s ARIS Process Transformation & Management Platform would not only be ideal for analyzing and optimizing its business processes to improve productivity, it would also ensure Longyan came out on top where governance was concerned. And there was another major benefit that the competitors just couldn’t beat: ease of use. ARIS would enable Longyan to easily visualize every single process, across multiple hierarchies using its multi-view, multi-layer, multi-link and full lifecycle functionality. To top it all off, the ARIS enterprise-wide business process design tool was exactly what Longyan needed to design and manage new and efficient processes in the future. Since the implementation of the ARIS process-oriented model architecture in 2013, Longyan has used ARIS to develop its overarching process design. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Longyan Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. (Longyan) was under pressure to drive continuous process optimization and needed innovative manufacturing processes. The company urgently required mapping of end-to-end business processes and more visibility through process analysis. However, they had insufficient tools to design, simulate and test new processes. The company’s goal was to save resources, optimize more, eliminate unnecessary workflows and drive innovation wherever possible. This represented a massive undertaking for a company that had never gone in the direction of full interoperability. A business process management initiative on this company-wide scale was going to need the right solution capable of optimizing Longyan’s entire manufacturing value chain.

About Customer

The Longyan Tobacco Factory was founded in 1961 and began operating in 2007 as the Longyan Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. The company is well known for being the very first state-owned tobacco company in the Republic of China’s Fujian Province and is by far the largest. In 1998, it was named one of the top 20 major companies in this sector by China Tobacco. Longyan and Xiamen Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. are wholly owned subsidiaries of China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd. As a state-owned company in the consumer staples sector, Longyan is also responsible for improving the profitability, long-term prospects and market value of this public asset.

Solution

After scouring the marketplace, Longyan was confident it had found the right partner. Software AG’s ARIS Process Transformation & Management Platform would not only be ideal for analyzing and optimizing its business processes to improve productivity, it would also ensure Longyan came out on top where governance was concerned. And there was another major benefit that the competitors just couldn’t beat: ease of use. ARIS would enable Longyan to easily visualize every single process, across multiple hierarchies using its multi-view, multi-layer, multi-link and full lifecycle functionality. To top it all off, the ARIS enterprise-wide business process design tool was exactly what Longyan needed to design and manage new and efficient processes in the future. Since the implementation of the ARIS process-oriented model architecture in 2013, Longyan has used ARIS to develop its overarching process design.

Impact #1	Increased process efficiency
Impact #2	Delivered on eco-manufacturing goals
Impact #3	Gained process visibility company-wide

Impact #1

Increased process efficiency

Impact #2

Delivered on eco-manufacturing goals

Impact #3

Gained process visibility company-wide

Benefit #1	Reduced manufacturing costs

Benefit #1

Reduced manufacturing costs

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Business Process Excellence Makes Eco-Manufacturing Dream a Reality

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