Gold Client drives Colmobil’s critical enterprise data initiative to ROI success

Colmobil, Israel's largest importer and distributor of vehicles, was executing several SAP projects in parallel across the company’s SAP landscape. This included migrating two subsidiaries’ legacy systems to SAP, which required updating testing environments to develop new business logic and properly connect all the data. However, creating a new system or refreshing an existing one with updated data for a new project was extremely time-consuming. It could take up to a week of intensive work to complete these tasks. As a result, teams always questioned whether it was worth creating a fresh system or whether they could risk working on an outdated one. Dependence on the Basis team created bottlenecks. The Application team had to rely on the Basis team to refresh a QA or Dev environment. Bottlenecks inevitably led to long lead times to create new environments. It was difficult to recreate erroneous events or research bugs. Discrepancies between the production environment and Dev or QA limited the company’s ability to address issues when they arose. Issues usually appeared in the newest customizations or development work, where the gap between production and Dev or QA existed.

Colmobil is Israel’s largest importer and distributor of passenger and commercial vehicles, trucks, and buses, and provides spare part logistics services. It is the sole distributor of Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, and Smart. As part of the business, Colmobil has seven major vehicle service centers, a trade-in subsidiary, a large insurance agency and a leasing and financing subsidiary. The company operates a fully-computerized logistics center and distribution network, supplying over 75 service workshops each day. All operations run on an SAP platform.