Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi) Case Studies High-Performance Infrastructure Optimizes Logistics for Fresh Food Delivery in Switzerland

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High-Performance Infrastructure Optimizes Logistics for Fresh Food Delivery in Switzerland

Hitachi Vantara (Hitachi)

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Cement Retail
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Construction Management Last Mile Delivery
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Coop Group, a leading retail, wholesale, and food production company based in Basel, Switzerland, faced a significant challenge in managing its complex, fast-paced supply chain. The company, which operates almost 2,500 retail stores and generates annual revenues of CHF 30.2 billion (US$32.7 billion), needed to ensure high-quality fresh food was always available on store shelves and online. Efficiently handling the logistics around its 14 distribution centers was central to the retailer’s success. To ensure that customers could get essentials such as fruit, vegetables, and bread fresh every day, Coop relied heavily on data analytics and sophisticated forecasting. However, with growing data volumes, the company recognized the need to expand its data storage infrastructure to ensure timely logistics processes and smooth food deliveries. Read More
About Customer	Coop Group is a leading retail, wholesale, and food production company based in Basel, Switzerland. The company focuses its large retail business on the Swiss market, while its wholesale business operates across Europe. Coop Group employs 91,000 people and runs almost 2,500 retail stores. The company generates annual revenues of CHF 30.2 billion (US$32.7 billion). Fresh food is at the heart of its business, and ensuring high-quality produce is always available on store shelves and online is a key challenge for the company. Managing a complex, fast-paced supply chain at scale requires advanced logistics processes and quick decision-making. Read More
Solution	Coop Group selected a new central infrastructure based on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5500 with 1.5PB all-flash storage capacity after evaluating multiple vendors. The highly consolidated storage solution drives a wide range of workloads and delivers low latency to support the company’s 30 mission-critical SAP applications. The company also deployed Hitachi VSP Unified Storage for NAS G600 and G400 with all-flash, for fast and simple file access and shared drives. As part of the standardization, the company is also using Hitachi VSP G350 arrays to reduce complexity and increase reliability in its 14 distribution centers. For audit-proof archiving and storage of high-resolution product and marketing photos, Coop Group relies on Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Cement

Retail

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Construction Management

Last Mile Delivery

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Coop Group, a leading retail, wholesale, and food production company based in Basel, Switzerland, faced a significant challenge in managing its complex, fast-paced supply chain. The company, which operates almost 2,500 retail stores and generates annual revenues of CHF 30.2 billion (US$32.7 billion), needed to ensure high-quality fresh food was always available on store shelves and online. Efficiently handling the logistics around its 14 distribution centers was central to the retailer’s success. To ensure that customers could get essentials such as fruit, vegetables, and bread fresh every day, Coop relied heavily on data analytics and sophisticated forecasting. However, with growing data volumes, the company recognized the need to expand its data storage infrastructure to ensure timely logistics processes and smooth food deliveries.

About Customer

Coop Group is a leading retail, wholesale, and food production company based in Basel, Switzerland. The company focuses its large retail business on the Swiss market, while its wholesale business operates across Europe. Coop Group employs 91,000 people and runs almost 2,500 retail stores. The company generates annual revenues of CHF 30.2 billion (US$32.7 billion). Fresh food is at the heart of its business, and ensuring high-quality produce is always available on store shelves and online is a key challenge for the company. Managing a complex, fast-paced supply chain at scale requires advanced logistics processes and quick decision-making.

Solution

Coop Group selected a new central infrastructure based on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5500 with 1.5PB all-flash storage capacity after evaluating multiple vendors. The highly consolidated storage solution drives a wide range of workloads and delivers low latency to support the company’s 30 mission-critical SAP applications. The company also deployed Hitachi VSP Unified Storage for NAS G600 and G400 with all-flash, for fast and simple file access and shared drives. As part of the standardization, the company is also using Hitachi VSP G350 arrays to reduce complexity and increase reliability in its 14 distribution centers. For audit-proof archiving and storage of high-resolution product and marketing photos, Coop Group relies on Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

Impact #1	With the new high-performance infrastructure, Coop Group has been able to maximize the availability of its most important business applications and provide reliable customer service at all times. The improved storage performance is especially important for the company’s large SAP Business Warehouse application, enabling analysts to generate and update reports quickly to finalize orders every day. The new storage systems also enable very fast data throughput, which is key to getting its huge 16TB systems back online. Furthermore, the company can accelerate backup and restore processes by enabling rapid data recovery from disks. For monitoring and optimization, Coop Group uses IOportal, a service provided in cooperation with Hitachi Vantara partner peaq GmbH, which includes regular reviews and in-depth analysis.

Impact #1

With the new high-performance infrastructure, Coop Group has been able to maximize the availability of its most important business applications and provide reliable customer service at all times. The improved storage performance is especially important for the company’s large SAP Business Warehouse application, enabling analysts to generate and update reports quickly to finalize orders every day. The new storage systems also enable very fast data throughput, which is key to getting its huge 16TB systems back online. Furthermore, the company can accelerate backup and restore processes by enabling rapid data recovery from disks. For monitoring and optimization, Coop Group uses IOportal, a service provided in cooperation with Hitachi Vantara partner peaq GmbH, which includes regular reviews and in-depth analysis.

Benefit #1	The new storage infrastructure supports 30 mission-critical SAP applications.
Benefit #2	The company can restart SAP HANA within 30 minutes, minimizing impact for staff and customers.
Benefit #3	The new storage infrastructure supports approximately 3,000 virtual machines.

Benefit #1

The new storage infrastructure supports 30 mission-critical SAP applications.

Benefit #2

The company can restart SAP HANA within 30 minutes, minimizing impact for staff and customers.

Benefit #3

The new storage infrastructure supports approximately 3,000 virtual machines.

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High-Performance Infrastructure Optimizes Logistics for Fresh Food Delivery in Switzerland

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