Foster's Gains Global View of Operations

Foster's Group Limited is using the Informatica Platform from Informatica Corporation to attain a single, accurate view of its global operations.

 

Primarily known for its flagship beers, Foster's Group is a 160-year-old global beverage company that owns a portfolio of more than 200 brands, including beer, wine, spirits, cider and -nonalcoholic beverages. Through a series of acquisitions Foster's has operations on five continents, sells its products in more than 100 countries and employs a workforce of 6,000.

 

Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.Foster's is utilizing Informatica Data Quality, Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica PowerExchange and Informatica Data Explorer.

 

The solution:

-- Underpins Foster's enterprise architecture program, impacting all of the international beverage leader's business units.

-- Drives common business processes, improved data quality, IT simplification and reuse across the enterprise.

-- Is leveraged for ERP consolidation -- merging five systems into one -- and the establishment of a unified Customer Relationship Management (CRM) environment.

-- Powers the creation of a single global Business Intelligence (BI) environment for faster, lower-cost reporting and analytics, enhanced supply chain efficiency and improved production planning.

-- Enables standardization of product and customer data hierarchies for unified global views.

-- Improves data quality before, during and after data migrations and system consolidations.

-- Allows broader use of outsourced IT services and reassignment of internal IT resources to higher-value tasks through the elimination of inflexible, hand-coded integration interfaces.

 

"The target state for our enterprise architecture program is to have a single source of truth for critical business data worldwide. The Informatica Platform is an essential part of achieving that goal," saysMichael Davis, senior enterprise architect, Foster's Group. "The Informatica solution will eventually touch almost every aspect of the business through the improved quality of information, streamlined processes and visibility into global operations it helps to power."