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Industrial minerals

Integrating newly acquired plants into a global SAP landscape

Acquisition integration against a legal deadline — from weighbridge automation to event-driven synchronisation across Salesforce, Mendix, Boomi and legacy systems.

Client
A global industrial minerals group
Role
SAP Integration Architect
Period
2024
Stack
Integration Suite · BTP ALM · Event Mesh · C4C
Acquisition
legal deadline for the newly acquired plants
Weighbridge
automated inbound and outbound delivery flows
Event-driven
SAP HANA to downstream platforms
How the pieces connect
Weighbridge & BDO portals
SAP Integration Suite
SAP S/4HANA
Event Mesh → Mendix · Salesforce · Boomi

Context

Sibelco acquired plants in Poland that had to be connected to the group’s SAP landscape to satisfy legal requirements — on the timetable set by the acquisition, not by IT.

The new sites brought their own operational reality: weighbridge traffic, BDO portals and delivery processes that had to keep running while they were integrated.

The challenge

Connect the acquired operations to SAP with automated logistics flows, and synchronise master data across a mixed estate of cloud platforms and legacy applications — without disrupting the plants.

What we did

  1. 01

    Feasibility and architecture

    Interface requirements assessed with business and functional owners, then translated into architecture and interface diagrams.

  2. 02

    Weighbridge and BDO integration

    Integration Suite iFlows built to exchange data with the weighbridge and BDO portals.

  3. 03

    Automated delivery flows

    Inbound and outbound delivery integration driven directly by weighbridge operations.

  4. 04

    Event Mesh synchronisation

    SAP HANA updates propagated to Mendix, Salesforce, Boomi and legacy applications on a common data model.

  5. 05

    Cloud readiness

    PO iFlows migrated to Integration Suite, with the rollout managed through BTP ALM.

  6. 06

    C4C to S/4HANA

    Solution architecture and interface design for the on-premise S/4HANA to C4C integration.

The outcome

  • — Acquired operations integrated within the acquisition timetable.
  • — Logistics automated end to end, from weighbridge to SAP delivery document.
  • — A cloud-ready integration estate rather than another set of point-to-point links.

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