DataLink Integration with SAP

Alliance took note of a survey by Gartner that found 90% of companies who have invested in SAP to integrate their enterprise have not followed through to integrate their shop floor. This lack of integration increases manufacturing and distribution costs and reduces customer service levels. Alliance took this information to their clients in an effort to keep them operating more efficiently than their competition. 

BUSINESS CHALLENGE 
  • Integrate with SAP
  • Development of simple and usable interface for workflows creation and execution
  • Thorough verification and quality certification of product 

ALLIANCE'S APPROACH 
  • Created a core Hybrid QA Testing team with supply chain domain expertise
  • Implemented Quality Center to capture requirements, test cases, test results and defects and create traceability
  • Created detailed test strategy and plan to test with various devices supported by application
  • Introduced Control Review Board, meeting with client to analyze test coverage and conduct issue triage
  • Implemented strategy to be able to work with systems and devices located remotely at client site 

BUSINESS VALUE
  • Utilized a structured and managed testing capability that is scalable and flexible
  • Ability to ramp up and down the team size and skills required
  • The ability to test round the clock (24hr) if necessary, thereby accelerating the testing cycle and delivery of test results to development
  • Accelerated the development of test cases and scripts to meet the demand of the project
  • Achieved the highest level of system quality at the most economical cost
  • Provided coverage for system, functional and installation testing
  • Implemented automated sanity testing to test nightly builds
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