Korsnäs Packaging is a large, multinational paper processing company with over 20 locations across Europe, the former Soviet Union and the middle east.

• Multi-million-dollar SAP implementation was only partially successful, and prohibitively expensive to complete
  

• Executive leadership lacked: (1) visibility of business profitability metrics from sales through production; (2) benchmark measurements between similar machines at differing plants; (3) mechanisms to drive standardized sales across the multinational enterprise

Ephibian built a custom application for Korsnäs Packaging, a multinational paper processing company, to centralize sales and production data, and provide senior leadership with sorely-lacking management visibility.

Previous Korsnäs efforts to build a similar capability within the confines of SAP had cost the company $millions. In the end, the company could not maintain SAP. They learned SAP across the enterprise was cost-prohibitive, especially for the smaller markets. Ephibian built custom applications at less than 1/10 the SAP cost, and delivered a solution within 6 months.

The solution, today, integrates with and enhances the SAP implementation at the SAP-enabled plants; and supplants the SAP solution at the other locations.

Internet infrastructure does not exist in some Korsnäs markets. So Ephibian’s solution is composed of a client/server architecture:

• a mobile, PC client, used by the sales force and the smaller “dial-in” plants
  
  
• back-end web enabled applications, and a database based on IBM DB2, portable to a Linux or AS/400 environment
  
  
• Synchronization code for data exchange during “check-in”
  
  
• An administrative/executive interface consolidates data and provide critical reporting at the executive level
  
  
• A variety of measurements of profitability: the company as a whole, profitability of an individual plant, profitability of a specific machine, profitability of a sales region or individual salesman, etc.
  
  
• Equipment benchmarking across multiple plants
  
  
• Standardization of prices, margins, waste levels and products to be Sold & Produced