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Fiorano powers Digital Transformation at French logistics giant, Fraikin
French logistics giant, Fraikin is a leading provider of commercial vehicle fleet services in Europe, providing fleet management, contract hire and rental solutions with other support services to over 7000 clients in the private & public sector. The Fraikin Group operates 230 integrated services and manages in excess of 60,000 vehicles.
Fiorano powers Digital Transformation at French logistics giant, Fraikin
French logistics giant, Fraikin is a leading provider of commercial vehicle fleet services in Europe, providing fleet management, contract hire and rental solutions with other support services to over 7000 clients in the private & public sector. The Fraikin Group operates 230 integrated services and manages in excess of 60,000 vehicles.
USE CASE
Government regulatory. Legacy integration
BENEFITS
Timely Compliance. Inventory optimization
INDUSTRY
Logistics
KEY PRODUCT COMPONENTS
Fiorano SOA Platform
Business Challenge
Traffic fine management systems:
With a large fleet of vehicles on the road, incidents of traffic violation are not uncommon. Fraikin was receiving more than 12,000 fine tickets per year, including parking and speeding tickets. On receipt of fine tickets by post, Fraikin had to manually search clients' credentials for the hired vehicles to determine the responsible party and then forward these tickets to them, a process that was fraught with delays and errors.
With the implementation of an electronic system of fine management by the Government of France, Fraikin was given a set of specifications to develop an application to facilitate electronic communication between them and Government. This included mandatory communication of, Fraikin's fleet to the Government twice a year, modification every week and quick processing of traffic penalties or fines. The biggest challenge for Fraikin was to build a rapidly deployable integrated platform, which would meet all the requirements specified by the government.
Legacy applications for inventory:
Fraikin operates over 230 integrated service facilities across Europe. With parts information and inventory levels changing with every purchase / usage at various warehouses spread across geographic locations, the challenge lies in effectively updating and maintaining stock of hundreds of these parts. With various legacy systems in place, there was a strong need for a flexible, versatile integration platform that would encompass the existing applications and provide an easy means of access to these for newer technologies.
>60,000
Vehicles operated
Fiorano platform enables Fraikin
to constantly innovate by
digital transformation of its business.
Business Challenge
Traffic fine management systems:
With a large fleet of vehicles on the road, incidents of traffic violation are not uncommon. Fraikin was receiving more than 12,000 fine tickets per year, including parking and speeding tickets. On receipt of fine tickets by post, Fraikin had to manually search clients' credentials for the hired vehicles to determine the responsible party and then forward these tickets to them, a process that was fraught with delays and errors.
With the implementation of an electronic system of fine management by the Government of France, Fraikin was given a set of specifications to develop an application to facilitate electronic communication between them and Government. This included mandatory communication of, Fraikin's fleet to the Government twice a year, modification every week and quick processing of traffic penalties or fines. The biggest challenge for Fraikin was to build a rapidly deployable integrated platform, which would meet all the requirements specified by the government.
Legacy applications for inventory:
Fraikin operates over 230 integrated service facilities across Europe. With parts information and inventory levels changing with every purchase / usage at various warehouses spread across geographic locations, the challenge lies in effectively updating and maintaining stock of hundreds of these parts. With various legacy systems in place, there was a strong need for a flexible, versatile integration platform that would encompass the existing applications and provide an easy means of access to these for newer technologies.
>60,000
Vehicles operated
Fiorano platform enables Fraikin
to constantly innovate by
digital transformation of its business.
"We collaborated with Fiorano while implementing the integration platform at Fraikin and were able to meet timelines of Government-mandated regulations and also optimize our warehousing inventory management."
Franck Lerivrain, Development Manager, Fraikin
"We collaborated with Fiorano while implementing the integration platform at Fraikin and were able to meet timelines of Government-mandated regulations and also optimize our warehousing inventory management."
Franck Lerivrain, Development Manager, Fraikin
Solution
Fraikin has a multi-platform environment including Windows machines and an IBM z/OS mainframe Main client records and vehicles records are stored in the mainframe DB2 database. In order to build a scalable integration platform and to leverage on existing hardware, Fraikin decided to deploy the Fiorano Hybrid Integration Platform.
Fraikin used Fiorano to develop a series of event processes to exchange and proc Fiorano SOA platform with its diverse set of adapters is being used to unify and merge data from different sources and formats into one unified repository.
Solution
Fraikin has a multi-platform environment including Windows machines and an IBM z/OS mainframe Main client records and vehicles records are stored in the mainframe DB2 database. In order to build a scalable integration platform and to leverage on existing hardware, Fraikin decided to deploy the Fiorano Hybrid Integration Platform.
Fraikin used Fiorano to develop a series of event processes to exchange and proc Fiorano SOA platform with its diverse set of adapters is being used to unify and merge data from different sources and formats into one unified repository.
Fiorano Deployment Architecture at Fraikin
Using Fiorano Event process flows for the Traffic fine management system
Fraikin was able to quickly meet deadlines for integration of the French Government’s traffic management program with its backend systems by deploying Fiorano Event flows.
Event Process Flow 1: The first process flow was constructed to enable communication of Fraikin's fleet to the French police, twice a year. This process converts the flat file provided by the mainframe into an XML file, which is verified against the government specified schema.
Event Process Flow 2: Built to communicate fleet modifications every week. These flows help the French Police keep records of the vehicle fleet.
Event Process Flow 3: To receive fine notifications by the French Traffic Authority. This flow retrieves and processes the XML file sent by the French Police on a daily basis. This XML file is split into messages and each message becomes a Web Service request sent to the mainframe, where the DB2 database is updated.
Event Process Flow 4: Constructed to facilitate Fraikin's response to the government, communicating the credentials of companies hiring Fraikin's fleet at the time of penalty. A flat file with responses to the demands in DB2 are written by the mainframe, and converted to XML, and submitted to the Police via FTP.
Event Process Flow 5: Created to manage errors in reporting in case of rejection of responses by Fraikin, sent in event process 4. In such cases, this flow 5 receives the errors and processes them.
Fiorano SOA Platform facilitates Inventory and Facility Management for Fraikin
Fiorano SOA platform with its diverse set of adapters is being used to unify and merge data from different sources and formats into one unified repository. The data (as raw text) across different transports including emails, flat files over FTP, shared file systems are culled into the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), converted to appropriate formats using the powerful set of transformation adapters and routed to appropriate data channels.
Fraikin's existing legacy applications are integrated into this platform and exposed to the standards gateway using Fiorano's standard based pre-build adapters. This lets Fraikin's partner and service facility applications to co-exist with the legacy applications.
Fiorano Deployment Architecture at Fraikin
Using Fiorano Event process flows for the Traffic fine management system
Fraikin was able to quickly meet deadlines for integration of the French Government’s traffic management program with its backend systems by deploying Fiorano Event flows.
Event Process Flow 1: The first process flow was constructed to enable communication of Fraikin's fleet to the French police, twice a year. This process converts the flat file provided by the mainframe into an XML file, which is verified against the government specified schema.
Event Process Flow 2: Built to communicate fleet modifications every week. These flows help the French Police keep records of the vehicle fleet.
Event Process Flow 3: To receive fine notifications by the French Traffic Authority. This flow retrieves and processes the XML file sent by the French Police on a daily basis. This XML file is split into messages and each message becomes a Web Service request sent to the mainframe, where the DB2 database is updated.
Event Process Flow 4: Constructed to facilitate Fraikin's response to the government, communicating the credentials of companies hiring Fraikin's fleet at the time of penalty. A flat file with responses to the demands in DB2 are written by the mainframe, and converted to XML, and submitted to the Police via FTP.
Event Process Flow 5: Created to manage errors in reporting in case of rejection of responses by Fraikin, sent in event process 4. In such cases, this flow 5 receives the errors and processes them.
Fiorano SOA Platform facilitates Inventory and Facility Management for Fraikin
Fiorano SOA platform with its diverse set of adapters is being used to unify and merge data from different sources and formats into one unified repository. The data (as raw text) across different transports including emails, flat files over FTP, shared file systems are culled into the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), converted to appropriate formats using the powerful set of transformation adapters and routed to appropriate data channels.
Fraikin's existing legacy applications are integrated into this platform and exposed to the standards gateway using Fiorano's standard based pre-build adapters. This lets Fraikin's partner and service facility applications to co-exist with the legacy applications.
Results
Fiorano enabled Fraikin to quickly put in place an infrastructure that was compliant with the new Government regulation of electronic communication for traffic fine management and reporting. With accurate and error-free record management of its extensive fleet of vehicles for the French Traffic Police. Adding on quick and error-free processing of traffic fine notification, including receipt of the notifications, response to the latter while directing the Police to the respective companies hiring Fraikin fleet at the time of traffic violation.
Fraikin is at the vanguard of smart services in subcontracting and vehicle fleet management and adopting smart technology enables it to constantly innovate and evolve to help its customers meet the needs of their clientèle.
Results
Fiorano enabled Fraikin to quickly put in place an infrastructure that was compliant with the new Government regulation of electronic communication for traffic fine management and reporting. With accurate and error-free record management of its extensive fleet of vehicles for the French Traffic Police. Adding on quick and error-free processing of traffic fine notification, including receipt of the notifications, response to the latter while directing the Police to the respective companies hiring Fraikin fleet at the time of traffic violation.
Fraikin is at the vanguard of smart services in subcontracting and vehicle fleet management and adopting smart technology enables it to constantly innovate and evolve to help its customers meet the needs of their clientèle.
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