Globalisation Winners hartmann: a stable Base in Europe and Beyond

Globalisation Winners

HARTMANN: A Stable Base in Europe and Beyond

• 1818: Establishment of a cotton spinning-mill in Heidenheim/Brenz (Southern Germany) by Ludwig v. Hartmann

• 1871: Break-through innovation “bleached cotton wool dressings“

• 1898: Agencies in Paris, London, New York, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Valencia, Prague, Rome

• 1968: Independent, sales 35 million EUR, 100 % in Germany

• 1972: Establishment of the first foreign subsidiary company in France

• 1996: 12 subsidiary companies after taking over HARTMANN RICO (Czech Republic) and IVF (Switzerland), 5000 employees, 0,7 billion EUR sales

• 2002: Subsidiary companies in 30 countries, 9.750 employees and 1,15 billion EUR sales in 2001

HARTMANN: Geographical Overview I (1997)

HARTMANN: Geographical Overview II (2001)

HARTMANN: Three Business Units

The earnings performance of the HARTMANN Group

HARTMANN‘s Employee Growth Mainly in the International Field

Without Strategy Success Will Become a Matter of Chance

Hartmann and IBM/CM

• IBM always strategic Partner beginning with typewriters

• 2000: Migration SAP R2 from Mainframe to AIX based on DB2

• 2001: Evaluation of IBM Content Manager as a Archiving System for SAP

• 01.01.2002: Start archiving invoices from SAP to CM

• 01.03.2002: Start archiving Notes-Attachments to CM

• 01.10.2002: Start archiving delivery notes from SAP to CM

• 01.01.2003: Start archiving incoming documents for a certain facility

• 01.03.2003: Start Project Corporate Legal with MyCoRe

• CM is now only used for archiving, but beginning with 2003 it will be

• more used as a Document Management System!

System Overview

• ERP: SAP 4.5B – 4.6C

• Platform: AIX 4.3.3 – 5L

• Hardware: ca. 25 Aix-Systems + Regatta with 12GB RAM and 8 CPU

• Database: IBM DB2

• Backup: Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2

• File/Print: Windows

• Mail: Lotus Domino/Notes on Windows NT

• Platform: Windows NT with Citrix Metaframe 1.8

• Hardware: ca. 100 PC-Server (50 for Citrix) ca. 1000 User with Thin Clients working with Citrix and SAPGUI

System Overview

Document Management

• System: IBM Content Manager 7.1.10 + IBM Commonstore for SAP/NOTES

• Platform: AIX 4.3.3 ML9

• Hardware: p660, 4 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 2 FC-Controller ->ESS(100GB) IBM Jukebox 3995, 4 Drives, max. 258 Worms ->1,3TB

• Database: IBM DB2 7.1 FP6

• Storage: Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2

Documents stored in Content Manager

Documents retrieved from Content Manager

Coming Projects with Content Manager “Sanimed” - Archiving incoming Documents

• Ca. 1000 Documents a day in 15 branches will be scanned and archived through Commonstore to CM

• Archived Documents will be assigned in to SAP records after Scanning (late Scanning)

• Several Documents can be printed in central office, to be sent to a billing company

• Goals:

• Avoiding many copies on paper

• Faster response time, because documents could be printed out everywhere and need not to be sent by post

• Less time waste with sorting papers, because Documents are already assigned to the right SAP record

Coming Projects with Content Manager Corporate Legal – MyCoRe (?)

• Manage documents concerning corporate legal, like contracts, statutes …

• Manage Information for each facility, branch, like name, country, contact persons, shareholder value…

• Goals:

• Showing dependencies between facilities

• Making research easier and faster, i.e. in which facilities Mr.X is a contact person

• Publish information to intra/internet

• Using MyCoRe-features like cross reference, versioning and rights management

Conclusion MyCoRe/Miless – a solution for industry?

• Miless already fits for many aspects in corporate document management

• Miless seems to be stable enough to hold also critical documents

• Miless is principly cheap, if the data model fits your needs

• MyCoRe will be a solution for nearly any aspect

• MyCoRe is easy to adapt to nearly every data model

• There is a good knowledge base in universities which perhaps could be also made transparent in an electronic way

• Industry can participate in Universities work in MyCoRe. They get a free product and by using it, they give the community more power.

• The bigger the installed base of MyCoRe is, the better the results would be and the more features could be implemented

• IBM should invest in bringing MyCoRe also to industrial customers!