Pacorini Stays on Top of the Global Logistics Market with IBM SOA Solution

Describe in your own words how IBM SOA has helped Pacorini gain competitive advantage.

Through IBM SOA, Pacorini is able to advance from the connected phase to the collaboration phase of the standardization of IT. Since this is a newer phase, Pacorini is more able to gain competitive advantage. SOA allows a higher level of simplicity for learning how to better maintain integration through standards and business process execution language. This is a step up from traditional integration. SOA also enables the development of complex applications through a top-down approach. Ready-made parts are reusable and are simple for use and maintenance because if the built-in integration.

Initially, Pacorini’s internal business processes were not integrated. Business process management (BPM) performs better with SOA. This means that Pacorini is able to identify business processes in order to divide business logic from the application. This is crucial for successful investments in IT. By streamlining the business processes, costs and response time can be decreased. This enables Pacorini to continue to sustain their competitive advantage of offering timely customer service.

Pacorini is able to reduce staffing costs through the automation of transactions due to online ordering. In time, Pacorini can also allow their customers document management, electronic bills, and online inventory information. This will enable the visibility of each stage of order fulfillment. The order information is more accurate, consistent, and conveniently available for the customer. Issues can be managed in a more efficient and cost effective manner since phone calls, emails, and faxes would be reduced. By arranging, managing, and supervising the process, Pacorini can better serve customers. Consequently, flexible