COSCO Shipping giant surges into new markets with IBM and SAP IBM SAP Alliance COSCO Shipping giant surges into new markets with IBM and SAP The need: COSCO wanted to stimulate business growth and boost its competitiveness against the backdrop of the worldwide economic slowdown. The group decided to diversify into the profitable door-to-door logistics market by acquiring and merging existing providers into the group. The acquisitions resulted in diverse and unwieldy financial systems, preventing the flow of performance information throughout the group. The solution: COSCO Net (Beijing) Co., Ltd. implemented SAP ERP applications for finance at its datacenters in China, Europe, America and Japan – consolidating COSCO’s business operations to the company headquarters. To mitigate the business risk of an outage to its centralized systems, and to ensure strict regulatory compliance, COSCO Net deployed IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows with the high availability disaster recovery (HADR) feature. “By centralizing its international operations with solutions from IBM and SAP, COSCO has gained the ability to extend its operations into profitable new markets.” — Yongqi Liu, Deputy Director at the Data Network Management Centre, COSCO Net (Beijing) Co., Ltd Solution components: IBM® Power Systems™ servers, System x3850 X5, System Storage® DS8000, AIX®, DB2®, Tivoli® System Automation for Multiplatforms SAP ERP, FI, CRM, SCM, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse The benefits: Introduced new offerings, increased revenues and accessed new markets cost-efficiently. Enabled high availability for the group’s mission-critical centralized systems. Supported growth and enhanced competitiveness in challenging economic conditions. Link SPP03169-CNEN-00