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Festo AG
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Festo AG & Co. KG is a global market leader in the area of automation with pneumatics. Founded in 1925, the company originally focused on manufacturing machines for wood processing. In 1955 Festo recognized the potential of pneumatics and started manufacturing. Today, the company has more than 10,000 employees at 250 sites in 176 countries.
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- Consolidated IT (data centers, hardware, software and storage) at a central site
- Reduce IT costs and complexity
- Maintain leadership in rapid fulfillment while reducing inventories
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- Consolidated IT (data centers, hardware, software and storage) at a central site
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- Migrated IBM mainframe systems using MVS to HP servers running HP-UX 11i
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- Introduced integral applications, including SAP solutions, to the environment
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Results |
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- Standardized and streamlined all company processes
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- Drastically reduced inventories and warehousing costs despite increase in sales and product range
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- Achieved 19 percent reduction in inventory
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- Reduced logistics costs from 11.6 percent to 7.9 percent
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- Improved customer services substantially
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