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Bombardier gets big time on the rails
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01/10/2005
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A goal of reducing procurement costs by 30% in three year looks set to be achieved at Bombardier Transportation, with the help of a software tool that sees into and standardises free-form data across legacy systems. The challenge at Bombardier was extreme: after years of acquiring and consolidating businesses it had 70 databases in eight legacy systems containing an apparent 2.8m parts from 200,000 suppliers. What’s more, those were filed as 9m records in five languages
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Author
Brian Tinham
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