Introduction
This case study of Minerals and Metals Group is based on a September 2016 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
Rev-Trac Case Study
This case study of Minerals and Metals Group is based on a September 2016 survey of Rev-Trac customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
“The software and tools that come with Rev-Trac are fantastic for managing change across our SAP landscapes.”
Minerals and Metals Group (MMG) is an Australian-Chinese global resources company employing more than 5,500 people with over $US 2 billion in revenue and over $US 14 billion in assets. MMG is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and explores, develops, and mines base metal deposits around the world.
As part of its automation initiative, MMG decided to implement a release management strategy and needed a fool-proof process to manage significant upgrade projects. Running an extensive SAP IT infrastructure, they knew their existing manual non-automated SAP change control process was no longer going to help them meet business and industry growth demands.
After evaluating SAP’s ChaRM functionality, Minerals and Metals Group selected Rev-Trac — an SAP DevOps platform — to implement a release management strategy, simplify the SAP change control process overall, and assist in managing future upgrades or other significant projects.
Planning is also underway to adopt Agile/DevOps principles for SAP change management, in which Rev-Trac will also play a key role.
Following the selection process and the decision to implement Rev-Trac, the solution was productive within three months. Now several years on, the company has achieved its initial goals with remarkable results:
Before implementing Rev-Trac, between 7 and 10 potentially dangerous overtake and/or overwrite situations reached production each month. Fixing these errors could take almost two hours, which is a considerable loss in productivity before even accounting for the potential risk of downtime. Rev-Trac’s OOPS (Overtake and Overwrite Protection System) functionality eliminates this risk, returning lost productivity and increasing system confidence.
Additionally, the company has benefited from a significant increase (up to 69%) in the volumes of change managed by the team and a 70% reduction in time spent on audit tasks. Minerals and Metals Group continues fine-tuning their Agile Dev/Ops strategy using Rev-Trac’s workflow automation, superior conflict management, and extended locking functions.
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