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Bombardier gets big time on the rails
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04/10/2006
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Bombardier Transportation expects to make a 30% materials saving within three years on the back of a software tool that sees and standardises data across legacy systems. The firm has squared up to an extreme challenge: after years of acquiring and consolidating businesses it had more than 70 databases in eight legacy systems containing an apparent 2.8 million parts from some 200,000 suppliers. What’s more, those were distributed as more than 9 million records in five languages.
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Brian Tinham
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