DIGITAL ELEMENT - creating leading products

About the Client

UMMC (Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company) is Russia’s largest metallurgical and mining holding uniting the production of copper cathodes, nonferrous mill products, cable industry and power station coal.

The holding is listed as on of the strategic organizations in Russia uniting more than 50 enterprises in the mining industry, non-ferrous metallurgy, mechanical engineering and metal processing, as well as in iron and steel metallurgy, construction, agriculture, telecommunications, cable and coal industries across 12 regions of Russia, the Czech Republic and Lithuania.

Goals

The objective was to fundamentally change the purchasing business processes throughout the holding in line with the digital transformation initiative by introducing a corporate marketplace.

Tasks

Cost reduction
Functional flexibility improvement
Business process optimization
Processes acceleration
Reduced time to market

Process

Solution

Building a fault-tolerant and reliable project architecture that is ready to handle large data volumes and high load;

Pre-project survey and purchasing business processes alignment across the holding;

Creating a monobus for integration with the holding accounting systems (SAP, 1C, etc.);

Creating a unified marketplace authentication system for all enterprises;

Creating a connection interface for new enterprises of the holding;

Creating a connection interface for new suppliers;

Creating individual supplier accounts for interaction with all enterprises of the holding;

Creating a marketplace API for integration with supplier accounting systems (Rest API);

Developing new functionality according to prioritized business requirements;

Developing mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Results

The UMMC corporate marketplace is released in full and continues to develop rapidly, significantly expanding its functionality and business processes.

Thanks to the digital transformation of purchasing throughout the holding, the following goals were achieved in 2022:

> 50 connected enterprises of the holding

> 5,000 users

> 1 million products from suppliers

> 10,000 orders per month

> 100,000 ordered items per month

> 20 large supplier companies

Customer feedback

We express our gratitude to Digital Element for the successful implementation of the internal online store (marketplace) project.
The “Digital Element” team coped with the task perfectly and quickly, applied Scrum, which made it possible to solve problems on time and perform unscheduled work.
We note the high professionalism of the Digital Element employees, responsibility and reliability in partnerships. We wish the Digital Element prosperity and new worthy projects!

Bolshakov K.O.

Information Technology Director

Supplier Management System & B2B Marketplace

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