Islet involved in devel­op­ing Valmet’s P2P solu­tions framework

Val­met Tech­nolo­gies launched a project in Jan­u­ary last year, with the aim of estab­lish­ing a con­trolled frame­work for order-to-cash and quote-to-con­tract process­es in their cus­tomers’ P2P por­tals. The pur­pose of this frame­work was to ensure that Val­met, as a sup­pli­er, has stan­dard­ized and con­trolled set­tings, struc­tures, and process­es in place in the var­i­ous pro­cure­ment sys­tems and por­tals used by its cus­tomers. The goal was to facil­i­tate clear and effi­cient col­lab­o­ra­tion as a sup­pli­er in the cus­tomers’ sys­tems, fur­ther improve cus­tomer rela­tion­ships and sat­is­fac­tion, and to stream­line inter­ac­tions between cus­tomers and Valmet.

The project was inspired by Val­met’s cus­tomers’ need to pro­mote dig­i­tal sup­pli­er col­lab­o­ra­tion through the SAP Busi­ness Net­work. In addi­tion to SAP Ari­ba, the project also encom­passed the devel­op­ment of frame­works for Tau­lia and Coupa P2P solu­tions, which are also used in Val­met’s cus­tomer rela­tion­ships. Lea Rajala, senior con­sul­tant from Islet, has been involved in the project as an expert and coordinator.

For SAP Ari­ba, the project includ­ed assess­ment work on how to man­age Val­met as a glob­al sup­pli­er in var­i­ous SAP Busi­ness Net­works and the descrip­tion of how to inte­grate the solu­tion archi­tec­ture with the back­end sys­tems. The aim was not only to spec­i­fy inte­gra­tion sce­nar­ios but also to cre­ate a mod­el for Val­met that could be repli­cat­ed in dif­fer­ent por­tals. The frame­works and con­cepts devel­oped for the SAP Ari­ba envi­ron­ment have served as a basis for oth­er P2P solu­tions and frame­works. An essen­tial part of the devel­op­ment project was also to imple­ment a cen­tral­ized IT man­age­ment mod­el for main­tain­ing Val­met as a sup­pli­er in the dif­fer­ent P2P solutions.

The devel­oped frame­works have already been imple­ment­ed in two of Val­met’s busi­ness lines, and the cov­er­age will be com­pa­ny-wide in the future.

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Val­met is a glob­al devel­op­er and sup­pli­er of process tech­nolo­gies, automa­tion, and ser­vices for the pulp, paper, and ener­gy indus­tries. With over 220 years of indus­tri­al her­itage, the Val­met Group had a net sales of approx­i­mate­ly 5.1 bil­lion in 2022.