Aggregate Industries Digital Transformation Initiatives

About the Customer

Aggregate Industries are the frontline of the construction and infrastructure industries, producing and supplying an array of construction materials. With over 330 sites and more than 4100 dedicated employees, Aggregate Industries are the home to everything from aggregates, asphalt, ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete products. On top of that, they produce import and supply construction materials, export aggregates and offer national road surfacing and contracting services. 

Aggregate Industries are also a proud member of LafargeHolcim, which is the leading global building materials and solutions company with around 90,000 employees in over 80 countries. It holds leading positions in all regions with a balanced portfolio of developing and mature markets.

Scope and Challenges

Aggregate Industries provides delivery of numerous BI related transformation projects including:

• - The transition from IBM Cognos Series 7 to 8 and latterly to 10.2
• - Establishing an Enterprise Data Warehouse platform
• - Implementation of Qlik View as the strategic BI platform across the organization
• - Implementation of Qlik Sense as the Self Service BI platform for mobile users
• - Successful delivery of numerous complex BI Solutions within a variety of functional areas, encompassing all levels of the organisation from executive teams to the shop floor

Outcome and Implications

Aggregate decided to disrupt itself and its digital process by replacing Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One solution with SAP Enterprise Applications. Aggregate Led a Master Data Management, Data Migration and Reporting multi-year transformation program to standardise key business processes on a single common European IT platform made up of several market-leading solutions including SAP Ariba, Salesforce CRM, SAP ERP and Workday HCM.

Additionally, Aggregate implemented Qlik View as the strategic BI platform and Qlik Sense as the Self Service BI platform for mobile users.