Gone are the days of customizing tech landscapes for individual customer requirements, at least for Valvoline Global. The Lexington, Kentucky-based automotive services company has created a single point of entry that helps internal and external stakeholders meet their business requirements.
“It’s no longer just good enough to sell products; you have to sell products with IT services,” Valvoline Global director of Enterprise Architecture David Beach said. “We’re now creating a standardized framework of how to do that.”
Valvoline Global chose a “back to standard,” known as a greenfield, approach — removing custom codes and add-ons — for agility, Beach said. Instead of reacting to a business demand, which often requires lengthy development times that result in cumbersome point-to-point integrations, an experience layer can now connect vendors, customers, suppliers, distributors, and internal users within Valvoline Global’s SAP S/4HANA environment.
