Terminales Río de la Plata S.A. Automates, Saves Hours in Reconciling Ship-Loading Data
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Terminales Río de la Plata S.A. Automates, Saves Hours in Reconciling Ship-Loading Data

Terminales Río de la Plata S.A. is one of Argentina’s leading port operators, constituted by DP World, the Latin American Infrastructure Fund, and other international partners. Located in Buenos Aires, the company operates cargo and passenger terminals 24 hours a day at its 4.6 million-square-foot facility.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Terminales Río de la Plata S.A.

  • “Having high-availability applications is vitally important to our company, and Oracle’s point-to-point solution helps us address challenges in a fully integrated way. No other vendor could have given us such a complete solution.” – Sergio Alberto Cejas, Manager of IT Services, Terminales Río de la Plata S.A.

  • Standardize the company’s technology platform to accelerate responses to customers, suppliers, customs, and the federal public revenue administration (AFIP)
  • Integrate the terminal’s operating services, business applications, and financial applications to improve the value chain and reduce lost revenue
  • Automate existing manual controls for reconciling ship-loading records to improve employee productivity

Solutions

  • Implemented Oracle Linux and Oracle VM to quickly deploy new in-house developed software, restore failed services, and avoid application downtime—vital requirements for shipping operations
  • Worked with Oracle Partner Ayi y Asociados to implement Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle WebLogic Suite, integrating the terminal’s operating services with business and financial applications, achieving greater fluidity in the marketing chain, and balancing processing loads between high-availability servers
  • Simplified IT services management with Oracle VM, improving availability and optimizing server management
  • Implemented Oracle Database 11g, Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters on Oracle Linux in just three months, achieving high availability and accelerating data import times from five hours to 30 minutes
  • Complied with Argentinean regulations, such as general customs resolution 2984 and general AFIP resolution 2904, by tightly integrating the company’s computing systems
  • Reduced time needed for reconciling shipping lists, customs manifests, and the contents of containers for each ship from two hours to a few minutes by automating manual controls and improving employee productivity

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