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ArcelorMittal Gent gains control over process workflow with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

IBM SAP International Competence Center

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“ The RFP listed in very specific terms the functionality needed to resolve pressing and frustrating problems and weaknesses that existed with our current mix of internally developed and product-specific scheduling tools. Tivoli Workload Scheduler had unique and powerful functionality that allowed us to not only solve all of the problems and challenges but could do things that we could only dream about before. The results exceeded our expectations.”

Ann Muys

SAP Systems Specialist

ArcelorMittal Gent

“ We were able to reduce workflow implementation times by roughly one third.”

Ann Muys

SAP Systems Specialist

ArcelorMittal Gent

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ArcelorMittal Gent gains control over process workflow with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Job interception allows tasks to be prioritized according to •business rules

Job throttling helps to improve the SAP scheduling •efficiency and reduce the batch window for SAP jobs to a

minimum.

Variant handling allows dynamic modification of jobs and •priorities when required

Automation and scheduling of event creation to start and •stop jobs

Flexible and detailed priority classes for scheduling and •coordination

Ability to connect with multiple applications on different •platforms

Standardizing to Tivoli Workload Scheduler reduces the •number of products required to connect SAP and other

applications, and provides a shared interface that is easier

to use and more productive to operate

Reviewing and optimizing business workflows and •processes during the migration to Tivoli Workload

Scheduler itself has a beneficial effect on the design of the

underlying business processes

Tivoli Workflow Scheduler makes it easier to optimize code •and workflow processes for new business executive

requests, by identifying dependencies and business

priorities as part of the wider enterprise workload.

Detailed feedback on performance allows developers to •optimize existing workload using current processor,

memory and bandwidth resources, rather than investing in

additional hardware

Integration with IBM Tivoli Workload Manager offers the •prospect of managing workload and data storage from a

shared interface across the enterprise.

Customer Objectives

Intercept, optimize and manage submitted workload •containing essential commercial data from operations units

Ensure business-critical reports due at 8.00am are •delivered on time every day

Keep financial data up-to-date for executives •Automate workflow control over both SAP and third-party •applications

Enable an overview of processes across multiple source •and destination systems

Cut the costs of managing a highly variable processing •workload

Meet agreed service levels for delivery of business •information

Increase business efficiency and achieve operational •targets.

IBM Solution

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.5.1 •IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for Applications 8.5 •Four IBM Power 570 servers each with 16 POWER5 •processors

Four IBM Power 550 servers each with eight POWER6 •processors

IBM System Storage DS8100.•

About this paper

This paper describes how ArcelorMittal Gent is driving its manufacturing and business systems more effectively by introducing

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler to control very large numbers of highly variable processing tasks.

Customer Benefits

Essential reporting and online dashboards for monitoring •and control can be achieved by scheduling workload

effectively

Business service levels can be achieved by exploiting •existing capacity to the maximum with Tivoli Workload

Scheduler, avoiding unnecessary investment in hardware

capacity

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To take invoice generation as an example, using the data from

the production plants, the central SAP applications produce

daily invoice runs. If the file processing is not completed in time,

then sales will be missed from an invoice run, which in turn could

delay payment. Because most customers have specific payment

terms based on calendar months, a delay of a couple of days in

producing invoices could have significant knock-on effects in

terms of payment date and cashflow.

The commercial data in the files is extracted overnight from the

local systems, consolidated centrally, and provided to managers

and executives as standard reports by 8.00am the next day. The

reports contain historic as well as current data, which helps

management make informed decisions on likely demand and

compare performance against forecast.

As the files arrived, they were added to the appropriate queue for

processing on an ad-hoc basis. There was no way to predict the

arrival times of the files, and no way to balance the demands of

importing the new data against the requirements to continue with

day-to-day processing needs and provide acceptable system

performance.

To minimize the impact on production systems, the ArcelorMittal

Gent team analyzed the total workload, and intervened to halt or

enable processing queues. Typically it would make sense to

complete smaller and faster jobs first, depending on the urgency

and importance of the task and whether it affected the critical

management reports. The systems administration work was

gradually rising, and occasionally manual errors were

introduced. Without an automated solution, valuable time was

being lost, and business users were not being well served.

Background, starting point and objectives

About ArcelorMittal Gent

ArcelorMittal is one of the world’s leading steel companies, with

operations in more than 60 countries, serving the automotive,

construction, household appliances and packaging markets. In

2009, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $65.1 billion and crude steel

production of 73.2 million tonnes, representing approximately 8

percent of world steel output.

ArcelorMittal Gent in Belgium specializes in developing

innovative steel products, production processes, finishes and

coatings, using sophisticated mathematical models combined

with advanced production facilities. The software systems play a

crucial role in controlling the product quality and in the efficient

operation of the production process, which includes the logistics

and production scheduling.

Some 15 percent of ArcelorMittal Gent’s research and

development investment is directed towards environmentally-

friendly measures. For example, each cubic meter of water is

reused 25 times to help minimize environmental impact.

Business challenges and project objectives

ArcelorMittal Gent runs a somewhat federated business model.

The individual plants are responsible for production planning,

quality and operations, while sales orders, finances and

administration are carried out centrally.

Details of sales orders, purchases and the related operational

data are transferred from local systems to the central SAP

applications as a series of files for processing. The local systems

are a mix of SAP, custom, legacy and third-party solutions. On

some days, more than 2,000 files might arrive, containing

valuable sales, financial, quality and similar data, destined to be

analyzed and imported into the core SAP systems.

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ArcelorMittal Gent had deployed a mix of monitoring and

scheduling tools to automate as much of the work as possible,

but with multiple interfaces and different connectors to the

underlying applications, this approach soon became part of the

same problem. Changing process workflows was slow and

difficult, and there was no single view of end-to-end processes

spanning several systems. IT staff productivity was impacted as

they tried to discover and rectify root causes of issues – for

example where data had not been delivered to a dependent

system – and executives were frustrated at the sometimes slow

and irregular delivery of reports.

Without centralized control of the workflow, the IT team found

themselves at the mercy of the users. If a user sent a stream of

very large files for processing, this new workload could

significantly impact, and in some cases even halt, production

tasks, as the initial task might spawn multiple sub-tasks that

could not then be interrupted.

The ArcelorMittal Gent team wanted to:

Intercept, optimize and manage submitted workload •

Automate workflow control over both SAP and third- •

party applications

Enable an overview of processes across multiple •

source and destination systems

Cut the costs of managing a highly variable processing •

workload

Meet agreed service levels for delivery of business •

information

Increase business efficiency and achieve operational •

targets.

The SAP applications at ArcelorMittal Gent are running on IBM

Power 570 servers with IBM POWER5 processors and on IBM

Power 550 servers with IBM POWER6 processors, with IBM

System Storage DS8100 for data storage. The Gent location runs

some 80 SAP instances, supporting up to 4,000 users for

ArcelorMittal in Western Europe.

Initial IT environment

In many cases, independent manufacturing systems must

complete specific tasks before the next step in the process

becomes possible, and information generated from each area

must be forwarded reliably and rapidly from application to

application. During production, the systems create valuable

data, for example on sales order progress, inventory and raw

materials requirements. ArcelorMittal Gent uses SAP ERP

applications and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to

capture and analyze this information, and combine it with

financial, logistics and other operational data, to provide

managers with a complete picture of business performance.

The existing environment relied on the scheduling capabilities of

the SAP software, extensive scripting, calendar-driven programs

and basic application scheduling. This mixture of in-house,

third-party and SAP event-driven process control was difficult to

manage, and required constant attention from the IT team.

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The IBM solution

ArcelorMittal Gent prepared a detailed RFP document,

providing examples of the processing workload in terms of

numbers of files, arrival times and the target schedules. The RFP

included analysis of the existing systems and the dependencies

of the SAP and third-party applications.

Because a sales order for a specific product might be fulfilled

from a manufacturing plant many thousands of miles away from

the customer, all the ArcelorMittal Gent divisions exchange data

to a greater or lesser extent, and all the operations report their

financial and administrative data to the headquarters location.

Although the RFP applied to ArcelorMittal in Gent in Belgium and

to Dunkirk in France, these two were chosen as Proof of Concept

sites with a view to extending a successful solution globally.

The objective was to provide a global view of all job schedules

and status, and identify dependencies of the SAP applications

awaiting data from external applications, and the dependencies

of the third-party software awaiting data from SAP applications.

ArcelorMittal Gent selected IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler to

act as the single point of control for all its workload scheduling,

spanning SAP and external applications and across the IBM

Power Systems platform, mainframe and distributed systems.

IBM created a pilot solution that would demonstrate the

capabilities offered by IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, covering

approximately 10 percent of the jobs submitted. On this basis,

the ArcelorMittal Gent team took the opportunity to plan the

larger implementation to best advantage. In particular, the

ArcelorMittal Gent looked at specific workflow and scheduling

issues and mapped them to the Tivoli Workload Scheduler

solution and discovered how the challenges could be resolved.

ArcelorMittal Gent selected four IBM Power 570 servers each

with 16 POWER5 processors, and four IBM Power 550 servers

each with eight POWER6 processors. The Power servers are

both divided into logical partitions (LPARs), sized to provide the

most efficient combination of processor, memory and bandwidth

to support the applications in each LPAR. The system shares the

total resources across the LPARs, assigning greater capacity

during a particular LPAR’s peak workload and then reassigning

that capacity elsewhere as demand shifts. This allows

ArcelorMittal Gent to maximize the workload throughput with the

most cost-efficient system design.

Figure 1: ArcelorMittal Gent operates this server landscape for its

principal SAP and other business applications:

SAP Landscape

Production DB+ CI- Entitled CPU : 6- Virtual CPU : 12- Memory : 34 GB

AS (Dialog)- Entitled CPU : 2- Virtual CPU : 6- Memory : 22 GB

AS (Dialog)- Entitled CPU : 2- Virtual CPU : 6- Memory : 22 GB

AS (Batch)- Entitled CPU : 2.8- Virtual CPU : 5- Memory : 22 GB

AS (Batch)- Entitled CPU : 2.8- Virtual CPU : 5- Memory : 22 GB

Acceptance

DB+ CI- Entitled CPU : 0.8- Virtual CPU : 4- Memory : 18 GB

Business TestingDB+ CI- Entitled CPU : 2.7- Virtual CPU : 6- Memory : 18 GB

IT Testing

Development

DB+ CI- Entitled CPU : 0.4- Virtual CPU : 2- Memory : 8 GB

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Job Interception

For ArcelorMittal Gent, the job interception capabilities of Tivoli

Workload Scheduler have produced the greatest transformative

effects. All tasks arrive at Tivoli Workload Scheduler, which

intercepts potentially disruptive batch processes. Each job is

assigned a priority according to pre-set policies based on the

nature of the job, which ensures that workload across the entire

system is processed according to business rules rather than

submitted time.

Job Interception is a feature of the SAP BC-XBP 2.0 interface. It

enables Tivoli Workload Scheduler to have a very sophisticated

control over the jobs launched by SAP users from the SAP

graphical interface.

The job interception mechanism becomes active when the SAP

job scheduler is about to start an SAP job, and examines the

start conditions. It checks the job parameters (job name, creator,

client) against the entries in the SAP table TBCICPT1, and when

the job parameters match the criteria, the SAP job is set back to

the scheduled status and is marked with a special flag, denoting

that the job has been intercepted.

Technical Solution in detail

ArcelorMittal Gent is using multiple Tivoli Workload Scheduler

SAP scheduling functionalities to monitor and manage SAP jobs,

with Tivoli Workload Scheduler 8.5.1 and Tivoli Workload

Scheduler for Applications 8.5.

The key deciding functionalities in favor of IBM Tivoli Workload

Scheduler were:

Job interception, which allows tasks to be prioritized •

according to business rules

Job throttling, which helps to improve the SAP •

scheduling efficiency and reduce the batch window for

SAP jobs to a minimum

Variant handling allows dynamic modification of jobs •

and priorities when required

Automation and scheduling of event creation to start •

and stop jobs

Flexible and detailed priority classes for scheduling •

and coordination

Scheduled reporting and online dashboards for •

monitoring and control

Ability to connect with multiple applications on different •

platforms.

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If Tivoli Workload Scheduler has been set up to handle job

interception, it periodically runs its own job to retrieve a list of

intercepted jobs and reschedules them. This job can be referred

to as the interception collector job.

To enable the Job Interception feature, run ABAP report

INITXBP2. This report shows you the current status of the job

interception and parent-child features, and allows you to toggle

the status of both features.

Because intercepted jobs remain in the scheduled status until

they are relaunched, you need to define a Tivoli Workload

Scheduler job that uses the SAP interception collector task to

collect and restart them.

Figure 2: SAP Job Interception table. The SAP Job Interception

criteria can be set via Tivoli Workload Scheduler interface.

Job Throttling

The job throttling feature will help ArcelorMittal Gent to improve

the efficiency of scheduling on SAP systems and reduce the

batch window for SAP jobs to a minimum. Using advanced XBP

2.0 and 3.0 functions, such as the job interception and parent-

child, the job throttler function ensures that the SAP system is not

overloaded and the number of released jobs does not exceed the

total number of SAP background work processes in the system.

Job Throttler is a Java tool that uses JCo (Java SAP Connector),

enquiring intercepted jobs and releasing them when the

background work processes that they need on the SAP server or

SAP server group are available. The queue of intercepted jobs is

sorted by scheduling time and priority. When the SAP parent-child

feature is enabled, child jobs inherit their progenitor’s priority so

that new urgent jobs are run before other planned jobs.

The most interesting use of this feature is that the Job Throttler can

be configured to have the intercepted job inherit the priority class

from its progenitor (the top-level job in the hierarchy), if the

progenitor class is higher than the intercepted job class. This

setting automatically enables the parent-child feature on the SAP

system.

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SAP Job Variants

Tivoli Workload Scheduler allows the team to handle job variants

on-the-fly, enabling changed business priorities to be reflected

immediately. For example, the names of inbound files sent by

other users do not necessarily follow the agreed conventions,

and the existing priorities or rules for that job may not meet

current needs.

Tivoli Workload Scheduler enables the team to change filenames

and over-rule priorities and variants for a single or group of jobs,

without having to rewrite each individual job and ensuring that

the correct conditions are passed to the SAP applications.

The priority classes are based on operational roles of the

submitter, workload type and forecast total run time, offering a

very great deal of fine-grained control. The policies take account

of the business priorities, and Tivoli Workload Scheduler enables

intelligent scheduling of workload to ensure that user requests

are met as promptly as possible.

For example, a low-priority job that is known to run quickly can

be scheduled before a high-priority job that will take several

hours to complete, where there is sufficient time to ensure that

both jobs will be finished within agreed service levels. The Tivoli

Workload Scheduler Interface allows ArcelorMittal to create/

modify/delete standard SAP Jobs. This includes the functionality

to manage the variant definition of SAP jobs. For each job variant

details are available.

Dynamically Created Jobs

ArcelorMittal Gent will be looking at the use of dynamically

created jobs. At submission time, Tivoli Workload Scheduler can

create “on-the-fly” a new background job on SAP and submit it.

The dynamically created background job is used for that

submission only. The Tivoli Workload Scheduler job definition

contains all the information needed to create an SAP

background job (such as the steps, print parameters). The

information is stored in the Tivoli Workload Scheduler database,

and at the same time it is possible overwrite a template SAP job

from the SAP database with new values from Tivoli Workload

Scheduler.

Event Handling

To monitor system and job conditions, Tivoli Workload Scheduler

delivers scheduled reports and online dashboards for IT team

and business unit use. The reports and dashboards include the

ability to drill down to the underlying data, which enables teams

to identify the processes and dependencies of each job, should

an issue arise.

Job Dependencies are prerequisites that must be satisfied

before a job or job stream can start. Internetwork dependencies

are dependencies checked by the extended agent workstation

to which they belong. In response to an internetwork

dependency, the SAP extended agent checks for the

occurrence of the SAP background event specified in the

dependency. As soon as the SAP event is raised, the SAP

extended agent commits the event and instructs Tivoli Workload

Scheduler to resolve the corresponding internetwork

dependency.

Only the SAP background events stored in the SAP event history

table are considered by Tivoli Workload Scheduler to check for

internetwork dependencies resolution. As a prerequisite, the

SAP administrator must create the appropriate event history

profiles and criteria on the target SAP system.

Figure 3: An example of the panel: view/edit/modify a variant

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Tivoli Workload Scheduler event handling allows single point of

monitoring and control for batch workload and batch

environments.

Monitor workload jobs events (e.g. job start/end) and •

alerts (i.e. job in error, late, long)

Monitor events related to scheduling SAP application •

and infrastructure health

Monitoring of SAP business critical jobs, critical path, •

critical predecessors, risk level.

Tivoli Workload Scheduler provides automation and scheduling

for both SAP applications and external work requests. Tivoli

Workload Scheduler comes with pre-built connectors for an

extensive range of applications, removing the need to write

custom software each time the ArcelorMittal Gent team wishes

to integrate a new business acquisition. This significantly

reduces the in-house IT developer workload, and provides a

common, central interface for all workload scheduling tasks.

Figure 4: Triggering SAP events from Tivoli Workload Scheduler

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Reporting and analysis

Tivoli Workload Scheduler includes reporting and analysis tools

capable of monitoring the entire job workload. As part of

production processes, reports are generated which show

summary or detail information about the previous or next

production day. These reports can also be generated ad-hoc.

For ArcelorMittal Gent, these reports show job statistics and

production summaries for operational and business functions to

allow the team to compare past performance and adjust future

workload.

Central planning and calendar

Another important Tivoli Workload Scheduler option used by

ArcelorMittal Gent is the central planning and calendar

functionality.

A calendar is a list of scheduling dates. Each calendar can be

assigned to multiple job streams. Assigning a calendar to a job

stream causes that job stream to run on the dates specified in the

calendar. A calendar can be used as an inclusive or as an

exclusive run cycle, which helps ArcelorMittal Gent to align the

workload to local calendar needs and dependencies.

More Tivoli– Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli System Automation

Alongside the Tivoli Workload Scheduling solution, ArcelorMittal

Gent uses Tivoli Storage Manager and Tivoli System Automation

software to help manage its wider application environment.

ArcelorMittal Gent uses IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, with its

wide range of storage management capabilities, to address

business continuity, by helping to shorten backup and recovery

times and helping to maximize application availability with

advanced data recovery management technologies.

Tivoli Storage Manager helps to control storage management

costs with ease-of-use features, and to increase visibility into the

data protection environment by providing advanced features for

operational monitoring and historical reporting.

To improve the availability of the SAP database servers,

ArcelorMittal Gent uses Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise

Resource Planning (ERP), which reduces the SAP database

administration workload through automated data protection

designed for SAP environments.

Tivoli Storage Manager for ERP is an SAP Certified solution,

supporting large-volume data backups and recovery, data

cloning and disaster recovery of multiple SAP database servers.

ArcelorMittal Gent uses Tivoli System Automation, which is

mainly employed to initiate, execute and coordinate the

automated starting, stopping, restarting and failing-over of

individual SAP application components or entire composite

application landscapes.

Taking advantage of its advanced, policy-based automation

capabilities, ArcelorMittal Gent uses Tivoli System Automation to

ease the operational management of its complex infrastructure.

Using the Tivoli solution, the system administrator can more

effectively manage planned outages and protect against

operational errors. This reduces costs by automating manual,

labor-intensive and error-prone operational tasks.

Though its use of Tivoli System Automation, ArcelorMittal Gent

has achieved:

easier management of its complex IT infrastructure •

reduced skill requirements •

flexible, advanced automation functionality.•

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Project achievements

Performance improvements

During the Proof of Concept stage, mapping business

processes to Tivoli Workload Scheduler highlighted many areas

where dependencies had not been clearly defined, and priorities

had not been set. Migrating the workload to Tivoli Workload

Scheduler allowed the team to build a complete picture of the

work processes, managed from a single place, which in turn

suggested ways to improve the underlying business processes.

For example, when business executives asked for new

processes or reports, using Tivoli Workload Scheduler made it

easier for the developers to identify dependencies and schedule

the work correctly. This ensures that jobs do not start and

subsequently wait for input, and run – as far as possible –

correctly, first time. This reduces the total number of jobs running

at a particular moment, and reduces the drain on system

resources. In addition, with Tivoli Workload Scheduler,

developers are now able to examine the wait time and run time

for each job, and compare historic performance data.

Where a job waits longer or runs more slowly than previously, the

developer uses Tivoli Workload Scheduler to examine root

causes and review the job coding, dependencies and priority.

Without this detailed feedback, ArcelorMittal Gent had been

forced into addressing workload issues – such as delayed

reporting or poor performance – by investing in processor or

memory capacity. Tivoli Workload Scheduler allows the team to

identify the exact workload challenge and consider re-

scheduling work or optimizing processes before investing in

hardware.

Benefits and next steps

The ArcelorMittal Gent implementation has demonstrated how

the entire ArcelorMittal Group could benefit from integrating and

optimizing workload across both SAP and other applications.

The current Tivoli Workload Scheduler deployment will be

extended to encompass all of the SAP tasks and other

applications, providing enterprise-wide control while enhancing

the effectiveness of the SAP landscape.

For ArcelorMittal Gent, a worldwide enterprise that has grown in

part through acquisition and merger, Tivoli Workload Scheduler

offers the opportunity to share a common interface in all the data

centers. The lessons learned from ArcelorMittal Gent are:

Standardizing to Tivoli Workload Scheduler reduces •

the number of products required to connect SAP and

other applications, and provides a shared interface that

is easier to use and more productive to operate

Reviewing and optimizing business workflows and •

processes during the migration to Tivoli Workload

Scheduler itself has a beneficial effect on the design of

the underlying business processes

Tivoli Workflow Scheduler makes it easier to optimize •

code and workflow processes for new business

executive requests, by identifying dependencies and

business priorities as part of the wider enterprise

workload

Detailed feedback on performance allows developers •

to optimize existing workload using current processor,

memory and bandwidth resources, rather than

investing in additional hardware

Integration with IBM Tivoli Workload Manager offers the •

prospect of managing workload and data storage from

a shared interface across the enterprise.

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“ The rigor of the RFP process paid off, as we started seeing payoff and real benefit after the first month of operations.”

Ann Muys

SAP Systems Specialist

ArcelorMittal Gent

“ With the process visibility provided by Tivoli Workload Scheduler, we developed a much better understanding of processes and workflows. With this knowledge, we began to think about what could be changed to optimize processes and operations. The Tivoli Workload Scheduler interface made it easy to change processes and workflows, the resulting optimization improved customer services and job satisfaction for the staff.”

Ann Muys

SAP Systems Specialist

ArcelorMittal Gent

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