Customer Reference

ASCO strengthened disaster recovery for global logistics operations

ASCO needed a disaster recovery model that could protect complex global supply chain systems and meet demanding service levels. Cloudwrxs delivered discovery, application DR runbooks, and an AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery architecture designed to reduce recovery times and improve confidence across intricate application dependencies.

70+
Global locations

ASCO operates from more than 70 locations supporting logistics and materials management for the energy industry.

1,500
Employees

The recovery model had to support a business with significant operational scale and critical logistics responsibilities.

12x
Faster DR process

The new disaster recovery approach was described as making the DR process twelve times faster.

Organisation Overview

A global logistics business with complex recovery requirements

ASCO is a leading materials management and logistics company for the global energy industry. The company provides integrated services spanning supply base management, materials and warehouse management, waste management, decommissioning, transport and logistics.

Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, ASCO operates from more than 70 locations worldwide and employs around 1,500 people. That scale makes application resilience and recovery planning critical, particularly where operations depend on interconnected logistics and warehouse systems.

  • Global energy logistics and materials management operations
  • Complex application and infrastructure dependencies
  • Recovery requirements tied directly to client service levels
ASCO global logistics operations overview
Challenge

Existing on-premise DR could not keep pace with operational risk

Over many years, ASCO had developed numerous and complex on-premise architectures to support its global supply chain. Focused around INFOR WMS ERP, the architecture was reaching a tipping point that made it difficult to fulfil contracted client SLAs.

The business needed a disaster recovery solution that could improve recovery point accuracy, reduce expected data loss and account for intricate boot-order requirements across dependent systems.

  • Complex on-premise architectures supporting global supply chain processes
  • Demanding recovery expectations linked to client SLAs
  • Need to reduce expected data loss and improve recovery confidence
ASCO disaster recovery on AWS architecture reference
Solution

Cloudwrxs designed and tested AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Cloudwrxs performed a rapid global infrastructure discovery, created comprehensive application DR runbooks and designed, developed, implemented and tested an AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery architecture.

The runbook-led approach was important because disaster recovery is not only an infrastructure problem. Recovery must reflect application dependencies, boot order, operational handover and the sequence required to bring business services back safely.

  • Rapid discovery of global infrastructure and application dependencies
  • Comprehensive application disaster recovery runbooks
  • AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery architecture design and implementation
  • Testing against realistic recovery sequences and operational requirements
ASCO global logistics operations overview
Results

Recovery objectives reduced to seconds for complex systems

The new DR process reduced recovery time objectives to mere seconds, even for intricate systems with complex boot order sequences. ASCO described the new process as twelve times faster, giving the business a stronger and more dependable recovery model.

For Cloudwrxs, the reference demonstrates the importance of combining AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery with application-aware planning. The strongest DR outcomes come when infrastructure replication, application sequencing and operational runbooks are designed together.

  • Recovery time objectives reduced to seconds
  • More predictable recovery for systems with complex boot order dependencies
  • A DR process described as twelve times faster
ASCO disaster recovery on AWS architecture reference

Cloudwrxs were able to achieve recovery time objectives to mere seconds, even for the most intricate systems with complex specific boot order sequences.

ASCO reference summary

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