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Solutions and Services Rendering Highlights Timeframe: 9 several weeks, strict devotedness to time-schedules Top Management’s support Extremely dedicated group Comprehensive alter management SAP ERP success story MRF Limited MRF Limited can be engaged in the manufacturing, circulation and sale of an extensive ange of high-quality tyres intended for various kinds of vehicles. The company’s operations correspond with manufacture of rubber items, such as tyres, of applications. MRF provides six creation facilities in India and around 85 sales offices. From its modest origins in 1946, the organization has come a considerable ways to become the marketplace leader inside the tyre making industry. MRF exports usana products to over seventy five countries around the world.
Today, global tyre manufacturers have to program and adapt to changes in consumer demand, fluctuations in raw material rates and availableness, while keeping pace with timelines for shipments; in the face of increasing ompetition in the global marketplace. The advantages of SAP Prior to becoming an SAP buyer, MRF was running a lot of outmoded heritage systems that could no longer keep up with the company’s expanding procedures, and, because of this, the company was plagued with inefficiency. Challenges of sluggish availability of data, tedious manual entry and data transfer, not enough system versatility, excess manpower utilization and costs did start to have a negative impact on the business.
Consequently, the corporation was spending a lot of time in consolidating the info, getting the info together, and time. That did not consider long for MRF to know it had to change its nonintegrated, independent devices if it planned to gain ideal insight and higher efficiency to manage quick business progress. The company needed a flexible solution to allow IT to come up with changes while offering a low total cost of control.
MRF decided to reengineer the entire IT landscape by implementing SAP ERP and SAP CRM solutions, based upon the SAP NetWeaver program. A Main Team referred to as the Power Users team was created to determine the requirements of the company and the choice of a suitable ERP olution. MRF brought in APPLE Global to facilitate the task and the Primary Team was sensitized for the process of reengineering.
The company would a detailed analysis based on several criteria including experience in the manufacturing sector and product-offerings; Oracle and SAP were short outlined. MRF took part in a SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS summit which in turn helped the company to take the final decision. “SAP came out at the top in terms of merchandise superiority, post-sales support, and record customer satisfaction. We were comfortable that SAP will support our ideas for extended growth, ” says Royal prince Azariah, Primary Information Police officer, MRF Limited.
SAP presented a clear option for MRFs manufacturing procedures which include procedure as well as under the radar production. “We have relocated onto an adult product with SAP. We certainly have made a great decision in selecting SAP, ” adds Sathya Gautham, Manager THIS Services. Execution MRF selected Siemens Information Systems since the setup partner after a thorough selection. The task went live on December 1, 2007. There are around 60 members from MRF and 35-40 associates from Siemens involved in the execution process.
The core team nd the partner’s staff worked fully collaboration, when ensuring that the implementation was carried out in accordance to period schedules. “One of the issues was that the systems were in etablissement. Change supervision has been a big challenge, ” says Gautham. There were many instances when MRF looked to SAP India and SAP Labs to get assistance and support throughout the implementation. SAP ERP has become implemented on the company’s Head Office in Chennai, 6 industries in Revenue Offices.
MRF went set for all main modules including Financials and Controlling (FICO), Sales; Distribution (SD), Components Management (MM), Production Organizing PP), Quality Management (QM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Human Resources (HR), and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver 81). Today, there are around 700 users who may have accepted the implementation within a positive method. Benefits With SAP ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, the company has one harmonized, standardized and integrated solution. The solution offers enabled MRF to transform the business operation management coming from time consuming and inflexible to real-time and adaptable.
You can now depend on easy access to accurate, finish, and up-to-the minute data, thanks to entralized, integrated data. This has triggered quicker making decisions and superior business transactions for MRF. SAP is a good thing which includes happened to MRF, ” Sathya Gautham, Manager IT Services The implementation of SAP has brought in a main shift in the work-culture in the company. “The core team was clearly aware that they can be responsible for creating their future. Earlier, i was a top-driven company. Right now, we have near to 60 staff at the middle management level who have been stimulated to take organization decisions, and who happen to be advising best management about what should be done u set up processes in the company.
There is a lot of excitement among the main team members plus the end-users. As well, we used to be a incredibly silo-ed company. With SAP, the Minds of different Departments look to they for image resolution of complications.
