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Indian
Rayon, the viscose filament yarn (VFY), caustic
soda and chlorine manufacturing unit of Aditya
Birla Nuvo, an Aditya Birla Group company, won
the prestigious SAP ACE 2007 award. The award
honours best run businesses that set global benchmarks
in excellence.
The
award came in recognition of Indian Rayon's excellent
implementation of SAP in its Veraval plants
and
14 sales offices and depots. Among the 38 winners
from various categories, Indian Rayon won the award
in chemicals sector. It was the first Aditya Birla
Group company to receive this award from SAP India,
a subsidiary of SAP AG-Germany — world's leading
ERP solutions provider for customer excellence.
The
award was received by Mr. D P Modani, Jt President
(F&C) and Mr. H Krishnan, Asst.VP (IT) from
Dr.Henning Kagermann, CEO-SAP, AG, at New Delhi
on 27 August 2007.
The
SAP success story at Indian Rayon
The SAP implementation project at Indian Rayon's
viscose filament yarn and chlor-alkali plants was
launched in October 2005 and the implementation
went live in April 2006. It covered finance, controlling,
sales and distribution, materials, quality, production
and maintenance modules of SAP at Veraval and 14
sales offices and depots. Subsequently, the division
has implemented Business Intelligence Warehouse
(SAP BW) in January 2007. Besides covering usual
features, the division has to its credit implementation
of special features like profit center accounting,
funds management, budgetary control, segment profitability
under CO-PA module etc., some of which are for the
first time in the Aditya Birla Group.
The
implementation at Indian Rayon was a complex process
due to its vast range of filament yarn products
(13,000 product codes), highly integrated multi-stage
processing in series of value-adding activities
and captive plants for manufacture of various input
chemicals and utilities. But the dedicated and comprehensive
implementation team, along with PWC, its implementation
partner, made it possible within six months. It
created 170 cost centres and 37 profit centres in
SAP. The division also adopted UNSPSC coding (United
Nations Standard Products and Services Codes) for
materials, which enabled scientific classification
of all kinds of materials, particularly maintenance
spares and consumables.
Single
access to SAP enables information to be drilled
down across the cost centres as well as viewed
across the business segments. The single database
permits information to be extracted for any cost
centre or profit centre while enabling easy solution
for management review and actions.
The
press release issued by SAP India, “A core
implementation in the chemicals industry that
is yielding rich returns across several operating
parameters…” sums up Indian Rayon’s
SAP implementation excellence.
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