Following were the business Challenges and Opportunities while going through the project:
-The existing ERP was unable to support business processes
-Heavy use of Manual Processes during operational flow of the port due to which there were high level errors and weak process integration
-Primarily Excel based Planning of Preventive Maintenance Schedule was being practiced
-There was no single view of operation, and hence business Critical Processes were not automated due to which financial closure was slow and unreliable
-The instability in the user community against management, Inefficiency and errors where pretty evident. Which resulted in high cost due to un-optimized utilization of resources
Application Area were:
-IFS 7.5 SP2
-Enterprise Asset Maintenance
-Team of 4 members were involved in this project
Following were business benefits, once the problems were overcome:
-There would be streamlined and painless operations
-Implementation of Trusted system would result in satisfied users
-There would be massive reduction in maintenance costs since there would be 100% elimination of manual work orders
-Single view of the organization in one system would be maintained which would result in timely and smooth periodic Financial closure
-Analytics reports would be available to all key users and hence this would help in easy roll-up in global structure with standard definition
-99% accuracy in Inventory
Contribution by Envecon:
-Pre-Study and solutioning definitions were framed in line with Expected Global Standard Processes
-Extensive User Training were carried out
-Data Migration was done through standard templates which led to a hassle free operation process
-Equipment Structures were designed as per Normalized Global Object Structures
-There were succesful User Acceptance Test
-And there were Cut-over and Go-live and Post Go-Live Support
