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:
- Streamlined and painless operations without loss of established process efficiencies
- Trusted system and satisfied users
- Better and advanced processes in line with Global standards
- Single view of the organization in one system, than with multiple systems
- Reduced effort for IT, to monitor and maintain data in IFS
- Analytics reports available to all key users
- Seamless integration with outsourced external vendors EAM system which handles preventive maintenance of equipment
- Achieving very high level of accuracy in Inventory
Contribution by Envecon:
- Pre-Study and solution management in line with Expected Global Standard Processes
- User Training
- Development of Reports on Crystal reports format
- Interfaces to multiple(8) 3rd party applications for ensuring reduced work load and high process automation
- Enhancements to existing IFS processes through new features from IFS.
- Data Migration through standard templates
- Equipment Structures as per Normalized Global Object Structures
- User Acceptance Test
- Cut-over and Go-live
- Post Go-Live Support