TO SUSTAIN its position in the industry, Shree Cement decided to upgrade its ERP system to minimize downtime.
Growing from a single manufacturing plant with a 2 million metric ton production capacity per annum, Shree Cement now sells 25.6 million metric tons cement per annum and operates 10 manufacturing plants across North and East India and more than 50 regional sales offices. The company aims to build more new plants in South India and invest in new technology to ensure timely delivery and enhance customer satisfaction.
Due to rapid year-on-year business growth, the firm’s legacy ERP platform could not support the increased transaction volume, such as processing cement orders across multiple locations. It also needed to shut down the ERP system for monthly patches updates, negatively affecting manufacturing operations. The unsupported legacy system also posed a significant risk to the business.
Since 2008, Shree Cement used legacy Oracle Database and Oracle e-Business Suite for its ERP system. With 20% growth in cement production and 30% growth in power generation annually, the company experienced performance issues with its legacy ERP system due to exponential growth in transaction volume and additional loads on the server. To overcome these challenges, Shree Cement decided to upgrade its ERP system to Oracle Database 12c and Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12.2.4.
Reduced planned system downtime
The upgrade has helped Shree Cement gain real-time visibility into its ERP processes, and reduce planned downtime. It has helped the company in accelerating its procure-to-pay cycle time by a factor of 69x and enabled faster dispatching time. Managers can create reports 40% faster with the added advantage of improved inventory planning.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Express Computer.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Express Computer.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
How Big Basket Is Leveraging Emerging Tech For Streamlining Delivery
A perfect combination of focused strategy, market knowhow, customer centricity, and most importantly, the right technology, has led to Big Basket's dominance in online grocery space
Technology raising the bar in higher education
From app-based learning to virtual classrooms and from AI to analytics, the higher education industry in India is driven by increasing technology adoption
Speaking about the EDGE
BY ESTABLISHING IT deployments for cloud-based services in edge data centres located in localised areas or communities, IT resources are effectively brought closer to end users and devices
REDEFINING DATA CENTRES
A look at how some of India's leading organisations are heralding transformational changes in their data centre operations
Need to define outcomes before making data centre software defined
THERE IS A NEED to clearly define the outcomes from adopting the software defined concept; a necessary mechanism to regularly review and revise the outcomes should also be built, says Manoj Gautam, VP - IT Infrastructure Service, Maruti Suzuki India
ICICI Bank: Unique distinction of a platinum rated green data centre
PROVIDING A MAJOR impetus to CII- Indian Green Building Council's (IGBC) efforts in greening of Indian data centres, ICICI Bank Data Centre in Hyderabad has gained the unique distinction of becoming India’s first Platinum rated project under IGBC Green Data Centre Rating System
Data centre rationalises computing resources at Titan Company
TITAN HOSTS A complex IT architecture. The data centre team has been trained by the OEMs to run the software-defined infrastructure, says Krishnan Venkateswaran, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Titan Company
Bajaj Housing Finance goes with 100% cloud architecture
BAJAJ HOUSING FINANCE has moved the entire enterprise IT ecosystem 100 per cent on public cloud, leading to flexible architecture for its business applications, data warehousing and analytics, which is high performing, rapidly scalable and secure
The top barriers financial institutions face in their race to digital transformation
WHY ARE DIGITAL business transformations failing to deliver value? Low double digit percentage of IT leaders have seen sustained performance improvement from transformation efforts, and are successful at sustaining change
Mercedes-Benz banks on digital initiatives for competitive advantage
MERCEDES BELIEVES THAT CONNECTED, Autonomous, Shared and Services, Electric (CASE)are the four concepts that will shape the future of driving. While design has been a fancy for Mercedes, tech and IT is as significant. And if touch controls seem too tedious to operate then the company now brings out gesture control
