Stroydoreksport intends to implement in a year ERP in all branches

The Stroydoreksport road construction company provides a full production cycle on construction, repair and the maintenance of roads. Formation of holding continued about 17 years during which the enterprises of the most different profile were its part: production of road-building materials, design and construction of roads, pits on production of crushed stone, the motor transportation company and security company and also one of the largest road-building enterprises of the region - Novokuznetsk DRSU. The general staff of holding makes more than two thousand people.

With growth of business there was a need for the information system allowing to exercise operational management by large holding with branched structure, own production and the big list of services.

In October, 2007 the tender for the choice of the ERP system and the contractor of the project was announced. Within the tender the company considered software platforms of Microsoft Dynamics AX, IFS Applications, SAP ERP and "1C: Enterprise". As a result a choice was made for benefit of the ERP solution of SAP. The contractor of the project selects IDS Scheer Russia and CIS countries company [1] (file), and the Krasnoyarsk consulting company "Partner Business Consulting" will become the partner in implementation.

According to Sergey Glukhov, the Chief information officer Stroydoreksport, the final decision on the choice of the ERP system was influenced that the solution optimum is suitable for geographically distributed structures, and sewn up in the "best practices" system on business process management conform to requirements of customer company.

The planned project scope includes almost all business processes of the enterprise:

• construction of roads (construction project management, purchase of resources, maintaining suppliers, consumers, agreements and orders, production of road-building materials);
• transport and warehouse logistics (requirements planning, acceptance and inventory accounting of materials, holiday, movement, control of stocks, and also planning and working off of transportation);
• management of maintenance and repairs of the equipment, transport, buildings and constructions;
• extraction of nonmetallic materials (planning of production and capacity management);
• sales management and distribution (sales planning, maintaining customers and settlings with them);
• finance (accounting under RAS and tax accounting, calculation of the VAT, banking and cash activities, fixed asset accounting and costs, budgeting and controlling).

Implementation of the ERP system will be performed at the same time in all key organization units of holding which participate in accomplishment of the main business processes: Stroydoreksport, Dorstroyeksport, "Prefactory motor depot", "Kemerovo stone pit" and Pit the Mozzhukhinsky, Kuzbassdorstroy. Further, within the second queue, system deployment in "Novokuznetsk DRSU" is planned. 

The project is supposed to be broken into five stages: preparation, conceptual design based on which process project scope, implementation, final preparation and commissioning will be specified. Start of a system is planned for September, 2009, i.e. all project, including creation of the ERP solution and its replication in  branches, territorially remote and diverse in terms of activities, is going to implement in only one year.

As Aleshkin Igor Nikolaevich reported TAdviser,  the Deputy CEO  both the commercial director the SAP experts of IDS Scheer Russia and the CIS countries, similar implementation can be based only on a centralized system which represents a template for the remote companies. This approach is accepted by the customer, and  IDS Scheer already has experience of deployment of the similar systems in 11 operating companies "Formulas of Holding" in 2006. That project was implemented in 15 months (solution development at the central office took 13 months, 2 months were allotted  on replication).

According to Dmitry Andikalovsky from the Siberian sector of SAP CIS company, this project besides executed not in the European part of Russia, and in the Siberian region, proves that SAP solutions can be used not only giant companies with unlimited budgets, but also the companies of an average segment of the market where the value of their use fully answers the amount of investments, necessary for acquisition and implementation.