SIA International selected SAP as a single platform of automation of business

SIA INTERNEYSHL LTD of the first among the Russian pharmaceutical distributors selected SAP as a single platform of automation of business. In a project deliverable the corporate system of management as the central office, and all 37 affiliated enterprises, including automation of logistic processes, managerial, accounting, tax accounting, accounting on IFRS to standards (IFRS) and also personnel management and payroll calculation will be created.

The project will be performed on the basis of the centralized and standardized services of a hosting of the SAP products implemented by T-Systems there are more than seven years worldwide. Having good local examination and necessary licenses for data services in Russia, within this T-Systems CIS project provides SIA INTERNATIONAL LTD of end-to-end the solution, including the reserved connection to DPC in Austria.

"The structure of our enterprise, with an annual turnover approximately in 100 billion rubles, includes about 40 subsidiary companies". – Ivan Arkadyevich Preobrazhensky, the director of public relations of SIA INTERNATIONAL LTD speaks. "It is very thin and complex business – it is necessary to expand constantly the range and to increase service quality at the decreasing margin. For us it is especially important to manage costs and also further to perform seamless integration of business – from production and a warehouse to the end consumer. SAP implementation will allow to receive not only a source of reliable management information about a company performance, but also additional opportunities for scaling and business development in the conditions of the amplifying competition".

Andrey Sharak, the sales director in the sector retail and wholesale, SAP CIS: "SAP works with the pharmaceutical companies around the world long ago and successfully: 37 of 40 leading manufacturers of medicines, such as Pfizer or Novartis, use SAP. Besides, our clients are the largest world pharmdistributor – McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen companies. Therefore it is twice pleasant that the largest and oldest player of the Russian market of medicines, SIA INTERNATIONAL LTD company, selected SAP as the platform for development of the business. We are going to work actively on development of this industry in Russia and the CIS countries that, undoubtedly, will help us with implementation of the plan of growth and to achievement of billion turnover of the company by 2015".

"We expect much from this project. Our old purpose - to make in Russia implementation projects of SAP the most business focused and to exempt the client from the "technical" party of use of a system. At first we learned to offer instead of standard implementation "from scratch", solutions, initially containing the main features of business of the client, then - to provide high-quality services in support and development of the implemented system, and now we take the next step – use of the "cloud" platform. We are sure of success as at the project is three the main components - the interested in result, professional command from SIA INTERNATIONAL LTD, experience of T-Systems CIS and advanced technologies" - Toskin Alexey, the CEO of T-Systems CIS said.

400 employees of the company will become users of a system at the first stage. Further development of the project, both on number of users, and on functionality of SAP solutions is supposed.