State-of-the-art review: ERP in power 2009

Dmitry Sergienko: It was necessary to carry out explanatory work at all stages of the project - to tell about the system implementation purposes, about advantages which it gives to both employees, and the company.

JSC Volga Territorial Generation Company (TGC-7) was created on August 1, 2005 within project implementation of reforming of the Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Orenburg power supply systems. A core activity of the company – production of thermal and electrical energy, sale of the electric power in wholesale market, heat supply of residential and industrial consumers. For January 1, 2007 the total number of personnel of the enterprises entering into VoTGC was more than 20 thousand people. Volga TGC is a prime vendor of heat for almost 5-million population and industrial enterprises of 11 cities in four large industrial regions of the Volga region. It is the second in value of the authorized power of TGC in Russia. The implementation project of mySAP ERP 2005 and SAP BI 7.0 was begun in the company at the end of 2006. The OXS company became the contractor of the project. Since January 1, 2008 the first block of a system was brought into commercial operation. The project is estimated as the largest ERP implementation in the Russian power.

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Denis Panfilov: Creation of uniform standards of management and integration - the most relevant tasks in informatization of power

IBS has extensive experience of creation of complex IT solutions on platforms of the leading world vendors – Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc. But we have also own solutions which are already implemented in a number of the power enterprises. For example, "A management system for property of registers" which is implemented, in particular, in HydroOGK. As a result of merge to KG of Borlas last year, we received the product BUS (Borlas Utility Solution) – the solution for the sales companies which is implemented, for example, in "Volgogradenergosbyt", "Hakasenergosbyt" and in a number of the companies. These are own developments of the company.

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Alexander Nichiporenko: Reorganization of processes - the main task vnedreniyeya business applications

The product line which we offer the power companies consists, by and large, of three large a component: the first part is solution ERP\EAM, the second component – systems for the business analysis which we already mentioned, and, at last, the third – industry solution for power. The SAP solution for Utilities is conventional is one of the best industry products in the world. It solves problems, specific to power, such as receiving and processing of results of the measurements necessary for carrying out settlings with consumers, billing, customer service (CRM). In other industries often SAP solutions compare to best of breed (the best for a specific niche). Clients should look for a compromise between integrated solution and the choice of the product best of breed. In power our solution is demanded and is actively used by customers.

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