VimpelCom completed transition to other version of ERP

On July 6, 2015 the press service of Oracle announced project completion of upgrade of business processes of PJSC VimpelCom on the basis of Oracle E-Business Suite R12. As the contractor in the project the AT Consulting company acted.

Project Tasks

Due to the changed requirements of business, in April, 2014 in VimpelCom made the decision on transition to the new version of the ERP system. During the project with the help of new functionality of Oracle E-Business Suite more than 70 large business processes of the company are automated:

• purchase management,
• inventory management,
• asset management,
• management of financial information and payments,
• accounting and reporting under standards of accounting, tax accounting,
• formation of the tax and management reporting,
• personnel (accounting, payroll calculation, maintaining sheet),
• loading of credentials from external systems of subsidiary companies of the CIS countries and foreign countries.

VimpelCom, 2014

In the course of migration data in 11 years of a company performance - more than 200 million records are transferred. An ERP system is integrated into the general IT architecture of the operator, interacts with external resources. The number of users is more than 30 thousand. The staff of the company got access to upgraded version in January, 2015. At the moment of peak load more than 100 specialists of VimpelCom and AT Consulting participated in the project.

Project Progress

The version of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 is distinguished by considerable improvements in support of centralization of functions of the enterprise. The uniform mechanism of setup of rules of formation of credentials provides reflection of business transactions at the same time in all types of accounting with preserving of an auditor trace. Centralization of payments, the simplified processes of closing of financial periods, flexible opportunities of setup of access rights to several operational units, the uniform data warehouse about bank accounts of all partners, user-friendly interfaces of setup, the specialized systems of self-service on personnel management, the preconfigured workplace of the purchaser and more than 500 other new opportunities simplify work of users, give a comprehensive idea of activity of the company in real time. With Oracle E-Business Suite R12 the company had an opportunity to use the preconfigured mobile applications, including applications for the statement of requests, for input of purchasing requests, for viewing inventory data, for receiving project information, a mobile product catalog and others.

"With Oracle E-Business Suite R12 we received the most modern ERP platform conforming to these and future requirements of our market. The tasks allowing the company to increase efficiency and speed of work were at the same time solved. For example, we passed to parallel accounting of economic transactions in the Russian accounting and in the international (managerial) accounting of IFRS that allowed to accelerate considerably processes of closing of the accounting periods and preparation of the international reporting. On the other hand, we considerably reduced the volume of customizations, having made the solution more flexible and less labor-intensive in development and support" — Konstantin Melnikov, the Head of Department of resource management systems of the PJSC Vympelkoma enterprise noted.

"With Vymplekom we are connected by the fruitful and long-term relations, and we are glad to expand cooperation at a new stage and with new market demands. The project of upgrade demonstrates advantages of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 to the telecommunication market, – Artur Hamidullin, the director of the department of preproject consulting of business applications of Oracle CIS noted, - We are sure that our most complete and innovation portfolio of the solutions proposed for deployment at the enterprise in a cloud and in hybrid model, will be a source of competitive advantages and forward development of the company in the digital world".

"This project is not just transition to the new version of a system. From the moment of initial implementation of ERP in 2004 the VimpelCom company passed a big way from mobile operator to the universal telecom operator entering into transnational telecommunication group. For alignment of business processes and reduction of number of completions we practically rebuilt system architecture under new requirements taking into account advanced functionality of the advanced version of Oracle E-Business Suite. Terms of the project were extremely compressed: from the moment of its start and before full-scale start we had 9 months. I want to note especially that we managed to perform one-time migration of historical data and start of all functional areas without any breakdown on stages. It is the largest one-time start of Oracle E-Business Suite in Russia from known to me" — Dmitry Potapov, the partner of AT Consulting company, the director of the ERP block tells about the project course.

Project Results

A system works in all branches of operator in the territory of Russia, in it more than 30 thousand users are registered and more than 70 large business processes are automated. The project - one of the most large-scale implementations of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 in Russia and the CIS.