Akwa Vizhion

Additional information - the Implemented modules: Accounting, tax and management accounting, budgeting, management of material stocks, production management, management of sales processes, maintenance and repair of the equipment, quality management and personnel.

Akwa Vizhion (ERP system implementation project) - the only project in Russia within which start of the SAP Business Suite system took place on production under construction.

Solution and Contractor Selection

The document estimating a number of the known western systems by numerous criteria among which — the cost of one workplace functionality and scalability of the solution, level of its support and maintenance in Russia, availability and the price of consultants in the market was prepared. The made analysis and calculations spoke well for the product mySAP Business Suite, Valery Poltavtsev, the Chief information officer Akwa Vizhion says.

The internal team of consultants was formed: took two-three people with good expert experience of implementation of SAP solutions, other team members are trainees. These are the young people of 20 — 25 years having brief experience of work with other information systems (1C, Microsoft Dynamics AX, etc.), but not familiar with a SAP product, Poltavtsev tells. They studied directly during the project. Everyone worked in the functional group consisting of the business expert and the external consultant who was responsible for the functional module.

As the external consultant as a result of the tender the GMCS company was selected.

Project Progress

The start of an implementation project of mySAP Business Suite took place in the summer of 2005.

On April 1, 2006 the functional modules FI-CO, MM and HR were started. The internal command was connected to support to the started functionality. All necessary acts were signed with the external consulting company, and further it did not participate in system implementation.

Difficulties of the project

It was difficult to overcome unwillingness of end users to timely enter information into a system, especially those who never dealt with CIS. Many perceived the requirement as if they are loaded with others accounting work.

Compliance to terms and plan of the budget

The main objective consisted in that to start processes in the ERP system synchronously with start of real business processes in the companies. The task was solved.

The project budget of implementation ERP system was not called.

Effect from Implementation

Excess costs were significantly reduced. Planning of logistic and warehouse transactions gave the chance to offer direct deliveries of products from the plant at competitive prices not only large distributors, but also directly average and small retailers. Failures in deliveries are excluded and also optimal conditions for financial relationship between the producer and sellers are created.

Suppliers and contractors

• SAP AG
• GMCS

Sources

Valery Poltavtsev, Akwa Vizhion: Implementation of ERP in parallel with construction of the plant