Litum automated the full production cycle with 1C:ERP Enterprise Management 2

2024: Automation of the full production cycle with "1C:ERP Enterprise Management 2"

The Litum group of companies has automated the full production cycle with the help of 1C:ERP Enterprise Management 2. This was announced on August 29, 2024 by the 1C:April Soft company.

As reported, Litum Group of Companies and Litum paint brand were created as a result of the acquisition of Russian assets of international companies Jotun, Hempel and PPG. The history of the Litum group of companies dates back to 2022, when the Russian division of the Norwegian concern Jotun was sold to an owner from Russia. Later, in 2023, the Litum group included two more enterprises - the Russian divisions of Hempel and PPG. The production enterprises of Litum are located in the Leningrad Region, Ulyanovsk, Lipetsk and Kolomna. According to the data for 2024, the annual production capacity is 100 thousand tons of products, which makes Litum a key player in the Russian paint and varnish market.

In 2023, it was decided to switch to an updated one, accounting system which would unite all business processes enterprises. To manage the business, the enterprise used several accounting systems based on "," 1C accounting was scattered. The next round of information space development in the company began with the implementation of ": 1CERP Enterprise Management 2" - for managing regulatory reference information, combining accounting, tax warehousing and in one system. This was important both for maintaining the current state and for further development.

The reason for the transition to the updated system was the need to obtain operational management information for the management of the enterprise to make effective and timely decisions.

It becomes possible to:

• Plan activities and forecast development, establish connections and analyze the results of cooperation with counterparties.
• Access reports.
• Monitor the work of subdivisions.
• Manage assets and resources.
• Optimize costs and minimize losses.

The main objectives of automation are:

• From a business perspective:
  • Bring business processes to modern requirements;
  • Optimize the speed of response to changes in the external environment (especially important when working in the EU market).

• In terms of functionality:
  • Automate all management and regulated accounting;
  • Implement the production dispatching unit;
  • Generate accounting and tax reports automatically from the system.
  • After analyzing the offered software products, the choice was made to "1C:ERP Enterprise Management 2," which meets all these requirements.

The company 1C: April Soft was chosen as a partner company. The implementation was carried out by its staff of IT specialists with the further support of 1C:April Soft in terms of configuration improvements.

To achieve the set goals, the following was completed:

• Consulting on current issues.
• A contract for technical support of the system has been drawn up.
• The system has been finalized according to the wishes of users.

As of September 2024, the following units were put into operation:

• Accounting.
• Tax accounting.
• Personnel accounting.
• Treasury.
• Cash management.
• Settlement management.
• Customer and supplier relationship management.
• Asset management.
• Sales management.
• Purchase and inventory management.
• Calculation of the cost of production.
• Inventory accounting.
• Management accounting.
• Production management.

The system was put into operation from January 2023. By the end of May 2024, the configuration was finalized for the needs of users: the document "Order for Shipment" was developed, the document "Order for Supply" was developed, the workplace "Delivery" and the document "Assignment for Transportation" were finalized, and the tasks for shipment and receipt were finalized. 292 user workplaces were automated.

As a result of the implementation, the quality of both managerial and regulated accounting was optimized at the enterprise. Accounting of settlements with buyers is carried out actually in real time, which allows you to quickly monitor the state of receivables and reduce the period of its turnover by timely detection of overdue debts and corresponding work with buyers.