Russian Railways remove SAP software and switch to the 1C system. They want to complete the project by 2027
| Customers: Russian Railways (RZD) Contractors: 1C Joint Stock Company Project date: 2023/07
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2025: Plans to transition from SAP software to 1C by 2027
Russian Railways plans to switch to a domestic resource management system (RMS) in 2027. This was announced at the beginning of June 2025 by the head of the company Oleg Belozerov.
According to him, these works are carried out in accordance with the schedule. The first set of actions on the 1C platform in the company has already been implemented. Now it is studying how it will work.
 | I think in the near future we will present a working product along with 1C. In 2027, we will switch on all components to this unique system, - said Oleg Belozerov (quoted by RIA Novosti). |  |
The news agency recalls that Russian Railways is developing a digital platform for managing enterprise resources together with partners, including, in addition to 1C, T1 and other companies. The railway operator hoped to complete the creation of the architecture of the national enterprise resource management system by the end of 2024. As explained in the company, the task is to develop an analogue of the ERP system on domestic technology as soon as possible. Belozerov in 2024 said that Russian Railways in 2025 will be ready to offer RMS components to other companies.
Russian Railways plans to abandon critical foreign software by 2027. We are talking about programs that ensure the main production processes: train traffic management, logistics operations, security systems. And by 2030, the company expects to completely switch to domestic software, said Deputy General Director of Russian Railways Yevgeny Charkin in early June 2025. He thanked domestic manufacturers for their support, noting that not a single vendor refused to cooperate, despite the economic difficulties.
| | The pace of import substitution is very high, but none of the producers with whom we worked in the market abandoned us, regardless of the financial and economic, budgetary situation. Not a single vendor abandoned us, and we are going this way together, "added Charkin.[1] | |
2024: Transfer of 161 thousand employees to the 1C resource management system
Russian Railways (RZD) transferred more than 161 thousand employees engaged in contractual and procurement activities to modernized modules of the resource management system from 1C. This was announced on November 7, 2024 at a meeting of the Council for the Development of the Digital Economy under the Federation Council.
According to ComNews, by 2028 the company plans to fully complete the transition to a targeted resource management system. Human resources and accounting modules are currently being implemented.
Evgeny Charkin, Deputy General Director of Russian Railways for Digital Transformation, noted the scale of the project - more than 260 thousand users work in the system, of which 30 thousand are online at the same time, generating over 300 million documents annually.
Kirill Semion, General Director of the National Competence Center for Holding Information Management Systems, announced the completion of the development of large business requirements for resource management systems. More than 30 companies and state corporations participated in the project.
A representative of 1C confirmed the successful load testing of the system with the participation of 12 thousand users simultaneously working in a single base operating system Linux using. PostgreSQL
In 2025, it is planned to start introducing modules that can be used by other companies. The project is being implemented jointly with Gazprom Neft and T1 as part of the activities of the National Competence Center.
The Russian Railways digital transformation strategy is based on a platform approach and includes seven digital platforms for working with passengers, shippers, managing traction resources and non-production processes.
In 2025, it is planned to expand the functionality of the system with the ability to test and use by other companies, subject to legal norms and process identity. The development is carried out in cooperation with the largest domestic software manufacturers.[2]
2023: Russian Railways will spend 357 million rubles on the transfer of the investment IT system to 1C
On July 31, 2023, it became known that Russian Railways (RZD) an IT contractor was found to implement a project to transfer an investment information system software SAP from to a domestic platform. " 1C Initially, it was planned to allocate more than 475 million for the initiative, rubles but according to the results of the tender, there was a contractor who made a much more profitable offer.
According to CNews, the project concerns the creation of an automated investment management system for the railway carrier. Since 2007, Russian Railways has used an investment planning and accounting system (SPiUI) on the platform of the German company SAP. But in the current geopolitical situation, this developer left the Russian market, in connection with which import substitution of software was required. SAP solutions will be replaced by Investment AS on the 1C platform.
The tender for the development of the system was announced by Russian Railways on June 30, 2023 in the form of an electronic tender. The initial contract price amounted to 475.4 million rubles. Proposals came from two companies whose names were not specified: one of them was ready to perform work for 442.1 million rubles, the other for 356.6 million rubles. The second company was recognized as the winner, which will help Russian Railways save 118.8 million rubles from the initial cost of the contract.
The SAP SPiUI platform contains information on more than 1.2 thousand investment sub-projects, including more than 90 thousand investment objects. It unites about 3 thousand users from 67 structural divisions of Russian Railways on the entire railway network. However, it is claimed that the SAP system "does not allow migration to the import-independent software of existing functions and mechanisms using the built-in tools of the platform." Therefore, the introduction of a domestic solution based on "1C" was required[3]
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