Russian Railways transferred 161 thousand employees to the 1C resource management system

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.

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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.^[1]

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.

Russian Railways transfers investment information system to 1C

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^[2]

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