In Cherkizovo the large-scale project on transition from 1C to SAP starts

The chief information officer and the board member of CherkizovoVladislav Belyaev in June, 2015 told TAdviser about plans for development of business applications in its group. According to Belyaev, in Cherkizovo solutions of 1C are widely used, and in the short term there is a task to centralize separate databases and systems on this platform and to transfer them to the unified configuration. At the same time, the second direction is to move to transition to the new platform – SAP, he says.

"In a target picture to which we expect to pass approximately in five years, 1C, perhaps will remain on some minor and specific tasks. For example, we have such industry process as accounting of a livestock. It is possible to leave it on 1C. The centralized ERP system covering key processes, such as finance, purchases, production, logistics, planning, sales will be based on SAP", - he explained TAdviser.

Chief information officer and board member of Cherkizovo Group Vladislav Belyaev

Vladislav Belyaev provided data that in Cherkizovo about 22 thousand employees work, and in different applications about 5 thousand work human. In the company about 50 bases for data of 1C of different configurations, apart from archive and auxiliary are used. The chief information officer of Cherkizovo notes that it is big and difficult "ball" of systems, and in the platform of 1C the company sees restrictions at its scales of business.

"We will not be able to implement in 1C all our requirements, including restrictions on speed, reliability and so on. Considering the specifics of work of Cherkizovo connected with shipments of products, with a continual loop of production, geographical distribution of business, speed, reliability and "data transparency" are extremely important for us", - the Chief information officer of Cherkizovo explains.

One of important pluses for benefit of SAP Belyaev calls existence of successful implementations of this platform in their industry: "There are, for example, several large enterprises on meat processing which already work in SAP. Having studied this experience, both Russian, and foreign, we made a choice for benefit of SAP", he says.

According to Vladislav Belyaev, are going to begin transition to the SAP platform to the companies with one of large sections of business - in trading house of the Poultry farming segment which manages movement and implementation of finished goods from all factories "Cherkizovo". The project assumes automation of a full stroke, covering logistics, sales, financial processes, purchases. It will not cover so far, perhaps, only HR, the Chief information officer of Cherkizovo notes, adding that this process and is not critical.