Norilsk Nickel, MMC (Norilsk Nickel) (SAP ERP)

Replication of SAP ERP in GRK "Bystrinskoye"

• Production site of GRK 'Bystrinskoye'.
• Gazimuro-Zavodsky district of Zabaykalsky Krai, 635 km from the airport of Chita
• More than 2000 new jobs for the region

Replication of a template of business processes and corporate Enterprise resource planning based on SAP solutions for the enterprise GRK "Bystrinskoye"

Functional volume:

• Main production,
• Management of industrial assets / MRO,
• Purchase management and MTR
• Sale and supply chain management
• Finance and economy
• Investment activities and capital construction

Partners: • BearingPoint

• Competence Center of the Client (Central Committee of SAP)
• NN-Obshchy center obsluzhivaniya LLC

Project calls

• Need to provide replication of ERP in time – to date of start of GRKB (3.5 months from start before operation)
• Need to achieve the goal in the conditions of high load of business
• Need of preserving of integrity of sample model, control of amount of works, minimum volume of completions
• Work in the conditions of the remote region, geographical distribution, different time zones (+6 hours)

Solutions

• Direct involvement of the top management, motivation of employees
• Inclusion of the ERP Project in a complex of the main actions for start of the Asset
• Observance of project methodology
• Preliminary estimate of works, detailed planning
• Monitoring of works and results, escalation of risks, questions, operational decision making

Composed success

• The built and debugged management system for the ERP Program
• Positioning of ERP as business project, as parts of a complex of actions for readiness for start-up
• Personal participation of heads
• Accurate observance of methodology and technology of replication
• Early start of work with requirements of regions, accurate decision making system
• The pilot, motivated on result command

• Accounting of different sorts of ores and formation of repartition of blending for use further economically reasonable management of ore warehouses (cut off grade), including at fluctuation of the prices
• Formation of provision and implementation in the system of SAP of accounting of cost value during a transient period of balancing and commissioning of a long cycle
• Binding of newly created base of industrial assets about 90 thousand units to chains of production of copper, gravitational, iron ore concentrates, infrastructure facilities

Support of organizational changes

• Organizational changes of processes of the enterprise under target business - processes of the company
• Early development of regulations and normative and methodological documents
• Periodic information meetings on the project
• Motivational posters
• Information bulletins of the project
• Z training waves
• Testing of users and control of readiness for independent work according to the results of training
• Round tables based on OPE