"Progress-Ekologiya" manages production of filters for nuclear power plants using Sage ERP X3

Customer

"Progress-Ekologiya" is engaged in development, production and delivery of filters and the filtering equipment for nuclear power stations and enterprises of Rosatom corporation. The equipment of production of the company equips all Russian nuclear power stations and also stations, under construction by the Russian specialists in Iran and India.

Progress-Ekologiya Ltd makes the sorbents filtering, the aerosol and aerosol occluding filters, filters adsorbers of radioactive iodine, filtration units of different performance and appointment and all ancillary equipment to them.

Tasks

Over time increase in production resulted in need of increase in transparency of activity for receiving a real picture of functioning of the enterprise. To obtain necessary information on all key processes at any moment, the company management made the decision on implementation of the complex information management system.

A functional system which would allow to arrange processes of management of purchases, warehouse stocks, planning of materials on production and maintaining the production order was required. A system was designed to exclude completely mismatch in actions of divisions and the errors arising at the same time, to optimize costs and to increase overall effectiveness of activity.

As a technology platform for creation of a system the solution Sage ERP X3 intended for complex automation of the mid-scale businesses working in production, distribution and the sphere of professional services was selected. Sage ERP X3 represents the modern ERP system optimum balanced based on the ratio of the cost, functionality, the adaptation layer to changes, settings and to convenience of using. The system effectiveness is proved by positive experience of implementation in thousands of the companies worldwide. As the contractor of the project the Energy Consulting Group, the partner of Sage company in Russia and the CIS acted.

Solution

Specialists of Energy Consulting automated processes of management of purchases, a warehouse, planning of materials on production and the project budget and also contract management processes with suppliers and clients. The created system gives an opportunity to keep track of the status of accomplishment of the production order, production costs and actual cost of products.

A system allows not only to plan effectively purchases of materials under the order, but also to accurately understand stock balance at any moment, with detailing by quantity, the place in a warehouse and to batch number. Besides, implementation of Sage ERP X3 considerably optimized quality control process. So, at intake of material on a warehouse, information on it becomes at once available to the control specialist who passes on production only material, good for use.

During the project at the enterprise lot-based accounting is also entered. Earlier all intake of materials on a warehouse was fixed in the entrance magazine: number which passed through all production and was displayed in all documents — data of quality control, on accompanying labels was assigned to material. In the Sage ERP X3 system this number from the entrance magazine was replaced with a batch — the code which is assigned for material automatically at revenues to a warehouse.

In a system in the automated mode specifications and the process chart are created, terms of projects on the basis of which the production order forms are planned and planning of materials is conducted. Besides, in the company paper turnover of requests and documents which led to emergence of errors, data loss and increase in terms of approval at each stage of the project earlier is completely liquidated.

Result

The project is executed within six months. Users of a system are 28 people — the staff of production divisions and technology department, a warehouse, supply, quality control, sales.

The project allowed to arrange business processes, to considerably reduce routine transactions and the errors arising at the same time and also to increase overall effectiveness of productive activity. Thanks to a system the customer had an opportunity to manage all stages of a production cycle and to analyze project costs.

System implementation solved a problem of coordination in work of divisions on each of stages and excluded risk of data loss. Now each user obtains complete and up-to-date information on the section of responsibility, and the real picture of a situation in the company is available to the management to acceptance of the weighed and justified management decisions.

Sergey Barkhatenko, chief engineer of Progress-Ekologiya Ltd: "System implementation of Sage ERP X3 considerably increased transparency of production and material accounting, purchase planning, cost value formation. Also we almost completely refused paper document flow that led to reduction of errors and fall forward of document handling".

Solution Sage ERP X3

Sage ERP X3 is a full-function management system for medium business and regional divisions of the international companies. More than ten years the ERP system of Sage ERP X3 helps to solve effectively specific problems of the enterprises working in production, distribution and the service industry. 4,000 clients already selected Sage ERP X3 for convenience of using, simplicity of implementation and profitability from 60 countries of the world. The Sage ERP X3 system created by the British company Sage Group is completely localized for work in Russia. A partner of Sage Group in implementation of Sage ERP X3 in Russia and the CIS countries is the Energy Consulting Group. www.sageerp.ru

Contractor

Energy Consulting is the Russian consulting group rendering a broad spectrum of professional services in audit area of the reporting under the Russian and international standards, accounting, tax and legal consulting, due diligence, assessment and cost consultation and also management consulting and information technologies. Energy Consulting founded in 2001 is the main partner (Principal Member Firm) in Russia the international auditor network HLB International, enters into HLB Russian Group. www.ec-group.ru