Jindal South West (JSW) Steel Ltd, a steel manufacturer in the country recently completed the implementation of Oracle's E-Business Suite 11i.10, in order to enhance its production capacity and drive expansion plans throughout its business.
The Oracle E-Business Suite implementation will enable JSW Steel to achieve integrated accounting, common business procurement practices, unified human resources management and effective project cost monitoring across its plant locations. Additionally, the solution will also ensure that JSW Steel has automated project cost monitoring abilities throughout the expansion phase.
JSW Steel has implemented Oracle E-Business Suite on Red Hat Linux on IBM eServer X 365 Xeon MP and IBM eServer X 445 Xeon MP.
"We chose the Linux platform because it offers security, reliability, and performance at a lower total cost of ownership. Moreover, Oracle and Red Hat have been collaborating to make further enhancements to Linux to support enterprise class functionality," noted K. Vijayraghavan, chief general manager (IT), JSW Steel.
"This enables our Linux operating systems to effectively run mission-critical applications. The combination of Linux, IBM xSeries (Intel) servers and Oracle database and applications deliver swift ROI and enable us to achieve fully integrated business functionality across all small business units under JSW Steel," added Vijayraghavan.
The company has been using Oracle Financials since 1998. The solution has enabled JSW to reduce accounting book closing time by more than 10%. It was this kind of return on investment (RoI) that prompted JSW to choose Oracle over the other vendors.
JSW Steel went live in May 2005 on several Oracle E-Business Suite modules including Oracle Purchasing, Inventory, Financials and Oracle Project Costing.
JSW Steel Limited is an integrated steel plant manufacturing unit having the capacity of producing 2.5 million tons of finished steel per annum for upstream facilities and 2.0 million tons per annum for downstream facilities like cold rolling and galvanizing, pipe, gas cylinders and many others.
