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March 19 2010

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Encube Ethical To Deploy SAP ERP

Ankush Sohoni

The SAP Summit ’05 played host to a number of CXOs from all across the country. The CXOs ranged from those working with giant enterprises as well as the smaller ones. Chirag Gandhi, head – IT, Encube Ethical, spoke to CXOtoday.com regarding the implementation of SAP ERP.

CXOtoday.com: Could give us a brief overview of your company and your line of business?

Chirag Gandhi - We are basically a pharmaceutical company, which specializes in dermatology products. We primarily undertake contracts from company, and we see a lot of business coming out from offshore companies too. We also make these products and export them too.

CXOtoday.com: Why the need for implementing an ERP?

Chirag Gandhi - We initially had our legacy systems in place, which mainly comprised of an in-house Foxpro based solution, but the legacy systems could only do what they could do, and not more than that. Our customers were using an ERP, and in order to maintain a certain order and consistency with regards to our contracts, and to put a certain kind of workflow in place, we decided that we needed an ERP. The decision was well supported by our management.

CXOtoday.com: So why did you decide to implement SAP’s ERP, when you had other vendors to choose from?

Chirag Gandhi - Well, SAP is quite well known as the number one ERP vendor in the game. We wanted to be associated with them, however, that is not the prime reason. Most of our customers/clients use SAP and it is highly recommended by every IT manager. Although, we did evaluate other vendors, we found SAP to be the most beneficial to us.

CXOtoday.com : Did you put to task, a team?

Chirag Gandhi - Yes. We had a team of our own engineers, as well as a team from CVS-IT, our integrators, and totally, we had an 18-member strong team. We started our implementation on the May 1 2005, and plan to complete the implementation in another 4 months.

CXOtoday.com : What kind of infrastructure does SAP sit on?

Chirag Gandhi - Well, we have always used HP’s servers, and we have continued to use these, however, we are using an upgraded set. We have deployed HP’s ML350 servers, and HP’s ML370 servers in our production plant. With regards to our database the company uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

The Rs 17 crore, Encube Ethical, is a contract-based company, which specializes in manufacturing dermatology products.

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