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| Kemwell Goes The SAP Way |
| Ankush Sohoni |
| With growing business needs, and redundant systems,
Kemwell, a pharmaceutical company, decided to implement mySAP
ERP. Nanaiah M. C., GM-systems, Kemwell Pvt. Ltd. spoke to CXOtoday.com
regarding the recent implementation of SAP’s ERP solution. |
| CXOtoday.com: What was the IT atmosphere in
your organization prior to deploying an ERP? |
Nanaiah
M.C - Before we decided
to take a major IT initiative, such as deploying SAP ERP,
we had Foxpro based systems, which were developed in-house.
Since we are growing quite well, we decided that it was time
for us to implement a system that would enable us to create
some sort of workflow system and organization, within our
enterprise. |
| CXOtoday.com: When did you feel the need to
implement an ERP? |
| Nanaiah M.C -
As mentioned above, we were growing. We cater to some big clients,
such as GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Lupin, Himlaya, etc. In
order to keep a level of organization and transparency, with
regards to our products, we decided that it was time to implement
an ERP. |
| CXOtoday.com: Why did you choose SAP as your
ERP vendor? |
| Nanaiah M.C
- Before implementing SAP, we evaluated a few other vendors,
which included Oracle, JDE and some others, however, the portfolio
and experience that SAP brought to us was unmatchable. |
| CXOtoday.com: Did you experience any issues
while implementing? |
| Nanaiah M.C
- Yes. In fact we did experience a few issues with regards
to our data integration. The master data in our legacy systems
had to be cleaned and ported to excel sheets, and then it was
transferred to the ERP. Apart from the data integration, we
didn’t have any other issues as such. |
| CXOtoday.com: How long did you take to complete
the entire implementation? |
| Nanaiah
M.C - We
started the project on September 16 2004, and we completed everything
on the February 14 this year. We had a dedicated team of 17
people, 10 of which were from our enterprise, and the rest from
our integrators, CVSIT. |
| CXOtoday.com: What kind of investments did you
make for this project? |
| Nanaiah
M.C - We
spent approximately Rs 1.5 crore inclusive of hardware, software
and training. We implemented all of the modules of mySAP ERP. |
| CXOtoday.com: What are your future IT initiatives? |
| Nanaiah
M.C - We
plan to implement SAP’s enterprise portal management tool,
and are also planning to implement SAP’s HR and Payroll
system. |
| CXOtoday.com: Are you satisfied with the performance
of the ERP? |
| Nanaiah
M.C - Yes
definitely. We have made this investment and are very happy
that we did what we did. We are already seeing better workflow
and a much quicker response from our side to our customers.
We are also very happy with the way CVSIT helped with our integration.
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