SAP
Case Study 3: SAP 4.6C based solution
for 10th largest Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer in the World
The Customer:
A Leading Automotive Manufacturer
Technology: The company was operating on in-house
developed legacy applications before moving to 3.1H. It chose
SAP 4.6C to consolidate its operations. The company choose Oracle
as its database and production server from IBM Regatta - 16 CPU
Machine with 32 GB RAM for its SAP implementation.
Customer Description
The organization is fully integrated, automobile
manufacturer. Established in 1945 the company is today among the
world's top 10 producers of commercial vehicles. The operations
of the company are organized in the following business division:
- Commercial Vehicles Business Unit
- Passenger Car Business Unit
- Vehicle Reconditioning and AMC
- Non-Vehicular
The company manufactures the following products
- Passenger cars, multi-utility vehicles, light, medium and heavy
commercial vehicles for goods and passenger transport. The organization
has the following entities:
- 4 Production Plants
- 42 Regional and Sales Offices
- 27 Spare Parts Warehouses
The Challenge
Some of the key challenges as an implementation partner faced
during the implementation were:
- Streamlining of processes across the organization and managing
change
- Adequate hardware sizing ensuring upscale in business operations
and SAP users
- Ensuring end-user training of over 3000 users spread across
Corporate Office, 4 production plants, 42 Regional and Sales
Offices and 27 Spare Parts Warehouses
- More than 7000 Product Variants with 17 level of Bill of Material
- Serialized numbers for vehicles and aggregates - use of bar
code and interfaces
- Employee records and payroll of over 40,000 employees
SAP solution using the following modules was implemented for
the organization:
-
Materials Management
- Sales and Distribution
- Production Planning
- Quality Management
- Finance and Controlling
- Plant Maintenance
- Project Systems
- Asset Management
- External Service Management
- Real Estate
- HR and Payroll for 40,000+ master records
Customer Benefits
- Overall gain in efficiency as a result of streamlining of
business processes
- IT support team optimization across the organizationSmoother
and timely financial consolidation
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