Buhler India claims that its older ERP deployment is a 'dead horse' as it was
implemented at the stage where it was to support the basic requirement of the
business. This included piece-meal deployments — especially software — that were
different across different platforms, for different business units and
departments. Obviously, this led to independent functioning and the applications
of one department not 'talking' to each other. As business grew, Buhler needed a
system that would completely integrate the system from a system oriented
approach, ensuring realignment of roles according to the global processes and
compliances, highly secured and centralized data, and data transparency with
quick and effective report generation. Buhler claims to have started to realize
the ROI within the first year itself.
Buhler claims that the deployment was carried out with least downtime, and
was carried out completely internally. The total deployment cost was 1.12 crores,
with an expected ROI of 2.5 years and a productive life in excess of 10 years.
In short, the company has started seeing the benefits of the deployment which
was conceptualized to accommodate the local Indian requirement and sync it up to
the global template. At the same time, the global template is not be disturbed
and ensure the business process is in line with the global process within
Buhler, and among its associates. The final deployment was a combination of Dell
servers, workstations and PCs with Windows-based operating environments. The
bottomline though, is the rare occurrence in corporate deployments like these,
where the ROI was planned for 2.5 years, and met within one year.
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Implementation Partner |
Polaris Consultancy |