The Singareni Collieries Company : ERP Project

This company operates in 4 districts in AP in rural environments. Among the

challenges they faced were issues related to network/connectivity, low IT skills

among the end users, poor response times for experts to attend to any issues

because of remote locations, etc.



SCCL legacy system architecture was distributed and there were several platforms
on which applications were developed. Integration between various functions and

various locations was achieved by manual intervention that involved lots of

duplicate data entry. Home grown legacy applications worked in silos and

integration between apps had to be done manually. Lots of duplicate data entry

and paper interactions caused errors. The legacy systems were incapable of

processing data real time in the logistics and financial supply chains. Due to

the nature of business, a lot of employees needed to be transferred from one

location to another and running payroll in a distributed manner at each location

lead to errors and had to be manually corrected.

It was essential to have a robust integrated ERP solution. Keeping in view the
immediate needs of SCCL, SAP-ERP has been implemented pertaining to logistics,

FICO,HCM-Payroll, etc. Some of the benefits are: availability/visibility of

information on real time basis on the desks of the SAP users for effective

decision support system, changes/reduction in cycle times of various processes,

early warning systems & system alerts, etc.