mySAP ERP implementation for SRSL by LGS

Headquartered at Belgaum in the southern Indian state of Karnataka – Shree Renuka Sugars Limited (SRSL) is an integrated manufacturing company with strategic focus on Sugar and its allied products in Power and Ethanol. SRSL chose a SAP solution to replace its legacy system environment which was not flexible and unable to support the rapidly changing business requirements.  was chosen as the implementation partner, including guidance for design and finalization of technical infrastructure.

With the successful SAP implementation at SRSL, is set to become one of the leading SAP solutions provider in the Sugar vertical. In fact,  has become SAP Partner for developing, marketing and deploying SAP All-In-One Sugar Solution.

The business case and requirement

SRSL’s main objective with the ERP Project was to implement a solution that would address the business requirements of the production units associated with SRSL.

SRSL was looking for the following:	Testimonials
On-time information Proper costing Seamless integration of data and cross functionality Real-time reports on inventory, profitability and receivables Proper financial auditing and regulatory compliance Standardization and avoidance of duplication of efforts Optimization of working capital Knowledge management	“We were aware that the short implementation time could be a problem but still rose to the challenge so that we could meet the deadlines set by the management.” Dwarakanath Acharya, Chief Financial Officer, SRSL

In short, High Performance, High Availability and Systems Resilience were the major factors SRSL was expecting from ’ solution.

The key challenges

	Lack of real-time, transparent data/limited visibility of inventory and production
	Non-integrated business processes
	No effective support for customer services/inability to meet customer demand for collaboration and information
	Inability to support new corporate strategies

The solution

The project started in June 2006 and included the delivery of the broad scope of SAP functionality covering:

	Sales and Distribution
	Finance and Controlling
	Productions planning and quality management
	Materials Management
	Analysis & Reporting using Business Warehouse
	Derivatives Handling

Back office processes were:

	Human Resources and Payroll
	Plant Maintenance
	Project systems

Using the latest version of ECC 5.0 and NetWeaver technology, developed a solution for Cane Management System (CMS), which is critical to Sugar factories and their geographic locations. proposed to restrict CMS to few critical functions, which could enable factory operations to continue in case of network outage.

Cane Management System

	Plantation Management
	Cutting Order Management
	Cane Transport Management
	Seed & fertilizer Management
	Cane Accounting

This involved complete overhaul of CMS with reduced but critical functionality. documented the method of operating & maintaining these new CMS so that the work of SRSL’s IT support staff has been reduced to only maintaining the new CMS applications.

 Overview of changes to CMS and integration with SAP

The key benefits

	Better visibility into production, warehouse operations and inventory levels; improved inventory control and inventory turnover ratio
	Faster and proactive decision making and improved efficiency
	Ability to meet customer delivery schedules
	Eliminated manual data entry and time-consuming processes
	Better control on Vendor payments; improved planning/reliable bills of material and order processing
	Real-time notification of critical events to aid proactive response
	Strong foundation laid for future integration initiatives provided by SAP NetWeaver
	Daily Manufacturing & Plant performance report now available online
	Streamlined scheduling and distribution

With the successful implementation, SRSL became the first Indian company to deploy mission-critical mySAP ERP on Linux operating system, using the Steeleye Lifekeeper High Availability Cluster Solution.