Hi,
Executives face the important task of realigning current business processes and implementing ERP systems to support improved capability, especially in five business functions:
Budgeting and control
Centralized capital management, portfolio management, and multi-channel financing
Improved project management to strictly control project progress and costs
Effective pricing and other promotion methods to enhance power usage
To achieve these goals, they chose SAP as their integrated management information system and partner to successfully combine information flow through logistics, treasury, and operational data to achieve high performance in daily operations. The SAP implementation also promoted the company's transformation from a planning-economy-oriented business operation to a market-driven operation. It helped the company develop a centralized organizational structure, clarify management responsibility, and improve the quality of its service to its customers.
ERP system implementation is a huge project with a wide scope, great capital investment, a long implementation period, and some risks.
It encountered some problems during transformation, including dealing with the separation of power generation and power T&D.
Key areas impacted include:
- Human resources (including OM, PA, PT, payroll)
- FI/CO (including FI, CO, budgeting, AM)
- MM (including purchasing, supplier management, pricing, contract management)
- PS (including structure management, progress management, document management, budgeting, logistics, accounting)
- PM (including facility register, maintenance planning, repairing management)
According to the client's business requirements, it also helped in developing several system interfaces, including SAP-CESS, SAP-CIS, SAP-LOGISTIC, and SAP-GIS.
The ERP implementation pilot started with three months' worth of support. They adopted an integrated implementation strategy throughout the project, which enabled them to launch the HR module first and then integrate it with other modules after their implementations.
During implementation, management and operational employees had a chance to communicate business needs and requirements, which is key to both the project's success and the improvement of the company's business. Organize several rounds of detailed training as the ERP system is a new concept to the employees. Subsequently, users became qualified to support and train new users in the system.