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Santanu Sanyal

Durgapur, Sept. 30 Steel Authority of India Ltd’s Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) is going live with enterprise resource planning from tomorrow (Thursday).

Giving this information to newspersons here on Wednesday, Mr V. Shyamsundar, Managing Director of DSP, said this was the second SAIL plant to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP), the first being Bhilai Steel Plant in April this year.

“This is as per the decision taken by SAIL’s corporate office in 2004,” he said.

The implementation of ERP comprising six modules cost DSP Rs 35 crore and took 15 months. Hewlett-Packard was the implementation partner who covered key functions such as production, planning and control, quality management, materials management, plant management and sales and distribution and finance and control.

A next-generation data centre of world standard, spread over 3,000 sq.ft, complete with servers and storage devices supplied by Sun Microsystems has been set up by Tata Consultancy Services in collaboration with Emerson and Honeywell. This centre would support the ERP system. The implementation consultant was MDI.

Explaining the benefits of ERP based on solutions provided by SAP, Germany, Mr S.K. Hazra Chowdhury, DSP’s General Manager, Automation, and Project Owner, ERP, said from Thursday the visibility of operation would be enhanced.

Also, strategies would be linked to operation and planning, and execution and analysis would be integrated online. There would be control over cost and inventory management so much that it would be possible to assess the shop-floor inventory also.

“We’ve implemented the best global practices, and the way things were being done would be changed from tomorrow,” he said. “We hope to achieve a cost reduction of Rs 3,000 per tonne of saleable steel due to cost optimisation measures to be adopted as part of ERP.”

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