Saturday, May 16, 2009

SAP's customer success story about JKH

With up to 50% efficiency increase through improved productivity using shared services, John Keells Holdings Ltd., the premier conglomerate in Sri Lanka, is reaping impressive returns on its
mySAP™ ERP solution investments.

Strategic Move to Gain Competitive Edge From its modest beginnings as a produce and exchange brokering company in 1870, John Keells has evolved to become Sri Lanka’s
premier conglomerate, the single largest company quoted on the Colombo Stock Exchange, and the benchmark of the Sri Lankan economy.

The company has grown considerably over the past few decades, constantly reinventing itself in pursuit of growth opportunities within competitive sectors. Today’s John Keells, with about 18,890 employees across the country, has a diversified business portfolio covering food and beverage, transportation, leisure, infrastructure, information technology, financial services, and trade.

As the premier conglomerate in the country, John Keells is on a relentless pursuit of operational efficiency. To become a worldclass organization and boost shareholder value, the company made a strategic decision to deploy an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, as a fundamental building block to making the enterprise successful and competitive.

Visit SAP.com to download the full case study.. http://www.sap.com/usa/industries/consumer/midsize/pdf/0082051_John_Keells_Holdings_LTD._Succ.pdf

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Lanka IOC goes for SAP

27-Jan-2008By Lankika Ellepola

System applications products for data processing (SAP) are to be implemented as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminals Limited (CPSTL).This implementation will cover its business partners and shareholding companies Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and Lanka IOC PLC. Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC) will consult in this process, to implement the SAP solution in these three companies.SAP is been chosen after carefully assessing the strengths of the system. The system is well recognized as leading ERP software globally and more than 500 organizations all over the world in Oil and Gas sector have deployed SAP as ERP software. The ERP system once implemented, will lead to online connectivity between all locations of three companies, real time data availability through the integrated network, concurrent updating of data, uniformity in coding of assets, customers, suppliers, centralized controls and ease in obtaining vital management information for better decision making.The project Indianoil will run this project and will be completed in one year’s time starting from the 16th of January 2008. The project will be done in two phases, first being to cover identification and procurement of hardware and network components, and the system implementation will take in the second step.