Press Release (GA)
Mangalore, Sep 30: ONGC bagged the Special Jury Award for the largest implementation of SAP in Asia at a special SAP-ACE awards function for customer excellence held in Mumbai on September 27, 2006.
SAP India organized the event to honour its association with Indian industry and to award the excellence achieved in SAP implementation by its customers. Industry leaders of India and Sri Lanka participated in the event.
The function was organized at Hotel Hyatt Regency where GM-Head, HRD and Former Head, ICE K S Jamestin and GM-Head ICE and T Ravindran received the award. The duo was instrumental in the implementation of the intricate SAP system.
The project was implemented under the guidance of former CMD Subir Raha, Director (HR), Dr. A K Balyan, and the then Executive Director-Corporate Planning A Kaviraj.
The jury consisting of industry experts former CMD of ONGC Subir Raha, former CMD of BSNL Prithipal Singh, and VP-Information Systems, Hero Honda Ltd. S R Balasubramanium had a tough time deciding the winners from 84 nominations received from India and Sri Lanka.
The awards were categorized as: business impact, business innovation, business ROI, fastest implementation, best templated implementation, business sectors (viz. products, services, retail, energy, media and professional services), automotive, engineering and construction, pharma, oil and gas, mill products, public services and special jury awards.
ONGC has the IT mission to develop an integrated, flexible and standardized Information Technology architecture for fundamental competitive advantage. The organization realigned its business processes to bring all the legacy systems under a common ERP platform nicknamed as project ICE (Information Consolidation for Efficiency).
The vision of the then C&MD Mr. Subir Raha to have “One organization, one data, one Information” ushered in a new era of organization-wide information sharing, and its use would enhance business efficiency.
ONGC implemented an enterprise-wide ERP implementation under Project ICE comprising 23 SAP modules. The implementation work was carried out within a tight schedule of 30 months at more than 500 physical locations across the country.
It ranged from mobile survey units at Jwalamukhi in Himachal Pradesh and deep-sea vessels at Bay of Bengal to production installations in far-flung areas of Assam and Drilling rigs in the desert of Rajasthan.
The project, initially aimed at serving an estimated 10,000 end-users, currently has 23000 end-users working on the system and using the employee self-service (ESS) functionality under SAMPARC.
The project’s magnitude could be gauged from the fact that it constituted of 150 Project Core Team Members, 60 SAP Consultants, 18000 sq.ft Project Office, 4000 Sq. ft area data center with 22.5 TB storage capacity to be built, involving over 10 agencies with an estimated cost of Rs.1950 million.
In terms of scope, the number of end-users and SAP modules, Project ICE is one of the largest ERP implementation projects in Asia. The project kicked-off on January 21, 2002, and was implemented throughout ONGC, within 27 months from concept to completion of organization-wide roll out.
Under the guidance and constant monitoring by Dr A K Balyan, Director (HR) and I/C, IT & Infocom the project has already kicked-off overseas with the implementation at ONGC Nile Ganga BV for its operations at Khartoum, Sudan and Amsterdam.
The support from C&MD, ONGC R S Sharma, and the Board of Directors, would help the organization in realizing its vision to be amongst the top 10 E&P companies in the world.
GM-Head, ICE, Mr. T.Ravindran, while speaking to ongcreports dedicated the award to the consistent hard work put in by the ICE team members and the entire team of ONGCians for making it possible.