Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, a Hinduja Group company has successfully implemented SAP ERP, in its quest to restructure its business processes and improve its operational efficiencies. Gulf Oil is a Hyderabad based global player in the diverse business areas such as industrial explosives, mining products and services, infrastructure, lubricants, specialty oils and chemicals, active pharma ingredients (bulk drugs) and pharma formulations. Gulf Oil has deployed SAP ERP to automate, streamline and increase operational efficiency in its various lines of businesses namely: industrial explosives, specialty chemicals & APIs / pharmaceuticals, infrastructure and mining services. Gulf Oil has achieved this ‘Go Live’, in a short span of 4 months. SAP ERP was chosen over other solution providers due to SAP ERP industry specific experience, expertise and dynamic implementation partners.

Speaking on the occasion, Subhas Pramanik, Managing Director, Gulf Oil said, “Since we have 4 Divisions operating in diverse industrial segments and our growth for the past 3 years is at an average CAGR of 20%, we needed to significantly trim down the complexity of processes, increase the efficiency of MIS and reduce the operational costs. We chose SAP for its integration capabilities and its proven track record. We had embarked on a challenging task of implementing SAP in 3 out of 4 different lines of businesses within a strict time schedule and I am extremely glad that we have been able to achieve this ‘Go-Live’ within the target date. As the project name ‘Spark’ suggests, this implementation will ignite a business transformation and is beginning of our journey with SAP. I believe this will enable us to achieve desired growth, increase efficiency and drive further innovation. ”

The SAP implementation is expected to assist Gulf Oil Corporation to seamlessly integrate its various businesses and provide improved visibility across the enterprise, resulting in control over operations and quick access to real time information across its various locations and businesses.

“We are pleased to partner with Gulf Oil in order to help them integrate their diverse business processes. With our comprehensive portfolio of solutions, applications, technology and services for this industry, we are sure we will provide Gulf Oil the optimum momentum in their business transformation journey,” said Rajagopal Balakrishnan, Regional Director- South, SAP India.

SAP targets aggressive growth across segments in Andhra Pradesh; achieves more than 100 customer partnerships in Andhra Pradesh

Signifying the growth momentum of SAP India in Andhra Pradesh, SAP announced significant success and growth plans for the fast growing enterprise software solutions market in Andhra Pradesh. SAP has over 100 customers in Andhra Pradesh till date across segments and key verticals including Oil & Gas, Engineering, Constructions & Operations, Professional Services and Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences.  The Key wins in 2007 in this region include Gulf Oil, Infotech Enterprises, Nagarjuna Group, Pragati Printers, Priya Foods, Supergas, Hindustan Sanitary, AGI Glass, Shantha Biotech, RCI, Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd., Ship Building Centre

Other major players who have successfully implemented SAP solutions in Andhra Pradesh include Dr. Reddy’s, Indian School of Business, VST Industries, ITC Paper Board, BHEL – Hyderabad, NATCO Pharma, Nagarjuna Fertilizers, Nagarjuna Agrichem

 “Andhra Pradesh’s mineral wealth and strategic location offers tremendous growth potential and has attracted investment across segments like oil & gas, power, refineries, information technology, infrastructure and retail,” said Rajagopal Balakrishnan, Regional Director - South, SAP India. “Today, to tap the global opportunities and to streamline operations, enterprises in Andhra Pradesh are adopting enterprise software solutions. SAP is witnessing that large, medium and small enterprises across Andhra Pradesh are fast adopting software solutions. SAP, with its broad range of solutions for enterprises of all sizes and over 26 vertical specific solutions, is well poised to be the preferred enterprise software solutions vendor for enterprises in Andhra Pradesh”.

Realizing the tremendous growth potential in Andhra Pradesh, SAP has increased reach in Tier III and IV cities including Varangal, Vizag, Guntur, Vijayawada etc. SAP India has also opened seven SAP Education Centres across Hyderabad, Varangal, Guntur, Tirupati, Vizag and Vijayawada. These training centres are well poised to train and develop SAP certified professionals. To cater to the growing needs of the small enterprises SAP India has also opened up two SAP Business One Learning Centres in Vishakhapatnam and Hyderabad and is further planning on four such Business One Learning Centres in Hyderabad in 2008.

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