Business Bureau :
Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Wednesday inaugurated implementation of ERP pan Coal India at a function held at New Delhi. With this, ERP is now operational pan Coal India including all its subsidiaries and units. Joshi also released the book “Fuelling India’s Energy Needs” on this occasion. The book tells the story of sustainable efforts made by the world’s largest coal mining company CIL. Minister of State for Coal, Mines and Railways Raosaheb Patil Danve, Secretary (Coal) Dr Anil Kumar Jain and Chairman – CIL Pramod Agrawal were also present on the occasion.
ERP is a great tool of information technology intervention, which will help CIL improve its business performance and growth with enhanced data integrity and cost effectiveness. This will in turn help the national miner evolve as a global player. SAP ERP at CIL comprises of seven modules namely Human Capital Management (HCM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production and Planning (PP), Plant Maintenance (PM), Project System (PS), Material Management (MM) and Finance & Control (FICO).
Before ERP, working was localized and discreetin subsidiary companies of CIL, lacking standardisation and unification in business process across CIL. Implementation of SAP ERP enables CIL get reliable and accurate real-time data from source which will help in informed decision making, consistent results thus achieving operational excellence and improve productivity with greater transparency. ERP in Coal India has been implemented in two phases.
