Gulf Oil goes live with SAP

by CyberMedia News

Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, a Hinduja Group company today announced that it has successfully implemented SAP ERP, in its quest to restructure its business processes and improve its operational efficiencies.


Hyderabad-based 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 span of four months.


Subhas Pramanik, managing director, Gulf Oil, said, “Since we have four divisions operating in diverse industrial segments and our growth for the past three years is at an average CAGR of 20 per cent, we needed to significantly trim down the complexity of processes, increase the efficiency of MIS and reduce the operational costs.”


“We had embarked on a challenging task of implementing SAP in three out of four 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.”


Signifying the growth momentum of SAP India, which has over 100 customers in Andhra Pradesh, Rajagopal Balakrishnan, regional director - South, SAP India, said, “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.”

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