Malabar Cement, the flagship company of the Government of Kerala has announced that it has recently gone live on SAP ERP. Keltron was chosen as the IT partner to provide the required solution.

Malabar Cement is looking at integrating its accounting, production, procurement and HR through SAP’s ERP implementation. Some of the key benefits the company is expecting through this implementation include improved sales and quality, on-line availability of information, integration across the organisation, standardisation of business process to improve efficiency and productivity and effective utilisation of sesources.

“Our principal objective at Malabar Cement is to improve business efficiency and control cost,” said Srinivas K S, IAS, MD, Malabar Cement. “Through the fully integrated SAP Business Solutions, we also aim to achieve information transparency across organisation and enhance customer relationship by empowering our employees through IT enablement”.

The project was implemented within six months, with 8 modules going live covering 3 manufacturing and 12 sales and distribution locations.

According to Ranjan Das, president and CEO, SAP Indian Sub continent, “The SAP Business Solution deployment will enable Malabar Cement to obtain significant business benefits from accounting to reporting, planning production and maintenance and employment interface.”