Wipro has successfully completed the first phase of its SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution implementation at the National Petrochemical Industrialization Company (NPIC). The project included NPIC’s first plant, Saudi Polyolefins Company, Jubail, and NPIC headquarters, Riyadh. The second phase has already started and once this is rolled out the system will be accessible to NPIC stakeholders across the world.

“This ERP project is critical to us as it integrates all core business processes in the company. We are delighted to have chosen Wipro as our IT Partner in this business critical project,” said Saleh F. Al-Nazha, managing director and president, Saudi Polyolefins Company.

“Their technology expertise, domain understanding and sheer commitment to this project has helped us roll out the ERP solution across all our offices. Wipro was a clear contender for the mySAP implementation mainly because of its strong SAP expertise and their globally proven quality processes.”

Wipro is implementing the project over a period of nine months in two phases. The first phase included financial accounting, controlling, materials management and project system and human resources management. In the second phase more modules; such as plant maintenance, sales and distribution, quality management and production planning are being covered.

The solution was implemented on a Compaq Proliant DL580 Gen 2 production server with two database servers and two applications servers and was designed using an SQL database with NT Advanced Server 2000.

“Wipro’s expertise on the SAP platform and extensive implementation experience were clearly convincing,” Al-Nazha continued. Given our needs as a start-up operation we were also impressed by the fact that Wipro was an end-to-end service provider and was able to help us plan and build the IT infrastructure and help put systems in place.”

Syed Mansoor Ahmed, general manager, business operations Middle East, Wipro Infotech commented, “We are very happy to be associated with NPIC for such a complex project. Our aim has been to integrate technology into customers’ core businesses and enhance the value of their services.

- Arab News CompuNet 9 September 2003