KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.has announced the go-live of SAP ERP for the Airport Authority of India (AAI). As a part of E-Governance initiative, AAI decided to implement ERP in HR, finance, material management and project system functions to improve productivity, efficiency and transparency under the project named “Parivartan.” KPIT was selected as the implementation partner in June 2012.
The SAP ERP implementation by KPIT Cummins covers 125 Airports across India and is being synchronized with the new financial year. The system will handle payroll accounting for nearly 19000 employees of AAI at various airports across the country. The system will also be integrated with the legacy systems such as Electronic Tendering and Procurement System (ETAPS), Airport Information Management System (AIMS) etc. With this implementation the organization shall become process driven and substantially paperless. Apart from automating functions, the system will provide “MIS dashboards” for senior management.
K.N. Srivastava, IAS, Secretary Civil Aviation, Govt. of India was the Chief Guest on the occasion of go-live of project “Parivartan”. V.P. Agrawal, Chairman, AAI, Board Members and Senior Officers of AAI graced the occasion. Also present were Mathew Thomas, Vice President SAP India,Pawan Sharma, President & Head of Integrated Enterprise solutions, KPIT Cummins and Vishal Jain, Vice President, SAP Business Unit, KPIT Cummins along with their team members.
V.P. Agrawal, Chairman, AAI said, “This new enterprise software implementation will not only improve productivity, efficiency and cost effectiveness but will also bring high level of transparency in the vital HR and finance functions within the organization. The ERP implementation will enable standardization of processes across all the AAI operations in India and will become an accurate and single source of information.”
Pawan Sharma, President, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. said, “We leveraged our proven expertise and experience in large scale ERP implementations to partner with the Airport Authority of India in their ERP modernization program which included digitization of over 20 years’ of HR data of more than 18000 employees. We brought in all regional and main offices under an integrated single system instance software solution and integrated it with various pre-existing legacy applications.”
