By Engr. Salman Ahmed Khan, Assistant Managers Spares Planning, Amreli Steel
Digitalization system have already brought up revolution around the globe by all means making connection of people more closely and in the quick real time in-form of the official meetings, virtual conferences and webinars etc.
Pakistan is also gradually making its way towards digitization and in its latest efforts to strengthen the country’s digital landscape was in the beginning of this year when Pakistan Prime Minister launched Digital Pakistan an initiative aimed for introducing latest technology for the public welfare.
The digital Pakistan initiative has been designed both for the government and the private sector to work towards a digitally progressive and inclusive Pakistan.
One of the key visions to launch this initiative was E-governmental system which aim is to digitize intra-government operations and processes towards a paperless and efficient environment, and also digitizes government services for citizens and businesses for better delivery.
During the beginning of this year 2020, Prime Minister also met with SAP CEO, aside from World Economic Forum which was appreciable in which he emphasis and stress upon the importance of digital applications for governance and the industrial operations and correspondingly further the role it can play in responding to citizen’s complaint and numerous applications.
Now since the start of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, there has been a lot of development in Energy and infrastructure, Development of Power Plants, Industrial Parks, Ports & Shipping, Railway & Logistics, Social Economic Development, Finance Cooperation and Human resource development. Therefore, it is necessary that all these CPEC related operations must be carried out through centralized enterprise resource planning system to carry forward each department business in an integrated manner.
Systems, Applications and Products SAP is the name of the world’s leading Enterprise Resource Management solution that is the information system that helps a data-driven organization centralize data from different processes and departments, thus ensuring that information flows smoothly and securely.
SAP brings together different databases being used within the organization and provides a seamless platform for integration and use of information. It removes system inaccuracies by removing the duplications and eliminates the manual database processing.
As users get access to real-time data at a single point, they can make faster and more accurate decisions. Managers can have greater control over delays and breakdowns and prompt potential disruptions in key processes.
ERP makes it easier for managers to generate customized reports, which allows them independently use data for complex reporting. This enables the in-house IT team to focus on other important tasks.
ERP assist the firms in achieving the operational excellence through the process efficiencies and business agility these entire combine together to streamline the whole company process related to Material Management, Logistics, Sales & Distribution, Production, Maintenance and Finance through its different modules.
Further it also assists firms in the Human resource development, Quality management and the asset management which comes under domain of organization corporate service.
As aforesaid, the stake holders of CPEC must look into this option of the adopting the leading Enterprise Resource Management solutions in form of SAP for centralized integrating information of all carrying forward and developed projects for smooth and effective reporting and better decision making as this will also bring up major breakthrough in current government vision of making Digital Pakistan.
It is also pertinent to mention here that many top leading private companies of Pakistan has already adopted the implementation of SAP which has bring up positive changes in their operations cost optimization and overall growth playing an equal part of promoting the Digital Pakistan .
