Agha Steel deploys Fiori enabled SAP

KARACHI: Agha Steel Industries (ASI) in a ceremony held on Friday announced that it is all set to implement Pakistan’s first end-to-end Fiori-enabled SAP on Cloud in collaboration with SAP, Ernest & Young, TallyMarks and IBL Unisys.

This up-gradation would transfer the supply chain of ASI on the paradigms of lean manufacturing by elevating its operational and strategic agility, adaptability and alignment. SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has a proven track record of reducing inventory holding cost and presently 10 per cent to 15 per cent reduction in cost is projected from this technological up gradation. It is also expected that system will reduce the data storage space requiring less amount of space to store high data volumes. Furthermore, compact storage would result in better throughput by reducing the manufacturing cycle time.

Speaking at the occasion ASI CEO Hussain Agha emphasized that global steel industry was moving at a disruptive speed and to keep pace with it, Pakistani steel producers had to be highly competitive. This latest, state of the art, the solution makes it possible for an organization to be ambidextrous by allowing the organization to maintain a fit between its cost-effectiveness, product quality and innovativeness.

He further clarified that the phrase “zero man intervention” coined for this new system did not mean the elimination of human resource from the production processes. Instead, this represents the capability of the new system to help the human resource quarters in dramatically improving their efficiency and effectiveness. Doing so, the new system not only delivers better customer experience but also bridges the demand and supply gap. In addition, the adoption of SAP Fiori tool will simplify the user interface; help to display data in a clearer and more intuitive way and make data entry easier.

SAP-Pakistan Country Head Saqib told that the system would transfer the supply chain of Agha steel on the paradigms of lean manufacturing by elevating its operational and strategic agility, adaptability and alignment. From the strategic management perspective, the system will provide the real-time information to the stakeholders for precise decision making. Putting together, the new system is expected to provide resilient supply chain and operational efficiencies to ASI enabling the company to be a global competitor.

This end-to-end driven technology elevates the quality precision to the highest level by producing large production volumes without any human error. The project is aimed to upgrade the technological capabilities as well as an operational harness of ASI.