Petroneel – Nile Oil Marketing Services

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Customer Name: Petroneel

Industry: Oil and Gas Sector

Project Name: SAP ERP Solution

Offering: Enterprise Resource Planning and Human Capital Management

Customer Need:

Enterprise resource planning projects are notoriously challenging, especially on this scale. In this public tender, Intercom’s main challenge was to highlight its solution against other competitors, presenting its collaborative benefits and ROI. The solution had to link between Petroneel’s two main centers in Cairo and Asyut City along with other 7 branches country-wide. Upon winning the tender, Intercom had to develop a project implementation plan to cover all the project scope and the customer requirements within a period of only 6-8 months.

Project Solution Description:

Intercom Enterprises presented SAP ERP solution integrating 6 main modules:

  • The SAP Financial and Controlling (FICO) Module manages the financial position of the company in real time and controls the flow of cost and revenue.
  • SAP Material Management (MM) handles Procurement and Inventory Management.
  • SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) manages quotations, sales order and all the way towards billing the customer.
  • SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) optimizes the procurement strategy, to work more effectively with the supplier pool and to gain long-term benefits from supplier relationships.
  • SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) enables effective management of information about the people at the organization and integrates information with the other SAP modules and external systems.
  • SAP Production Planning (PP) manages the master data needed like Bill of Materials, Routings and Work Centers and stores it in one separate component.

Petroneel’s SAP ERP implementation project was remarkable not only for its immense scope but also for its tight schedule and execution timeframe. key to a successful implementation was that Intercom had all the needed resources and team structure in place.

Solution Benefits:

Petroneel has now gained a better understanding and clearer insights about how its business is performing, with an improved financial, production, human resources, material, sales and distribution management and increased margins. The company has also achieved more control over its pricing and gained more visibility into where improvements are doable. The reports generated that takes in multiple operational data have vastly optimized the company staff understanding their impact on various business areas, and have enabled a crystal-clear & prompt decision-making process.

Project Name: Data center servers, storage, virtualization and backup solution

Offering: IT Systems

Customer Need:

Nile Oil Marketing Company required an efficient and scalable business solution that guarantees the continuity of business against Hardware and Software failure, increasing their overall productivity whilst economizing their expenditure and reclaiming their time.

Project Solution Description:

To meet the business objectives of Nile Oil Company, Intercom Enterprises proposed building robust solution architecture. Based on building end-to-end reliable and redundant infrastructures – Hardware and Software consisting of: Servers, Storage, Switches, Backup Software and VMware environments. Intercom Enterprises offered the Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA as preconfigured systems designed to help organizations instantly access, model and analyze all of their transactional and analytical data in real time. After conducting the analysis, Intercom supplied a system designed to run mission-critical workloads – The Lenovo System x3850 X6 Server which delivers fast application performance. Along with this The Intel Xeon Processor E7 which was recommended for its (MCA) machine check architecture recovery, a RAS feature that enables the handling of system errors that otherwise require that the operating system be halted. To make certain that the best foundation was in place for the applications, cloud and business; Intercom suggested the vSphere VMware platform. This is an ideal platform for any environment that provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates your digital transformation to hybrid cloud and success in the digital economy.

Solution Benefits:

As a result of the integrated solutions provided, Nile Oil Company was able to strengthen data protection, save on Hardware costs and achieve business continuity and always-available IT. In addition to improving service levels and application quality. The components provided by the offered solution had exceptional integrations with each other as well as with the existing environment. Which minimized the complexity of implementation and administration tasks needed. Intercom assisted in the seamless execution and ensured the smooth-running of operations, from project management, delivery and testing right through to tuning, on-job training and technical support which enabled Nile Oil Company to develop a competitive advantage by putting into effect the right business technology.