Letter to C&MD on Utilization of Experienced and trained Manpower for ERP Services

Sir,

Under the initiative of our visionary board, ONGC has recently implemented various new IT projects in the areas of creation of IT infrastructure and integrated applications. One such initiative is Project ICE - Information Consolidation for Efficiency. Through this initiative all the business process of ONGC have been integrated electronically through a single ERP platform. Project ICE is one of the largest ERP implementations in Asia, considering its spread across all geographical locations of ONGC, in number of users which is about 13,000 plus presently, the number of SAP modules deployed and the man months of efforts that have gone in.

The project was implemented by a joint team of ONGC and SAP India. The ONGC team was consisting mostly of middle managers from all the functional disciplines of ONGC i.e., E&T, Engineering, Finance, Costing, Drilling, Production, Technical services etc. The experience in implementing this Project has given this team a tremendous insight into understanding the business complexities of India’s largest E&P Company, and the integration aspects of business where every business function has an impact in physical and financial terms on every other function. This team has also implemented certain high end add-on SAP modules such as Asset Life Cycle Costing Module, Strategic Enterprise Management and Portal based operational analytics, analytics through Business Warehouse and E- procurement etc., many of which were being done for first time in the country.

The job is still not over. We need to plan for improvement in the system, develop this system as the main tool for MIS, data analysis and long term planning.

Sir, it is felt that this vast knowledge and experience that has developed over the period of two – three years would go waste if not utilized gainfully. Today most of the members of the team are most sought after as consultants in the country for implementation of ERP practice. If an initiative to utilize this manpower gainfully is not put in place, the knowledge gained would wither away if the team is disbanded.

It is felt that this experience gained by this team can be gainfully utilized not only by ONGC for its expansion plans such as in downstream and retailing activities, overseas implementations for OVL, sister concern MRPL etc., but also may be made available to other E&P companies elsewhere in India or abroad.

It is requested that we be given an opportunity to make a presentation to you and share our vision for utilizing this knowledge base that has developed during the last three years.

With warm regards.

Yours ,

(Amit Kumar)
President ASTO, Delhi

Copy to:

1. Director (Finance), ONGC, New Delhi.
2. Director (HR), ONGC, New Delhi.
3. Director (Offshore), ONGC, New Delhi.
4. Director (Onshore), ONGC, New Delhi.
5. Director (Exploration), ONGC, New Delhi.
6. Director (T&FS), ONGC, New Delhi.
7. President ASTO – CWC, New Delhi.
8. GM - Head ICE, New Delhi.