In its journey to become India’s most valuable plant nutrition company and still adhere multiple regulations, Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals (NFCL), needed to de-merge its fertilizer and oil business into two separate legal entities. One of the new entities needed to undergo a name change (to Kakinada Fertilizers) before it could be re-christened Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals. “In a project of this nature, to protect existing data, organizations need to invest in server and storage infrastructure and application licenses, which, conservatively, would cost 0.5X
the current spend,” says V. Srinivas, CIO, NFCL. “However, we decided to restructure the existing SAP storage and server setup to use all available spare capacities.” The strategy, which was conceived and implemented in just two months by an in-house team, saved NFCL time and about Rs 100 lakh in equipment it didn’t have to buy—while adhering to existing licensing agreements of various software application vendors. The downtime of the SAP application was nine days, two days less than planned.
WINNER Company Name:
Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Industry:
Manufacturing Headquarters:
Hyderabad Employees:
V. Srinivas Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals
1,790 IT Team Internal:
31 Managing Director:
K. Rahul Raju
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