Updated on: Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT- R) has announced a "kick-off meeting" for the implementation of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. The IIT Roorkee conducted the launch event at the Multi Activity Centre Auditorium within its campus. Top management officials of IIT Roorkee and Atos India were present at the event.
"It has been a constant endeavor at IIT Roorkee to manage change in our processes and systems and to ensure that they are user friendly and transparent. The Digital ERP Solution provided from Atos India would benefit in integrating our campuses spread across Roorkee, Saharanpur and Greater Noida.
IIT-Roorkee has decided to implement a combination of the best-in-breed ERP solution that suits all our institute's needs for example we can track a student from admission to being an alumni and track his movement in the future after leaving the institute too. It would help integrate hostel functions and academics of every student. It will also track a faculty member from the application process to post retirement phase. This will ensure a seamless integration of all entities across IIT-Roorkee and its campuses," said Pradipta Banerji, Director, IIT Roorkee.
With SAP Digital Solution being established and fully implemented, IIT-Roorkee will benefit from a common integrated system across different functions and processes leading to the standardization of all processes and systems across the institute.
The all-inclusive solution offers the scope of mapping of assets, their life cycles, data analytics of budgeting and resourceful financial forecasting techniques, augmentation of organizational scalability for future growth plans, data uniformity & integrity across various IIT- Roorkee units like departments, centres, administrative units, finance & accounts, library etc., digitization of assets enabling towards a paperless work culture, assistance with real time decision support mechanism, automation for management controls & approval systems which in turn will improve the efficiency of existing processes with seamless integration of student information across IIT-Roorkee.