To introduce and handle its SAP ERP or enterprise resource planning, AngloGold Ashanti, the gold mining firm has captured a 5-year agreement with Fujitsu. Over to a single situation of SAP in a project that is being organized by Accenture, the contract is part of its broader OneERP plan to shift from more or less 30 various ERP systems all over the globe.
In the previous years, AngloGold has succeeded as the value of gold has increased, apart from that the company has evolved that follows a number of acquisitions around the world. The firm is a part of the Anglo American mining conglomerate and since 2009, the firm has outlined its OneERP strategy.
It also originated the Project One, it is a business process improvement project planned to accommodate several business processes all over the company. Moreover, this had been restrained by most of the various ERP systems that AngloGold presently operates. AngloGold Ashanti CIO Andrew Crocker, staff store major corporate data on Microsoft Access spreadsheets and databases says that in some regions.
Consequently, the project will also enhance the data communications to several of the remote mining sites that the firm manages, specifically in South America and Africa. However, the firm settled to solidify on SAP considering the range of the applications it provides, SAP was only operating in the firm’s Australian operations just before the turn out.
The HR modules organization management, talent management, payroll and personnel administration together with the materials management, business intelligence, maintenance and finance are included in the modules being performed. Before being rolled out in phases all over the firm’s various sites from February 2013, the Fujitsu-hosted SAP ERP will be proven from August to December. Furthermore, by the second quarter of 2014, the project is anticipated to be accomplished, however the value of the agreement was not yet revealed.
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