Freight Company Number One Digitalizes Freight Car Repairs

Freight Company Number One (PGK) implemented control over its salvage shop and ongoing uncoupling repairs based on SAP solutions. The main contractor for the large-scale digital transformation was SAP CIS.

“PGK is undergoing global digital transformation, the goal of which is to increase the efficiency of key business processes, to make them faster and more convenient for all participants. Together with the SAP team, we have not just built a modern management system, but created a digital core that will become the basis for the rapid implementation of advanced analytics and machine learning for key business processes. The new functionality will allow us to strengthen control over the repair of freight cars and to integrate work with accompanying documentation into a single system. We would like to thank our colleagues from the ITPS Group of Companies, who joined the project team at the stage of implementing the developed solutions, for their high professionalism in the implementation of the assigned tasks,” said Oleg Komonyuk, Project Manager at PGK. 

Digitalized freight car repairs are part of a new unified accounting system that allows improved control of repair costs, and in future to introduce and use innovative technologies and solutions such as a unified register of freight cars and a freight car passport with optimization of related processes.

“In current conditions the digital core based on SAP S/4HANA allows PGK to respond quickly to changing business conditions, to rebuild business processes, and to reduce operational risks and costs. This is a completely new level of management and service, which is necessary in order to implement the company’s strategy and increase its efficiency and competitiveness in the market,” said Andrey Sharak, Director for Consulting and Support at SAP CIS.

The ITPS specialists joined the project during the implementation stage.

“This project implemented at PGK can serve as a good example for the entire transport industry. Thanks to the automation of management processes for uncoupling repairs, transport companies will be able to control this functionality more closely, integrate it into a single information system, and lay the basis for the further development of their business using modern digital tools. We are grateful to our colleagues for their valuable input. It was fascinating to work with such a huge number of users from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg,” stated Dmitri Fedorochev, Director for Implementation and Development of ITPS Corporate Information Systems.