LUKOIL
After acquiring the large oil field LUKOIL Overseas had to optimize the process of material demand planning by the company business units for maintenance and repair activities as well as planning of material procurement for non-core activities. By implementing a MRP module the company wanted to optimize and increase the quality of material demand planning processes to improve the service of the company divisions, thus ensuring that materials used for equipment maintenance and repair are always available.
Functionality of SAP MM-MRP enabled the company to achieve the following goals:
Achieving these goals required optimization/restructuring of the following business processes:
The project was implemented in one step entailing the introduction of material demand functionality within a short space of time (from September to December 2012).
System users no longer need to manually create material requisitions. The system generates purchase orders automatically by analyzing requirements and available stocks. In addition, the project brought about the following results:
Scheduling of procurement dates was implemented.