The Sri Lankan unit of global business solutions provider, IFS has recently been awarded with a major contract from owners of Flinth Industrial Park (FIP) to swiftly deploy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for all nine companies operating within the park.
IFS has already deployed its fully-fledged solutions for two companies in the park, Cable Solutions Private Ltd and Flinth Industrial Park (the main company managing the firms in the park) while a third company, AeroSense Private Ltd is expected to go live on October 1, officials said.
“We decided from the outset that we needed a globally-reputed ERP provider for the park to ensure that all the functions process smoothly and that is why we selected IFS. We have also given them a target to complete the implementation of ERP to all the companies in the park by the end of this year, which promise we are confident the IFS team could live up to,” Flinth Industrial Park’s Managing Director Michael Thorburn told reporters at a recent press conference.
He said that while there were only a few global companies that could cover all the functions carried out by FIP with their ERP systems, only IFS from the outset had a strong exposure and expertise in manufacturing and supply chain sector and a fully fledged offering that satisfied the senior management.
“IFS had no competition in that aspect as their compliant ability with the most rigid quality requirements necessary in the airspace industry ideally suited our requirements,” Thornburn explained.
FIP is home to AeroSense Ltd, a company manufacturing sensors for aircrafts across the world, and which needs to adhere to the highest levels of quality. This in turn benefited all the other companies in the park, Thorburn pointed out, since the quality assurance system embedded in the ERP had to be of the highest standard.
Meanwhile, IFS South Asia Vice President Jayatha De Silva explained that Flinth’s requirements in an ERP were challenging from the start but IFS was bold and took it on.
“For the success of any ERP implementation there are four factors that need to fall in place. The first factor of success is that the business solution must match the requirements of the business”.
“In this situation, the ERP we offered covered all the functions required by Flinth Industrial Park, including HR, finance, and quality assurance”.
The second factor was the consultants and experienced personnel that went into the task.
“IFS had the potential and the capacity, with its hugely experienced team of consultants to take on this challenge, work long hours, and get the ERP going well within the prescribed time frame.”
The third factor for a successful implementation was the post-implementation, De Silva explained. “The hand-holding is vital for the entire process to run smoothly, and in a project of this scale and magnitude, this is even more important.
“With this in mind, IFS will have two of its own personnel working with FIP, on-the-ground and at-hand, after the ERP goes live in order to ensure the system functions smoothly and to train any new personnel entering FIP, on the ERP.”
The fourth factor was the customer’s readiness, and Jayantha pointed out that in this respect, FIP were extremely supportive.
“When you want the ERP implemented so fast, you need the customer to set his priorities and let us know what is most important first. We found FIP ready with their guidelines and recommendations and ready to compromise in order to focus on what was most vital”, Jayantha explained.
FIP, which brings a unique industrial park concept to Sri Lanka, is the brain child of Swedish entrepreneur and visionary Rune Flinth. The park is based upon the concept that companies should focus mainly on production, while supporting functions such as finance, IT, legal services, quality control and human resources, are handled by the park itself.
Located in a 10-acrea area in Kadawatha, FIP already has eight export-oriented companies in residence, creating products that are highly technical, state-of-the-art and demanding stringent levels of quality in both hardware and software.
FIP is a subsidiary of the Swedish holding company Swedcord Development AB owned by Rune Flinth, who has been an industrialist in Sri Lanka for over 20 years having founded two major companies, Flintec and Toroid. (AR)
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IFS has already deployed its fully-fledged solutions for two companies in the park, Cable Solutions Private Ltd and Flinth Industrial Park (the main company managing the firms in the park) while a third company, AeroSense Private Ltd is expected to go live on October 1, officials said.
“We decided from the outset that we needed a globally-reputed ERP provider for the park to ensure that all the functions process smoothly and that is why we selected IFS. We have also given them a target to complete the implementation of ERP to all the companies in the park by the end of this year, which promise we are confident the IFS team could live up to,” Flinth Industrial Park’s Managing Director Michael Thorburn told reporters at a recent press conference.
He said that while there were only a few global companies that could cover all the functions carried out by FIP with their ERP systems, only IFS from the outset had a strong exposure and expertise in manufacturing and supply chain sector and a fully fledged offering that satisfied the senior management.
“IFS had no competition in that aspect as their compliant ability with the most rigid quality requirements necessary in the airspace industry ideally suited our requirements,” Thornburn explained.
FIP is home to AeroSense Ltd, a company manufacturing sensors for aircrafts across the world, and which needs to adhere to the highest levels of quality. This in turn benefited all the other companies in the park, Thorburn pointed out, since the quality assurance system embedded in the ERP had to be of the highest standard.
Meanwhile, IFS South Asia Vice President Jayatha De Silva explained that Flinth’s requirements in an ERP were challenging from the start but IFS was bold and took it on.
“For the success of any ERP implementation there are four factors that need to fall in place. The first factor of success is that the business solution must match the requirements of the business”.
“In this situation, the ERP we offered covered all the functions required by Flinth Industrial Park, including HR, finance, and quality assurance”.
The second factor was the consultants and experienced personnel that went into the task.
“IFS had the potential and the capacity, with its hugely experienced team of consultants to take on this challenge, work long hours, and get the ERP going well within the prescribed time frame.”
The third factor for a successful implementation was the post-implementation, De Silva explained. “The hand-holding is vital for the entire process to run smoothly, and in a project of this scale and magnitude, this is even more important.
“With this in mind, IFS will have two of its own personnel working with FIP, on-the-ground and at-hand, after the ERP goes live in order to ensure the system functions smoothly and to train any new personnel entering FIP, on the ERP.”
The fourth factor was the customer’s readiness, and Jayantha pointed out that in this respect, FIP were extremely supportive.
“When you want the ERP implemented so fast, you need the customer to set his priorities and let us know what is most important first. We found FIP ready with their guidelines and recommendations and ready to compromise in order to focus on what was most vital”, Jayantha explained.
FIP, which brings a unique industrial park concept to Sri Lanka, is the brain child of Swedish entrepreneur and visionary Rune Flinth. The park is based upon the concept that companies should focus mainly on production, while supporting functions such as finance, IT, legal services, quality control and human resources, are handled by the park itself.
Located in a 10-acrea area in Kadawatha, FIP already has eight export-oriented companies in residence, creating products that are highly technical, state-of-the-art and demanding stringent levels of quality in both hardware and software.
FIP is a subsidiary of the Swedish holding company Swedcord Development AB owned by Rune Flinth, who has been an industrialist in Sri Lanka for over 20 years having founded two major companies, Flintec and Toroid. (AR)
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