Jawed Ahmed at Kancor Ingredients Limited, Cochin

Md. Jawed Ahmed, Group IT Head for Kancor Ingredients, Cochin

Md. Jawed Ahmed, Group IT Head for Kancor Ingredients, Cochin

I have been stationed here for the past few months for SAP Implementation project at Kancor Ingredients.

Kancor Ingredients goes live on SAP ERP

SAP Implementation completed at Kancor Ingredients

End user Training for SAP at Kancor Ingredients

Kancor Ingredients is one of India's largest manufacturer and exporter of speciality extracts. More details about Kancor Ingredients can be had at www.kancor.in

Kancor Ingredients had been wanting to implement SAP in the entire organisation but somehow it could not start. After a lot of preparations, finally the SAP implementation was formally kicked off on 21st December 2012.

Like any other Large Scale Initiative (LSI), ERP implementation is a  complex and challenging exercise for

SAP Screen Kancor 

an organisation. More so at Kancor because Kancor Ingredients is an established organisation which has been operating for around 40 years. All SAP implementations requires some amount of process re-engineering. Changing the processes in a mature organisation like Kancor is difficult. One has to deal with the accumulated wisdom of so many years and convince the Process Owners of the new best practices which SAP advocates. We can't be successfull in changing the process all the time so at some places SAP had to be configured to reflect the ongoing business process.  It took us around 4 months and the IT team along with the implementing partner was able to deliver the system ready for transactions on time. Kancor Ingredients went live on 3rd April 2013 on SAP.  The SAP implementation project at Kancor Ingredients was completed on time and as promised in the Project Kick-off meeting. Though Kancor  have used a lot of customised transactions, they have not made any changes to the standard flow as suggested by SAP. The customisation has been done to include a few more fields using screen exits in some of the data entry screens like COR1, CO6RN etc.

Kancor Ingredients Goes Live on SAP ERP

The SAP implementation at Kancor Ingredients was started in mid December 2012 and the project successfully went live on 3rd April 2013. The core team consisted of members from Production dept, Quality Dept, Finance & Accounts dept. All businesses of Kancor Ingredients at Angamally in Cochin and in Bareilly are on SAP today.

SAP Coreteam meeting at Kancor Ingredients

Md. Jawed Ahmed

[Jawed Ahmed heads the IT function at the Group level for Kancor Ingredients and is based out of the corporate office in Mumbai]

Kancor Ingredients goes live on SAP

Kancor Ingredients went live on SAP on 3rd April 2013. The vision of MD, Mr. Sanjaya Mariwala to have a single business system for the entire operations has finally borne fruit. Kancor has moved from legacy system to SAP.

Mr. Sanjaya Mariwala, Managing Director, Mr. Geemon Korah CEO  at the SAP Go-Live Event of Kancor Ingredients on 3rd April 2013

PC Quest Awards for Kancor Ingredients Limited

Kancor Ingredients wins the award for the best IT Implementation in the SME Category - 2012

Kancor Ingredients wins the PC Quest Award for Best IT Implementation

The Exports Benefits Management System(EBMS), developed at Kancor Ingredients has been awarded for the best IT Implementation in the SME Category in the PC Quest Awards for 2012.

The EBMS has been developed using SAP Platform and it consists of multiple Z-Reports and Dialogs. Kancor Ingredients has been awarded for innovative application of technology as well as for the high and clearly visible benefits arising out of the Exports Benefits Management System.

Jawed Ahmed (Group IT Head) with KC Babu and Rajesh MP

Internal IT department at Kancor Ingredients developed the EBMS in around 4-5 months of development time. Initial SAP Development took around 3 months and we started using it. Subsequently the system was enhanced as we went along.

There has been a clearly identified, recognised and universally accepted financial benefit arising out of the implementation of the Exports Benefits Management System. The high quality of the System Documentation and the timely tracking of the license dates has resulted in the reduction of the claim settlement time from 6-9 months earlier to 2-3 months now. 6 months of claims are approximately equal to INR 12 crores.

PC Quest Award
Kancor

The IT department at Kancor Ingredients has developed the EBMS taking into account the specific requirements of the Licensing Regime for Spices Industry. The solution fits the business scenario perfectly and there have been quite a few enquiries from similar companies who use SAP in the spices industry and are tracking licenses. By using this system, the manual effort is reduced significantly and overall execution efficiency increases.

In the Industry-specific segment of Spices, Kancor Ingredients is one of the foremost IT Enabled organisations. In fact Kancor is the first spice company to implement SAP in Kerala.  

Chhota Kashmir

I had been to this tourist place recently. These two photographs were clicked there.

Jawed Ahmed at Chhota Kashmir

Md.Jawed Ahmed at Chhota Kashmir

Jawed - August 2012