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

Jawed: No moustache

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 - The Chef

Sara’s Playschool had a Saturday Activity called Pappa Banao Dadi Ki Recipe. Father and Kid had to participate in this activity without any help from Mummy. We had to prepare a healthy and non-fried dish within 30 minutes. I and Sara made Pineapple Shahi Tukda and Fruit Salad. It was a runaway success with not even a small piece left afterwards.

Sara and Jawed Ready to start !

We wore paper aprons which were provided by the organisers. The getup included a small Chef Headgear as well.

Sara and Jawed Ahmed busy in dressing the Shahi Tukda

We had taken the ingredients from home. The moment the event started, we laid them out on the table and started setting up the plate.

Pineapple Shahi Tukda and Fruit Salad

This is what the dish looked like after it was ready.


 The dish was as tasty as it looks !

Yummy Pineapple Shahi Tukda prepared by Jawed Ahmed and Sara Ahmed of Poddar Happy Kids, Parel, Mumbai

Jawed Ahmed and Sara Ahmed awarded the participation certificate

We won a participation certificate as well !

Jawed - August 2012

Sara Ahmed

Sara Ahmed Posing for the Camera !

Jawed At Agra Fort

IRMA PRM 20 Get Together at Mumbai

Institute of Rural Management Anand

PRM 20 Get together at Mumbai in April 2012

Recently, we organised a get together of the Alumni of the 20th Batch (PRM-20) of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) at Mumbai.  The idea of a get together got started accidentally on email and then we took it forward and could finally make everyone come on Saturday, 7th April 2012.

Jawed Ahmed Devendra Sharma Mohit Bahuguna Rajneesh Gaur Kolluru Harikumar PRM 20 Students of IRMA

The meeting was attended by the following alumni of IRMA,  Devendra Sharma, Jawed Ahmed, Kolluru Hari Kumar, Mohit Bahuguna, Rajneesh Gaur. We met at a place called Pritam Dhaaba in Dadar East. We assembled at 6 in the evening and were there till around half past nine. It was good reliving the glorious days of the past.

PRM 20 IRMA Anand Get Together at Mumbai Kolluru Harikumar, Rajneesh Gaur, Mohit Bahuguna

Mohit Bahuguna is currently working with Bajaj Allianz. Kolluru Harikumar works for Essar Steel.

Institute of Rural Management Anand, PRM 20 Get Together

Devendra Sharma, PRM 20, IRMA Alumni, currently working with HSBC, Mumbai(April 2012)

20th Batch IRMA Alumni Jawed(Kancor Group) and Kolluru Hari kumar(Essar Steel)

IRMA Alumni Mohit Bahuguna (Bajaj Allianz) and Rajneesh Gaur ( HSBC)

The evening came to an end at 9:30 PM. But by that time we had made beginning and we really look forward to getting together again. We eagerly wait for the next alumni meeting of PRM-20 (20th Batch) of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)