Role of SAP on Robi Axiata Limited

Abstract

Today is the era of modern technology. Each and every organization are planning, thinking and implementing new strategies to survive in the competitive market for providing best solution within a short period of time. As such, most of the companies are implementing SAP at their organization to run their financial procurement as well as analysis comfortably. The report is a reflection of role of SAP in Robi Axiata Limited. A supply chain management system works well on a trusted ERP such as SAP, particularly for distributor operations. The biggest improvement can be seen when an organization’s supply chain relies on information being exchanged between the principal and its distributors or different offices in various ways. Item master data and price lists can be pushed to distributors with the SAP integration tool. Subsequently, Crystal Reports and dashboards can be used to provide more intuitive reports across the business based on accurate and timely data. SAP is a foremost Enterprise Information and Management Package which helps Robi Axiata Limited to track and manage sales, production, finance accounting and human resources, in realtime. The main benefit that Robi Axiata Limited gets from this software is assimilation because SAP is designed to allocate any organization to operate diversity of business processes within a single integrated information system. Although Robi Axiata Limited gets various benefits from SAP, several departments have been affected due to execution of this software and Supply Chain Department of Finance Division is most affected one. Different finance functionalities like Financial Planning Processing, Internal Orders Processing, Month end Closing, Value Chain Reporting, Product costing, Cost centre Hierarchy, Collection Process, Profitability Analysis, Planning from Retail Selling Price, etc. have been changed because of the SAP Financial Accounting Module and SAP Financial Controlling Module. Although SAP helps Finance Division of Robi Axiata to improve their collection process, Month end Closing process, monitoring and controlling activities, diminish billing cost and speed up data processing, etc. but it requires high understanding level regarding SAP application and great discipline among the employees of the Robi Axiata Limited.