HPE 679114-B21 Product Data Sheet

Case study

PT Kirana Megatara improves

eciency with ERP system

HP servers, storage and networking handle
business data from 15 factories

Industry

Manufacturing

Objective

Increase the quality and timeliness of business

information, to drive eciencies and improve

decision-making

Approach

Reviewed solutions from four major IT vendors

IT matters

• Simplied support due to entire solution being

from a single vendor

• Consolidated business data from 15 sites to one
ERP system at head oce

• Overhead of local standalone PCs removed from

mission critical system

Business matters

• Improved management, control and reporting,
with up to date information at all times

• Boosted business eciency due to accurate,
timely data and dashboard reporting

• Cut inventory from two months to one month

• Improved cash ow due to better monitoring

and control

• Increased customer satisfaction

• Accelerated ability to resolve manufacturing
problems, due to increased visibility

“Now that we can monitor and control factory operations

much better, we have improved company performance
in various areas, for example: inventory turnover,
cash ow and increased customer satisfaction.”

– Hartono Wijaya, IT division head, PT Kirana Megatara

Reliable, easy to manage system

Rubber producer PT Kirana Megatara wanted to replace
legacy systems with SAP ERP software to help manage its
business more eectively. HP supplied an entire solution

including servers, networking, storage, software and services.
This has enabled PT Kirana Megatara to improve the accuracy
of business data, to report centrally on 15 sites, and to cut its

inventory and improve cash ow.

Case study | PT Kirana Megatara

Challenge

ERP solution

PT Kirana Megatara is a major producer of
rubber, with a total capacity of 720,000
tonnes per year from its 15 factories across
Indonesia. Most of this production is exported
to tyre manufacturers around the world.

The company gathers a detailed set of

information from each of these factories

including raw material purchases,
production gures, and nished goods data.

Until recently, this data was then transferred
to legacy systems for review at the head

oce on an operations dashboard, with much

of the information contained in Microsoft®
Excel spreadsheets.

“We had no VPN connections from the

factories to head oce, and the information

was always a day late and it comes in
summary”, says Hartono Wijaya, IT division

head at PT Kirana Megatara. “We were also
having problems with the accuracy of data
and the process for transferring it, and if

something went wrong, it could result in

incorrect decisions at head oce.”

To solve these problems, PT Kirana Megatara
decided to implement an Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) system, which would help it to
manage its business and to handle growth.

Having decided to use SAP software for its

ERP, PT Kirana Megatara set out to nd the
best hardware platform for the system.

This would need to include servers,
storage and networking.

Solution

Complete system

PT Kirana Megatara contacted four suppliers,
and reviewed their proposals against
multiple criteria, including technology
direction, simplicity, scalability, reliability,
future expansion and pricing. Following this
review, they selected a solution from HP.

“Based on these criteria, HP was the system

that best met our requirements,” says Wijaya.

“The main factors were HP’s technology

features, and its simplicity of conguration.
HP’s people are experienced, and gave

us advice to ensure we chose the

right products.”

The system is deployed at PT Kirana
Megatara’s head oce in Jakarta, Indonesia.

It consists of a broad range of HP hardware,

including an HP BladeSystem c7000

Enclosure with ProLiant Server Blades,

and HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) P6000
Storage. Networking is handled by various
HP switches, an HP MSR20 router,
an HP MSM720 wireless controller and
HP MSM410 access points.

Single vendor
A key factor in PT Kirana Megatara’s decision
to choose HP was that they wanted to

purchase the complete system from one

vendor, including storage, networking,
servers and services – something only

HP could oer.

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