The Project Council and the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection have granted a portion of 2006/2007 National Investment Plan’s funds to the Mihajlo Pupin Institute to acquire and implement the mySAP ERP enterprise software solutions. Since this capital project requires considerable computer and network capacities, the Institute has also been allocated the resources to complete its DATA Center by purchasing a high-reliability, 4 TB storage, failsafe Cluster server providing uninterruptible 24-hour operation and high-reliability and high-availability Cisco network equipment, with VPN connectivity and global system protection and TREND Micro antivirus and monitoring software.
Institute’s Computer Engineering’s team operationalizes successively DATA Center and network segments. A Caterpillar UPS providing the DATA Center with 30 kVA uninterruptible power supply (8-hour autonomy of operation) was delivered in late May.
A team consisting of the Institute’s experts and S&T Company’s consultants was formed in May this year to implement the mySAP business environment. The following stages have been completed so far:
1. mySAP teaching programming environment has been installed and work on the following modules has been started:
- FI (Financial Accounting)
- CO (Controlling)
- MM (Materials Management )
- SD (Sales&Distribution)
- HR (Human Resource)
2. Project leaders have been appointed, workteams formed, and initial training of team members to work with SAP modules has been completed over the last two months. Project scoping has been specified.
3. SAP-Solution Manager, a methodological support tool providing more efficient implementation of SAP solutions, has been installed and configured.
4. Detailed design of SAP implementation project is currently in progress. Since some additional business functions that must be included in software support have been identified during project scoping, it has been agreed to expand the project scope by the following programs: business trip processing submodules and PS (Project System) module to be funded by the Institute.