1. B C Jindal Group streamlines Overview
operations and cuts costs with Challenge
SAP and IBM B C Jindal Group wanted to be
able to control operations, cut
The B C Jindal Group of companies out the same core applications for each costs and start new ventures
is one of the leading business new business activity. to seize business opportunities
conglomerates in India. Founded as in the growing Indian economy.
a manufacturer of steel pipes and Mr. R D Malav, Vice President of The company looked for a
fittings, the group has diversified into Information Technology, explains, commercially cost-effective way
the manufacture of cold rolled strips “During preparation for the Year 2000 to roll out business solutions
and galvanized sheet steel, with new cutover, we looked at our ERP solution rapidly and easily.
businesses in polyester, metalized and choices and the infrastructure options.
biaxial films, and photographic goods. SAP and IBM both offered a clear Solution
roadmap for a stable landscape. To meet these objectives,
The newest corporate venture is B C Jindal standardized its SAP
Jindal India Thermal Power Limited “Standardizing our environment would application infrastructure on
(JITPL), serving the huge demand for enable us to handle diversification as IBM technologies, including IBM
electricity in the rapidly expanding we added new business activities, and Power Systems, IBM System
Indian economy. JITPL is already in the roll out new SAP solutions for ventures Storage, IBM Tivoli and IBM
process of setting up 1,800 MW from like JITPL quickly and cost-effectively.” Systems Director.
its first plant, and this new company
employs some 4,000 people. Moving to the latest IBM Key benefits
technologies Virtualization and consolidation
B C Jindal Group has been running Starting with POWER3 processor- techniques help B C Jindal
SAP applications for some years, based servers, B C Jindal has run a to save around 50 percent of
with IBM Power servers selected as continuous upgrade and migration predicted capital expenditure, and
its strategic platform. To make new program for several years. The most automation and standardization
ventures such as JITPL commercially recent change was deployment of a help save the cost of two full-time
possible, the group chose to POWER7 processor-based IBM Power employee equivalents.
standardize its SAP landscape and roll 750 Express server.
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2. “We have been able to upgrade the B C
Jindal infrastructure in exact step with
the business demands,” says Mr. Malav. “The beauty of the IBM
Power infrastructure
“We still have some standalone is that it has the
Business Challenge
applications on the original servers scalability to grow
where there is no reason to change, with us.”
and for other systems we deploy
B C Jindal Group wanted to be able the latest processors and full Mr. R D Malav
to control operations, cut costs and virtualization. The beauty of the IBM Vice President of Information
start new business ventures to meet Power infrastructure is that it has the Technology, B C Jindal India
the needs of the rapidly growing scalability to grow with us.”
Indian economy.
B C Jindal Group deployed SAP ERP,
With a mix of SAP ERP, SAP SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse
NetWeaver Business Warehouse, and SAP BusinessObjects applications, SAP solutions on IBM Power Systems
SAP BusinessObjects, Lotus its own customer relationship servers running AIX is very low. For
Domino and self-developed CRM management solution, Lotus Domino example, operating system updates
and document management and a document management do not require system downtime,
applications, the company needed application on the Power 750 Express and we do not need to manage anti-
to find a commercially cost- server. virus upgrades and restarts. Since
effective way to roll out business standardizing on the POWER platform,
solutions across a diverse group of The server is divided into seven we have only one administrator for the
companies. logical partitions (LPARs) to provide entire enterprise, and we have saved
separate virtual servers for each main one full-time employee equivalent.
solution area, accessing shared Oracle
databases hosted on IBM System “Additionally, by using LPARs to
Storage DS4700, DS3950 and DS4300 provide virtual servers for our key SAP
disk arrays. production and other applications,
we have avoided the cost of new
“By consolidating to the Power 750 standalone servers. By our estimates,
Express server, B C Jindal is achieving when compared with a non-virtualized
near-100 percent uptime for its core environment, we have saved around
business applications,” says Mr. Malav. 50 percent of our predicted capital
“The management cost of running expenditure.”
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3. JINDAL
Supporting key business “This data can be examined using SAP
processes BusinessObjects for critical customer
With the core SAP solution suite and business management information.
deployed on a single Power 750 For example, we look at the margin
server, B C Jindal Group is able to take per roll, and the cost impact of shorter
immediate advantage of integrated data and longer production runs. We can
Solution
and analysis both centrally and for all balance the manufacture of different
the operating divisions. film specifications, which means
uninterrupted production, against the B C Jindal standardized its SAP
“We use SAP ERP to control our customer order book and delivery solution infrastructure on the IBM
activities and capture our transactions, commitments. Power platform.
and this data is also transferred
and stored in the SAP NetWeaver “It is like fitting together an immensely The most recent deployment is an
Business Warehouse” says Mr. Malav complex jigsaw, where we aim to IBM Power 750 Express server with
“Using SAP BusinessObjects, we can maximize profitability and minimize POWER7 processors, supporting
interrogate SAP NetWeaver BW for wastage. Using SAP BusinessObjects seven virtual servers to run multiple
sales, production and inventory data to to deliver accurate data, the IBM Power core business applications.
provide accurate business forecasting platform provides the stable, high-
and planning. performance infrastructure to make it The company switched from manual
possible.” backup processes to IBM Tivoli
“For example, the B C Jindal Group’s Storage Manager, with IBM System
flagship company Jindal Poly Films Managing systems and data Storage DS4700, DS3950 and
is one of the world’s largest single effectively DS4300 disk arrays and IBM System
location producers of flexible polyester More than a terabyte of production data Storage TS3494 tape library.
packaging. We have presence in 95 is stored on the DS4700 storage device,
percent of world markets through our which has a total potential capacity of B C Jindal deployed IBM Systems
distribution network in 40 countries. 7 TB. Annual production data growth Director to manage both IBM and
Every day we manufacture more than is some 100 GB, multiplied by replicas non-IBM servers.
4,000 film rolls, of varying thicknesses, for development, test and quality
length, roll width and transparency. assurance.
Each roll has some 20 different
technical specifications, captured by B C Jindal uses IBM Tivoli Storage
SAP applications during the production Manager to run automated backup
process. In total, we create half a million routines during periods of low
new records a day. workload, transferring data direct to
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4. an IBM System Storage TS3494 tape
library.
“By our estimates,
“In the past, manual data backup
when compared with
occupied four people, who would start,
a non-virtualized
monitor and check the success of
environment, we
Key Solution Components
each backup. Tivoli Storage Manager
have saved around
manages automated data backup for
50 percent of our
Industry
around 30 servers of various kinds, and
predicted capital
Manufacturing, Energy
we have saved at least one full-time
expenditure.””
Applications employee equivalent,” says Mr. Malav.
Mr. R D Malav
SAP ERP including financials,
®
Vice President of Information
controlling, materials management, “Tivoli makes data backup part of
Technology, B C Jindal India
warehouse management, sales business-as-usual, and we achieve
and distribution; SAP NetWeaver® data compression ratios of better than
Business Warehouse; SAP 3:1, saving us more than 66 percent of
BusinessObjects; IBM® Lotus® tape capacity. the administrator simply logs in to a
Domino . ®
control panel and considers if manual
“With Tivoli, backup speed has action is needed. These are both
Hardware improved too, requiring a shorter offline excellent pieces of system automation
IBM Power® 750 Express with window. In the past, a full backup would software that help us reduce costs and
POWER7 processors, IBM System
®
take around five hours, which with increase efficiency.”
Storage® DS4700 and DS3400 Tivoli we have reduced to less than
two-and-a-half hours. This allows us to Supporting efficient operations
Software keep production systems running for and business growth
IBM AIX , IBM Tivoli Storage
® ®
longer, and avoids the need to invest in By standardizing its infrastructure to
Manager, IBM Systems Director, additional processing capacity.” SAP solutions on IBM Power servers,
Oracle IBM storage and Tivoli software, B C
B C Jindal uses IBM Systems Director Jindal Group has made deep business
to manage both the IBM and other analysis commercially effective for all its
vendors’ systems, with automated operating companies with the minimum
alerts delivered directly to IBM for of administrative effort.
potential hardware or software faults.
“By selecting a single application suite
“For both Tivoli and Systems Director, and technology platform, the central IT
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5. “SAP solutions and
IBM infrastructure
contributes to direct
business cost savings,
and enables B C Business Benefits
Jindal to expand into
new markets rapidly • Near 100 percent uptime for core
and cost-effectively.” business applications on the IBM
Power 750 server
Mr. R D Malav
• Reduced administration workload
Vice President of Information
Technology, B C Jindal India that saves one full-time employee
equivalent
• Saved around 50 percent of
predicted capital expenditure
team is able to service all the business
thanks to virtualized servers for
units,” says Mr. Malav. “For example,
key SAP production and other
for JITPL we have been able to create
applications
a standardized SAP landscape on the
Power 750 Express server, and provide
• Increased user productivity through
a complete business management
automated data backup across
solution for an energy business that
around 30 servers
aims for an installed capacity of 4,440
MW within just three years.
• Savings of more than 60 percent of
tape capacity thanks to advanced
Mr. Malav concludes, “SAP solutions
data compression
and IBM infrastructure contribute to
direct business cost savings, and
enables B C Jindal to expand into new
markets rapidly and cost-effectively.”
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