V-LINE EUROPE GmbH is headquartered near Hannover in Germany, offers end-to-end supply chain solutions in 20 different countries primarily in the Middle East, through its Saudi Arabia subsidiary, and via its customer service centres in other GCC countries, the USA, Mexico and Brazil.
V-LINE sourcing and procurement centres in Germany, the USA, China, Japan and Korea offer industrial plants in all its markets an integrated set of services tailored to lowering their total cost of ownership for their foreign maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) spare parts while meeting the highest global standards of supply performance.
V-LINE’s tailor-made portfolio of procurement services facilitates the spare parts flow from order until delivery by managing its complexity using modern IT and allowing for systems integration with suppliers, logistics providers and the receiving customer plants. Over time, V-LINE has developed and maintained long-term relations to blue-chip customers with activities in various sectors in the gulf region, especially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including petrochemicals, power & utilities, minerals & mining and automotive.
V-LINE is been using SAP (ERP System) for the past 10 years and they have tailor made the SAP system in tune with their business requirements. But the real challenge is that, it was a tailor made 10 years back and it is of more rigid system which hampers their current business operations to modify or to accommodate any new or legal requirements.
In the year 2018 Coda and V-LINE entered a partnership in promoting their products and services primarily in Middle east region. Later in the year 2019 V-LINE requested for a SAP support services from Coda to support their current SAP system and also to address all their Business requirements.
Coda’s First SAP Project For V-Line
Coda with the SAP freelancers conducted multiple meetings with their IT team and gave multiple proposals, but things were moving at sedate pace. Later Mr. Naleem and Mr. Rizwan went to Germany in September 2019 and gave a full hope in revamping their entire IT operations and also to reduce the operational cost spent on IT. Based on the proposal the contract was signed between Coda and V-LINE in revamping their IT systems and operations.
In October 2019 a very lean team is formed to initiate the SAP activities and to conduct the Business meetings with V-LINE. By end of November 2019 Mr.Murugappan travelled to Germany for four weeks to study their SAP system in detail and to give a proposal to enhance their SAP system.
Initially in the first week the basic assessment of their current SAP system was analysed and proposed a high-level plan in enhancing their current system and to upgrade the system to the latest package and addressing all their Business challenges to the top-level management. Based on their concurrence the next two weeks was taken for the detail study of the SAP system, gathering their Business operations, their challenges in the current system and their future requirements.
With the gathered information a detailed proposal was submitted for the year 2020 and 2021 with the team size requirements and their individual deliverables. In the Last week the detailed proposal was presented and agreed between two entities.
Based on the agreement signed between V-LINE and Coda the first SAP Project kicked off at Coda with totally 9 SAP consultants. In that one consultant is debuted totally at onsite to coordinate between the V-LINE and Coda Offshore team. The balance 8 consultants (3 Functional and 5 technical) are debuted at offshore. Formally this Project kicked off on 6th Jan 2020 and slowly the team ramped up to full strength by end of Jan 2020.
