HCL AXON offers crew management soln

JERSEY CITY, NJ: HCL AXON, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, on Tuesday announced that it has worked closely with CN to deliver the launch of iCREW, the crew management solution for SAP transportation customers who have complex workforce management requirements.

iCREW is intended to become crew management solution, helping transportation companies plan, schedule and assign employees, manage job boards and rotations, job bulletins, bids and awards, and provide rule processing for end-of-shift reporting, claims validation, time-to-gross calculations and labor distribution, said a press release.

The new product leverages the latest UI technologies to provide a visual interface that supplies the crew scheduler with the comprehensive information required to complete the job in a highly intuitive manner.

It has been developed on the SAP NetWeaver platform, ensuring that the solution is fully integrated into SAP’s best-practice business processes, used by a majority of Class 1 North American railroads.

“iCREW represents an innovative approach to solving a complex business problem. Leveraging SAP’s service-oriented architecture has accelerated the delivery of a highly complex, mission critical system that provides transportation companies with the real-time decision support to manage complex crew operations and optimize productivity,” said Steve Cardell, president of HCL AXON.

Keith Creel, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of CN, said, “The initial release of iCREW is designed to provide the railway with a comprehensive solution that delivers real-time decision support to our operations group. iCREW creates an integrated crew management solution that builds on CN’s investments in its SAP solution platform and is engineered to generate significant savings and improved efficiencies in train operations.”