Infosys helps Air Liquide in SAP implementation

BANGALORE, INDIA: Indian IT giant Infosys Technologies today said that it has helped Air Liquide, a major player in the field of gases for industry, health and the environment, in the successful completion of its European process harmonization and SAP implementation program for ALBV, its subsidiary in The Netherlands.

The deployment was completed in seven months, making it one of the fastest implementations at any Air Liquide subsidiary, Infosys said in a press release. Air Liquide had taken 18 months in many previous implementations.

Infosys said ALBV, the company’s Dutch subsidiary, wanted an accelerated plan to retire legacy applications to support its goals to streamline its operations and avoid prohibitive maintenance costs. In fact, many of Air Liquide’s European offices had already implemented the company’s OPERA solutions, consisting of SAP ECC 5.0 and SAP SRM 5.0.

Infosys said it studied data from over 30 custom built applications across various domains and combined these into one integrated system and the engagement was completed with a savings on the original budgeted cost.

“By working with Infosys we’ve been able to develop a standardized business process model and reap the benefits of having a common IT landscape for Air Liquide in Europe,” said Alain de La Rocheterie, CIO Europe. “We’re now able to close our books significantly faster than before.”

Infosys said Air Liquide selected Infosys because of its proven capabilities in carrying out large scale Business Transformation programs for manufacturers worldwide and its preferred partner status with SAP.

“The completion schedule seemed difficult but our experience with more than 100 manufacturers globally and the unique domain knowledge of the processes helped us complete the project in half the time as previous deployments.” said Nitesh Bansal, associate vice president, Process Manufacturing-Europe, Infosys Technologies. “We look forward to strengthening our partnership with Air Liquide in the months ahead.”