Dialog Telekom became the only telecommunications company in Sri Lanka to implement the worldrenowned SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.
Alan Sedghi, President and CEO, SAP South Asia said that SAP implementation at Dialog was a significant step for SAP India, as it was a crucial win for the telecom segment SAP India confirmed that the Dialog Telekom Implementation was to-date the largest and fastest SAP implementation in Sri Lanka. Dialog is one of the few telecommunications operators in the Asian region to successfully implement the system.
Considered as the premier ERP system in the world, the state of the art mySAP system will integrate, enrich and develop sales and distribution, materials management, project systems, plant maintenance and financial information/controlling at Dialog. The entire project was completed in a record five months, setting a new standard for enterprise wide information systems implementation in the country.
SAP implementation at Dialog will benefit the company’s operations and consumers. SAP is designed to simplify workflows while reducing duplication of activities and lead-time of processes, thereby increasing speed of decision based implementation and the accuracy and relevance of enterprise-wide information. Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, CEO, Dialog said that from a team achievement point of view he was extremely proud of the efficacy with which the SAP project at Dialog was delivered. SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software solutions. Today, more than 26,150 customers in over 120 countries run more than 88,700 installations of SAP software from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize businesses to enterprise-scale suite solutions for global organizations.
