INTRODUCTION
Governments around the world need to provide their citizens with affordable, efficient and transparent public services, inclusive growth opportunities, comprehensive national security and defense systems, and effective disaster management. The misunderstood requirements, long and complex development cycles and need for an army of high skilled developers are the major contributors for failures.
Various research agencies put out figures showing that over 60% of her software offers users less than 50% of the benefits she does. These issues are efficiently addressed with Axpert™, a digital software platform with native cloud capabilities.
Axpert™ is a software platform that enables you to build applications for billing, order management, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chain management, master data management, financial accounting, project management, and more. You can choose to develop several business processes in Axpert™ and interact with your existing software applications.
ABOUT BMRCL
Bangalore Metro, christened as “Namma Metro”, not only adds to the beauty of Bangalore city skyline, but more importantly provides a safe, quick, reliable and comfortable public transport system. Besides this, Namma Metro is a major environment friendly addition to the Bangalore City as it significantly contributes to the reduction of carbon emissions.
Metro services have been in operation on 69.66 KM.
(a) East-West corridor of 39.34 km: 13.71 km from Krishnarajapura to Whitefield (Kadugodi) Metro Station AND 25.63 km starting from Baiyappanahalli in the East and terminating at Kengeri Terminal in the West
(b) North-South corridor of 30.32 km commencing at Nagasandra in the North and terminating at Silk Institute in the South.
This is the First Metro rail project in India commissioned with 750V DC Third Rail Traction on Standard Gauge.
THE CHALLENGE
Globally available practices and processes are hard to adopt in Indian conditions. In the Same time ERP must also provide functional scope, flexibility, and maintainability equal or better than international brands offer.
When preparing to choose the right solution, BMRCL also applies strict standards chosen because they has been betting for a long time. A bad choice would be affects the construction process of the railway system, let alone the operation preparation. The company talked to international suppliers, analyzed their offers and make comparisons. In the end, ORBITNEXT just succeeded. However, not without demonstrate that the source code of the Axpert application can be decommissioned and completely rebuilt on a different development platform, just to remove the dependency on seller. They then put Axpert through a rigorous safety review process.
Solutions
BMRCL wanted to consolidate all operations into a single system with limited manual processes. This was one of the main goals of Axpert ERP’s decision to consolidate all operations into a single system with limited manual processes.
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CONTROL OPERATIONS AT STATIONS
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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
- Digitized contracts
- Manage bank guarantees
- Running bill accounting
- Final bill accounting
- Manage advances
- Verify payments against terms of the contract
- Customizable approval flow
- Multi-currency payment options
- Automatic posting to financial accounting
- TOM Operations
- TVM Operations
- Cash Management
- Exit gate Tokens
- Inventory Control
- Tickets
- Cards
- Tokens
- Manage Defective tokens
- Managing Non Cash Transactions
- Online Card Purchase & Top Up
- General Ledger
- Multi-Currency
- Financial Statements as per Schedule VI of the companies Act
- Taxation
- BRS
- All Statutory Reposts
- Loan Ledgers
- Auto Posting of Vouchers For
- Contractors bills and advantages
- Purchases
- Payroll
- Property Management System
- Investments
- Automatic RTGS and NEFT Payments
BENEFITS
Contracts are maintained in the system, including digital copies of documents. Advance payments, stage-billing and settlements are driven by contract terms, with no need for manual verification. Multi-currency support and Contract/Supplier- specific workflows were needed. Various back guarantees related to contracts were to be recorded and tracked. Accounting was to be automated. Several service contracts and rate contracts need to be administered.
Third-party ticketing system data was to be synchronized with the ERP, with automated update of books. Cash deposits from counters were to be recorded and tallied. Gate token stocks, sales and scrapping (defectives) were to be managed by the ERP. Support for online top-up of smartcard tickets was needed.
Automated invoicing, ability to edit invoices and charging of interests and penalties. Purchases & Inventory Management Management of DLP stocks, tools & consumables; Procurement of equipment.
THE ADVANTAGES FOR BMRCL
BMRCL saved a lot of money compared to any packaged software alternative, which would need expensive customisation. Coding platforms would not have given it the kind of agility and flexibility that Axperttm offer.
By using Axperttm (LOWCODE, NOCODE), OrbitNext gave BMRCL the option to extend the ERP horizontally, with new features & functionality, or vertically, with deeper features. BMRCL could choose to build only as much as it wanted, when it wanted – instead of starting with a heavy application with a number of unwanted features. Users got exactly what they wanted.