L&T's Electrical and Electronics Division (L&T-EBG) is the first company in India to announce the successful 'Go-live' of their mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management (mySAP SEM) implementation. This initiative is a significant step towards strengthening the company's business intelligence and value-based management.

Business Information Warehouse (mySAP BW) too has gone live together with mySAP-SEM. mySAP BW serves as the cornerstone of business performance management and analytical application. This also forms a platform/central hub for implementing various other components of mySAP.com. SEM is installed on top of BW, which is fed by data from ERP (SAP R/3) and other information systems.

mySAP SEM is a suite of applications to address business intelligence needs, covering areas like corporate performance monitoring (CPM) and strategic management through key performance indicators (KPIs), business planning, etc. This implementation will not only enable the strategic plans to percolate down the line through deployment of 'Balanced Scorecard' (BSC) but also help the management to monitor the performance at all levels through the 'Management Cockpit'.

The 'Management Cockpit' has four walls with each wall focusing on different business perspectives. A wall has up to six 'Logical View' elements with each View consisting up to six Frames. A Frame serves to visualise individual KPIs using various types of graphics.

The 'Balanced Scorecard' comprises Objectives, Measures and Initiatives organised in four perspectives, viz., Financial, Customer, Internal Business Process and Learning & Growth perspective as per 'Kaplan & Norton Model'. Both these solutions are web enabled to provide key information to top management.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited was the implementation partner for the mySAP SEM & mySAP BW solution.

Mr. R. N. Mukhija, Member of the Board and Sr. Vice President (Operations) of L&T, said, "L&T has always been a quick adapter of fast changing, globally available technology which helps our business processes improve. Like, on this occasion, we have often been the first to implement the latest technology."

"With the 'Management Cockpit', key performance indicators (KPIs) will be easily presented and better analyzed. The performance monitoring methodology at L&T-EBG consists of an optimal blend of 'Balanced Scorecard', value based management and policy deployment technique (X-Matrix)."