Apollo Tyres : Raw Material Imports System

A large share of Apollo’s raw material purchase is from the International

market and to track the shipment & its documentation is a big challenge. Apollo
Purchase team wanted to meet this challenge by strengthening the process and
automating it so that all involved parties (eg raw material suppliers, clearing
house agents, Apollo purchase team, manufacturing team at a plant) can share and
exchange information online and thereby ensure smooth material imports. Raw
Material Imports system was conceptualized & implemented to meet the above
challenge. RMI starts from the time purchase order is raised in SAP and goes
till the GRN (goods received at plant) process at plant is completed. It also
includes key sub processes like license management, custom duty computation &
filing, bonded warehouse management, movement of raw material from port to plant
and storing of documents and several work flow such as advance requisition,
custom duty approvals and bill of entry filing at bank / RBI.

The key features of project are: interface with SAP, Domino for fetching and
sending data, web based access, custom duty computation, workflow for accounting
of extra port expenses, bonded ware house management including creation of bond
and ex-bonding documents and license management.