By Kirsten Wade
Specialist SAP consulting firm Oxygen Business Solutions has won a tender to upgrade Toyota Australia’s core SAP operating systems.
The project involves a technical improvement and convergence of Toyota’s SAP ERP4.7 and HR ECC5.0 systems to a newly integrated ECC6 platform. It will also include an upgrade from SAP ESS/MSS Portal to EP7.3 and a migration of SAP GRC5.3 Governance and Risk Management processes to GRC10.
Stuart Dickinson, Oxygen CEO, said the tender was a significant win for the company.
“We saw off several larger system integrators to win this work,” he said. “Our aim will be to demonstrate our expertise and build an ongoing relationship with Toyota based on trust and mutual growth.”
James Scott, Toyota CIO, said the project comes at an important time for Toyota, with SAP maintenance for its existing SAP system due to expire in 2013.
“We are tackling the technical upgrade now to reduce risk to the business,” he said. “We want to move away from our customised transactions and create a fully supported, modern platform that allows us to more easily undertake business improvement initiatives in the future.”
