On July 10, IBA successfully put into commercial operation the subsystem Equipment Maintenance (EM) at the Locomotive Depot of the Minsk branch of the Belarusian Railway. Being a part of the Unified Corporate Integrated System of Finance and Resource Management the subsystem has been implemented more than one year. This SAP ERP-based project received the name EM First Stage (EM 1).

It is planned that the EM subsystem will cover all repair types at all series of locomotives and will become a standard solution to be replicated in other departments of the Belarusian Railway.

Within the project, IBA automated the following business processes of the Minsk Locomotive Depot:

• EM reference data
• EM planning
• EM implementation.

In addition, IBA plans further deployment of the EM subsystem at the Belarusian Railway:

• Installation of a facility for approval operations
• Setting electronic certification for the locomotive major units
• Using Chancellor to approve outgoing forms using electronic digital signature
• Expansion of functionality to cover different types of repairs for all locomotive series
• PM Replication to the other enterprises of the Belarusian Railway.