Headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, Vectus Industries Limited is a provider of Pipe and Water Storage solution that manufactures various kinds of plastic moulded articles for agricultural and household purposes.

The Beginning
The following is the snapshot scenario upon my joining
No IT Department
No Handover,
No Documentation,
IT Team Size-4 People,
Locations – 28,
IT Security- Zero,
LAN/WAN Infra- Full of Viruses,
Email Server- Always Blacklisted
Server Downtime- 4 hours Daily,
Invoice Time- 15 Minutes/Invoice
Usual User Hours at Work- 14

The Strategies & Planning
The strategy followed: First 20 days of my job I personally audited the following each area of business supported by IT. I prepared an honest report and submitted it to the management in the following parts: Existing Scenario & Gaps, Projects to be done in first 90 days,
Resources Required.

I prepared budget for the tasks and got it approved by my management. The best part was management understood my vision and assured me of budget and their support at times when it
was required. The toughest part was to stream line existing legacy application as lot of stakeholders were involved in application delivery such as developer, internal IT Team, Internal Infra, ISP For internet and MPLS, Data centre. These stakeholders have designed the server application delivery architecture.
That was a bench mark as on year closing day of March 31, 2015 the server uptime was 100 percent without a signal restart and last day sales touched 5.6 Cr. which was a record in last 7 year. End users working hours also got reduced from 14 hours to 8 hours as standard. So finally IT department got his recognition and confidence back at management & end users level across nation.

But this was not happy ending, another big challenge was in store for me when management posed their vision to for the year 2019- As this is its major responsibility shift for any corporate if they plan to go as public limited company. I discussed with management and we jointly formed a vision: To have a world class ERP infrastructure which will ensure a robust control over financial reporting and build confidence of all stake holders through better monitoring of assets, optimum utilization of resources and complete adherence to compliance.
So we zeroed in over SAP

Project Recharge
The real litmus test started the first challenge I faced to decide the project name, I gave it a name called "RECHARGE" as I wanted to register this name in every BPO, Core User and End User's mind. So I wanted to use power of subconscious mind of people to create a wave , a synergy when they work in the project or even if they are outside the office they should have something back in their mind as RECHARGE.
The Learning's Time Savers- RFP-
The RFP we prepared to invite Hardware Proposal/Implementation Partner/Collocation Proposals for Data centre. These helped us a lot for time saving and it gave us chance to revisit our terms and conditions.

Licensing
Till Blue Printing Stage we analyzed that we could have a short fall of professional users. We had limited man power and they were multi tasking so there was a requirement of more professional users rather than worker user.

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