Complex Solution with the Participation of Fornax SI – SAP installation at Volán Successors

Midwest Hungarian Traffic Center (MHTC), the successor company of Vértes Volán and Alba Volán, introduced a uniform, integrated IT system. The company covering 3.5 million kilometers and transporting 7.3 million passengers a month is expecting an efficient support of its operation from the SAP management information system. The business-specific solution costs 78 million HUF, and was realized within a centralized ublic procurement process.

After the two Volán companies merged into MHTC the creation of a new IT concept was needed. As a result the company with a headcount of more than 1500 has a clear, unified picture of every detail of its operation. Moreover, the management information system enables the planning of the maintenance and the administration of the 530 buses, the uniform handling of invoices, the wire transfers and the support of measurement of capacity usage. At the company working with thousands of partners the processing of invoices will become quicker and more controlled, and revenue and expenditure will be trackable on a daily basis. With the advanced analytic features various reports will be easier to obtain, the company strategy will be easier to draft by the leaders of the departments.

A professional team of cooperating experts worked on the SAP installation at MHTC, most of the team members have been working on similar projects together for almost 20 years. Employees of Fornax worked following a project management strategy based on almost 20 years of experience, and they applied the consistent project management methodology developed by SAP at the said project of MHTC as well, a methodology certified by the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge Fourth Edition of the Project Management Institute.

This standard regulates topics such as integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communication, risk and procurement. The project management methodology mentioned improves effectiveness and decreases risks while maintaining costs. Moreover, planning ahead guarantees that progress can be tracked at all times, so in case of arising problems project members can react more efficiently by immediate appropriate measures when necessary.

PMI is a world leader professional non-profit organization in the area of project management, and has a globally leading role in the development of the standards of project management practices.

During the work of Fornax experts project management methodology is closely connected with the implementation roadmap, the SAP installation method – the so-called ASAP7 implementation methodology – and the assets (Solution Manager). This methodology triplet is the key to the expert team of Fornax to deliver the MHTC SAP installation project on time and complying with the quality requirements.