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With two of the continent’s most
ambitious industrial projects underway, Nigeria’s Dangote Group has
achieved the seemingly-impossible with an SAP-led digital transformation
that was completed in record time.
“We want our Refinery to be not just the largest single train
Refinery in the world but also the most modern and smart Refinery with the
latest state-of-the-art technologies like SAP S4HANA 1909,” said Group
Executive Director, Dangote Group, Mr. Devakumar Edwin.
According to Ramakrishna Potluri, Head – IT & Business
Applications (Refinery), the Dangote Refinery and Fertiliser strategic business
units upgraded their SAP landscape to SAP S/4HANA 1909 in mere six days. “The
upgrade affected all three systems landscapes – development, quality assurance
and production environments – and required excellent collaboration between the
Dangote internal SAP Centre of Excellence team and the SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud teams. Despite being spread across four continents and three time zones,
the project teams managed to work round the clock to achieve a full upgrade
within six business days. The upgrade is important for our Oil & Gas
businesses to enable with SAP’s latest IS-Oil industry solution.”
The Dangote Group is
currently constructing the World’s largest single train Oil Refinery in the
Lekki Free Zone near Lagos. The refinery will process up to 650,000 barrels
of oil per day to produce 10.4 million tons of gasoline, 4.6 million tons of
diesel and four million tons of jet fuel per year.
Commissioning of the Dangote Fertilizer plant is currently in
its final stages in Lagos at the same location as the refinery. Once completed,
it will be the largest in the world, with capacity for three million tons of
fertiliser a year, enough to meet all domestic demand.
“This project required exceptional levels of support and
collaboration and was driven by a highly-skilled and diverse team of
specialists,” said Managing Director, SAP Central Africa, Pedro Guerreiro.
He added: “through an on-going commitment to customer success during all stages of the implementation, the team was also able to help Dangote take major steps toward achieving their intelligent enterprise ambitions. The new system landscape will support the growth of these vital strategic business units for years to come.”
