L&T wins ERP projects from Railways

L&T Infotech has won two important turnkey ERP projects for computerizing the
maintenance of rolling assets of the Indian Railways. The end-to-end system
integration (SI) projects were conceptualized and tendered by the Center for
Railway Information System (CRIS). Under these projects, L&T Infotech would be
deploying the ERP software and the underlying hardware for automating the
maintenance of the two major rolling assets of the Indian Railways. These
include, the wagon fleet which carries their freight traffic and diesel
locomotives which haul their freight and passenger trains.

The execution of these projects will involve creation of two centralized ERP-based
applications: The Freight Maintenance Management (FMM) for management of
freight/wagon depots; and Loco-Shed Management System (LMS) for management of
diesel locomotive sheds. Wagon Maintenance Depots are the front line units for
the maintenance of wagons and diesel locomotive sheds.

The projects include installation and commissioning; and multi-year ongoing
support of hardware and systems in the implementation. The work involves
establishing central datacenter infrastructure, providing LAN at three sheds,
and supply, installation and commissioning of hardware and networking equipment.