CIL invites tender for Rs 686 cr ERP project

To improve IT infrastructure and information flow from mines, Coal India (CIL) today invited bids from IT companies for a Rs 686-crore project to implement a Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution across its mines.

CIL currently operates 471 mines in 21 major coalfields across eight states in India, including 163 open cast mines, 273 underground mines and 35 mixed mines (both open cast and underground mines).

CIL would use the solution developed by German IT company, SAP AG.

The technical bids would be opened on December 28, tender documents said.

The implementation of the ERP solution would help CIL to reduce operational costs and improve labour productivity as its existing IT infrastructure is outdated with several shortcomings, the tender document detailing the requirement of the project said.

Currently, many of the mines don't have network connectivity and CoalNet- the existing ERP application doesn't support operations like e-auction and truck dispatch system among others, the document said.