Local healthcare company Netcare is on track with its R100 million deployment of a SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, with some centres already having gone live, says CIO Kris Tokarzewski.
"Netcare is a very large organisation - so naturally we are going live with different modules at different points in time," he says.
Tokarzewski admits Netcare has had to "revisit" some of its plans, but insists it is on track for the staggered roll-out it has been planning since news first surfaced of this deployment last year.
Netcare deployed SAP Financials in June across the entire Medicross group, the head office and Netcare 911. SAP Financials will also be rolled out throughout the hospital group during 2007.
"Omni, our pharmaceutical warehouse and distribution centre, went live last month," he adds.
"However, the heart of the business is only going live next year," he notes, explaining that Netcare`s core functions (patient administration and billing) are set for pilot early in 2007.
He says while the pilots at one hospital and one Medicross clinic will start in March, roll-out will begin only "when we are comfortable with it".
"It will take us a couple of years to deploy it throughout all our points of care - Netcare`s 50 hospitals and 120 clinics."
Tokarzewski says a benefit realisation committee is monitoring the expected financial savings from the SAP deployment, explaining that the return on investment model is "a living document" that evolves as the business migrates to a new platform.
Because of this, and the confidential nature of predicting cost savings, no figures are available on the expected return on investment in deploying SAP, he notes.
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