Infor LN implementation at Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant was recognised as “Best IT project of the year”

April 23, 2014 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Moscow, the 3rd annual Award Ceremony of the Financial Directors of Russia, organized by the Adam Smith Institute, took place. The Russian CFO Awards are attended by Russian and international companies operating in the Russian Federation.

In the nomination “Best IT project of the year”, the award was given to the project of introducing an integrated enterprise automation system based on Infor LN, implemented by IPL Consulting at Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant.

An independent jury praised the successful implementation of the enterprise resource management system ERP Infor LN (software solution for the automation of industrial enterprises with discrete and Engineer to order production). An automated system for monitoring the processes of foundry and assembly of carts and wagons implemented at Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant was presented at the prize.

Oleg Voloshin, IT Director at Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant took part in the award ceremony.

Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant – is a leading new generation freight cars manufacturer in the CIS countries. The plant is considered to be one of the most large-scale objects in the European machine building industry on the amount of investment, production facilities and high-technology capacity.

Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant  is the manufacturing center of the railway holding United Wagon Company.

About RPC “United Wagon Company” 

Research and Production Corporation “United Wagon Company” (RPC UWC) is one of the leaders in innovative railcar building in the territory of “1520 gauge”. The railway holding is an integrated provider of services in manufacturing, transportation, operating leasing, engineering and maintenance of freight cars with advanced technical and economic features.

Refer to website www.uniwagon.com for details.