ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Collaborates with IBM for Cloud-Powered Transformation

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel ­– two of the world’s leading steelmakers – has collaborated with IBM Consulting to reinvent mission-critical processes in order to boost agility and efficiency with digital transformation.

Through its business units in India, Indonesia, and Dubai, AM/NS India, an integrated flat steel manufacturer with over 600 steel grades, services numerous sectors and important markets. The company realized that its key business processes would need the essential scalability and flexibility to sustain growth as capacity expansion plans got under way.

AM/NS India used IBM Consulting’s cloud-powered business transformation capabilities and extensive knowledge of the important Indian metals and mining sector to accomplish this goal. By doing this, AM/NS India hopes to realize its main goal of redefining itself as a data-driven company.

In order to move the existing data and applications of AM/NS India, Dubai, and Indonesia based on earlier SAP platforms into a single SAP S/4HANA instance, IBM Consulting used its IBM Rapid Move for SAP S/4HANA strategy. As a result, AM/NS India would benefit from the more recent functionalities of the contemporary platform and be able to realize value more quickly. Additionally, IBM Consulting has updated the enterprise architecture and current solutions using a change management strategy to address a number of crucial business-related pain points.

“In today’s rapidly changing environment, the steel industry is now realizing the efficacy of digital solutions for future success,” stated Amit Harlalka, Chief Financial Officer of ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India). “Since its beginning, AM/NS India has been a technology adoption leader. We want to create a Digital Core Platform for AM/NS India by working with IBM Consulting for SAP S/4 HANA. This effort will give us the necessary operational flexibility and financial transparency to guide us through the next critical stage of growth while setting an example for the sector,” he added.