Transport for London (TfL) and London Underground have signed a
10-year £29m partnership with SAP and integrator Axon to update the
capital's transport IT infrastructure.
Axon will replace 30 back office systems, including six HR and 20
finance packages from TfL's constituent bodies with a single
integrated SAP system. Axon chief executive officer Mark Hunter
said the project "represents one of the largest business
transformation programs in the transport sector today".
TfL manages the capital's buses, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
and Croydon Tramlink. London Underground will become part of TfL
this year.
Axon will design and implement a complete integrated business
system based on mySAP.com covering the finance, procurement, HR and
reporting requirements for 20,000 TfL users.
The system will incorporate SAP's latest Portal, eBusiness and
Transport components and the rollout will begin in the first
quarter of this year.
"The introduction of the new integrated system will lead to a
business change across the Transport for London organisations and
that will dramatically improve our efficiencies and benefit all of
London's commuters and visitors," said TfL managing director,
finance and planning Jay Walder.
Simon Etherington, account manager for service industries SAP UK,
said: "This project will set the standard for best practice in
integrated business processes within the transport sector. It is
also one of the first European implementations of our most advanced
product, SAP 4.7"
TfL faces one of its biggest IT challenges yet when congestion
charging is introduced to central London next month.