The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has launched e-procurement portal which will start service procurement such as open tender and global tender soon, a BSP press release informed on Wednesday.
The portal had been named ‘Supplier Relationship Management’ (SRM-7) and will be an e-Procurement portal with a publication of first limited tender for Material procurement.
The portal was inaugurated jointly by K S S Kanhaiya, General Manager (MM) and Arun Kumar, Deputy General Manager I/c (C&IT).
In his address during the launch function, K.C.Misra, DGM (Purchase) highlighted the various aspects of SRM-7.
He informed that SRM-5 has been replaced by SRM-7 with Digital Signature & encryptions facilities and will be extended to Services Procurement very soon. The imports procurement through this shall be completely a new system.
At present the SRM-7 system is being launched for e-procurement through restricted tendering system. He emphasised that all the other functionalities of SRM-7 like Open Tender and Global tender shall be started in the coming few days, he said.
S.K. Bhardwaj DGM (C&IT) stressed on the need of digital signature & encryption in e-procurement for enhancement of data security which is emphasised by CVC also.
He asserted that “Bhilai Steel Plant has always stood up to the expectation in all facets of integration and will continue to do so in future”.
Project leads of SAP labs India, Venkateshwara Rao Chava, Delivery lead and Subhankar Chattopadhyay Program Manager also shared their views on digitization and congratulated BSP for this achievement.
K S S Kanhaiya, GM(MM), acknowledged and appreciated the efforts made by Team BSP and SAP and expressed his faith in team to meet the upcoming challenges and extend technical support to end users.