It adds that GSL was facing "rought weather", and notes that shipbuilding is a competitive industry with the GSL's prime customer, the Indian Navy, increasingly awarding contracts via a competitive bidding process.
Quote: "This put GSL in a situation where it faced competition from other shipyards both in India and abroad."
Express Computer argues that while the public sector GSL <http://www.goashipyard.co.in/index.asp> "had the requisite IT infrastructure in place, its IT systems existed as islands with no bridges to connect, exchange and analyse data. Its home-grown systems supported business processes such as procurement, finance, stores and payroll; as these systems were not integrated, project analysis was extremely difficult."
GSL decided to go in for an ERP solution from SSA Global <http://www.baan.com/> with Godrej Infotech <http://www.godrejinfotech.com/> as the implementation partner.
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