OREANDA-NEWS. The laureates of the Project of the Year 2013 contest were presented diplomas in the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. KAMAZ's project “The Introduction of the Advanced Planning & Scheduling system - SAP” became the best.

The Project of the Year contest was held by Russian IT managers' official portal Global CIO with the support of professional associations SoDIT, APKIT, NP RUSSOFT, RASPO and the Skolkovo Innovation Center from September 2013 to January 2014. According to the rules of the contest, all nominated projects were assessed directly by managers of IT services via an internet-voting system using a method offered by an IT community of the Global CIO portal. More than 250 projects from Russia and CIS countries were submitted to the commission this year. 133 projects were selected to participate in the voting. IT directors, participants of the Global CIO portal gave their votes for the best solutions participating in the competition.

Microtest - the leader of the Russian market of system integration and consulting in the most difficult projects - became an IT supplier of the project to KAMAZ. The project started in February 2008 and finished in 2013. Its main aims to increase turnover of inventories, reduce the volume of reserve stores and work-in-progress, enhance transparency and manageability of job-order production were achieved. The project also reduced production losses and idle time of production lines, ensured continuous rolling scheduling, increased manageability of production and, in the long run, improved the quality of KAMAZ vehicles.