ERP encourages our employees to balance office work with physical activity by offering an official salary bonus to all employees who sign statements indicating that they work out at a gym, sports club or swimming pool no less than twice a week.  Additional bonuses are offered to employees who actively participate in our corporate sports teams, e.g. ERP’s Floorball Team.

We also encourage our employees to reduce their risks of heart disease, cancer and other serious illnesses by giving up tobacco use entirely.  We recognise the rights of non-smokers to a smoke-free environment and all of ERP’s offices in all of our locations are strictly non-smoking.  At the same time, we also recognise the rights of our smoking employees, who are provided with appropriate smoking areas, away from our non-smoking workforce.  Employees who do not smoke now receive an official on-going pay bonus.  Additionally, current smokers who quit will not only receive on-going bonus pay, but a one-off bonus for quitting.

In terms of occupational health and safety, ERP is organising periodic workshops and seminars on how our employees can help ensure a safe and healthy working environment, starting with statutory occupational health and safety issues and running to stress reduction workshops.

This programme has been implemented as part of ERP’s overall commitment to our workforce and to being an Employer of Choice in the markets in which we work.

As our project portfolio grows, ERP will continuously update our registration information on this database of consulting firms to allow borrowing countries to better understand our unique position to provide quality services in the institutional capacity building, public revenue collection management, social security financial management, treasury and budget management, postal services, e-Government and public safety areas.

Microsoft Business Solutions Competency – Specialisation Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Proven competency in deploying Microsoft business management solutions focused on financial management, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. Financial and supply chain management applications:

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Microsoft Navision).

Mobility Solutions Competency

Proven competency in developing and deploying Windows Mobile-based solutions and applications using Microsoft tools and software. This includes Mobility independent software vendors, systems integrators, Mobility custom application developers, consultants, and mobile solutions resellers.

Network Infrastructure Solutions Competency

Proven competency in crafting small to midsize business infrastructure solutions that include server solutions based on either the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, the Windows 2000 operating system.

Business Process and Integration Solutions Competency

Proven proficiency in implementing and deploying business process applications featuring:

• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI);
• Business-to-business application integration(B2B);
• Business Process Management (BPM);
• Adapter Development.

Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Competency

Proven skill and expertise in the following specialization:

• Storage Solutions.

Custom Developed Solutions Competency

Proven competency in providing custom-developed solutions in the following specializations:

• Application Infrastructure Development ;
• Web Development.

Data Management Solutions Competency

Proven competency in implementing solutions in the following specializations:

• Business Intelligence;
• Database Management.

These additional certified competencies make ERP’s service offerings on the Microsoft platform all the more attractive to current and potential clients.  As the services markets in ERP’s countries of operations evolve, customers more and more are looking to firms who have proven track records, manufacturer recognised competence and the ability to deliver solid, dependable and flexible solutions.

Recognition of ERP’s unique competence in the abovementioned areas set us ahead of our competition in all of the markets in which we work.

During the first six months of 2007, ERP has already invested over 152.000 LTL in 52 training programmes for our team of professionals.  This includes specialised training in SAP, EMC Documentum, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Oracle.  It also includes training and certification of seven new project managers, training in finance and accounting, HR and strategic management.

In addition to continuing education, a sizeable percentage of ERP’s Vilnius office staff has completed graduate and post-graduate degrees in the first half of 2007, including a PhD in workflow, and our team boasts an additional three doctoral candidates in fields relating to our business.  ERP will continue to offer tuition benefits to our staff with the aim of increasing their overall qualifications.

Our goal is to continue to hold our market-leader position by having the most highly-trained and capable team of professionals in the Baltics.  This large-scale investment in continuing education of our employees will help ensure that we reach that goal.

Additionally the portal provides a strong basis for further implementation of E-Government services at the Ministry of Finance, leveraging EMC Documentum’s secure, stable and standards-compliant platform.  This marks the second state portal in Lithuania implemented using the EMC Documentum platform.

The URL of this new portal is www.finmin.lt.

In terms of paper consumption, conservation measures including transferring as many transactions as possible into purely electronic form, combined with in-house recycling of office paper has allowed us to reduce overall consumption of paper dramatically, as compared with 2006. 

While our overall number of staff has increased by 20% since December 2006, we have successfully reduced our overall paper consumption by 24%.  Paper use per employee has dropped by 37%.

Steps taken to reduce solid waste production, not including reducing office paper consumption, include:

• Recycling of newsprint and other printed paper;
• Replacement of single-use plastic cups with glass and paper;
• Ensuring that obsolete or non-functional computers and electronic components are delivered to authorised electronic waste processing centres.

To reduce the energy and carbon impact of our operations, ERP has taken active steps to ensure that:

• Our corporate automobiles are all less than five years old and are equipped with fuel conservation and catalytic conversion equipment;
• Office equipment is fully shut down at the close of business, e.g. not leaving PCs in standby mode;
• Air conditioning usage in our offices is limited to holding a temperature of 21 degrees Centigrade;
• International travel is limited to the bare minimums needed to ensure business operations; and
• International travel, where possible, is done using eco-friendly airlines, using modern aircraft.

Our international SAP competence centre in Vilnius will support operations not only in the Baltics, but also in our subsidiary firms LLC „ERP“ in Ukraine, LLC „ERP-Kazakhstan“ and JSC „ERP-Latvia.“

These new offices, located on the 26th floor of the prestigious Europa business centre in Vilnius also offer new facilities to our Research & Innovations Division, which is devoted to new product development.